Item - 2020.MM16.8

City Council on February 26, 2020, adopted the following:

1.  City Council request the City Manager and Mayor John Tory to request an emergency meeting with the Provincial Minister of Transportation, Caroline Mulroney and the Metrolinx Board of Directors Chair, Donald Wright, for the purpose of helping small businesses encompassed within the 12 Business Improvement Areas along and adjacent to Eglinton Avenue survive given the Eglinton Crosstown Project has been delayed again; the purpose of this meeting is to request that the Province of Ontario and Metrolinx immediately implement an Eglinton Avenue Small Business survival plan that includes:

1.  an Eglinton Avenue small business recovery and sustainability compensation plan so remaining small business can keep their doors open through another 2 years of construction until the end of 2022;

2.  a report on the feasibility of phasing in the opening of the Eglinton Crosstown by separating out the portion of the Eglinton Crosstown from Mount Dennis Station to the Cedervale Station (Eglinton West), so that at minimum one section of the Eglinton Crosstown line is operational at an earlier date than sometime "well into 2022"; and

3.  an immediate construction equipment clean-up to remove as much as possible of the heavy equipment trailers from public sidewalks and road allowances, so that small businesses will no longer have their storefronts blocked and obstructed.