Item - 2021.MM31.12

City Council on April 7 and 8, 2021, adopted the following:

1.  City Council express support for Save Jimmie Simpson and the Lakeshore East Community Advisory Committee’s request that the above ground section of the Ontario Line through Riverside and Leslieville be designated for a Federal Environmental Assessment pursuant to s. 9(1) of the Impact Assessment Act.

2.  City Council:

a. request the City Manager to provide City Council with the impacts on the City's infrastructure, social housing, as well as overall neighbourhood impacts related to shifting both tracks to the west side of GO tracks for the proposed 2 kilometre above ground section of the Ontario Line; and

b. request Metrolinx to review the feasibility of the proposed hybrid Ontario Line developed by the local community from the Don River to Gerrard Street which maintains the at-grade station at East Harbour and creates a portal to underground the line immediately to the east of the station through the South of Eastern employment area and moves the Ontario Line station to Queen and Carlaw in Leslieville immediately.

3.  City Council request the City Manager to provide an update on the status of the Metrolinx Subway Expansion Program to the Executive Committee by the third quarter of 2021.

4.  City Council request that a copy of this Motion be provided to the Honourable Caroline Mulroney, Minister of Transportation and the Honourable Jeff Yurek, Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks.

5.  City Council request that a copy of this Motion be provided to the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Federal Minister of the Environment and Climate Change and the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Federal Minister of Infrastructure and Communities.