Item - 2022.MM41.16

City Council on March 9, 2022, adopted the following: 

1. City Council once again request Metrolinx to undertake an assessment of running the Ontario Line underground in the segment of the former Relief Line from Pape to the Don Yards, the elevated segment of the proposed Ontario Line that runs through the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood and the length of the Ontario Line from Eglinton East through the Flemingdon Community.

2. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services:

a. to report to the Toronto and East York Community Council meeting of April 21, 2022 with proposals for access routes and traffic mitigation measures for the construction of the Ontario Line, such report to include a list of conditions for any permits needed by Metrolinx for that project in Ward 14;

b. to include in the report in Part 2a above proposals for a mechanism to review right-of-way permits for lane or sidewalk occupations from 3rd party applicants in the vicinity of the Ontario Line project in Ward 14; and

c. in developing the report in Part 2a above to have the appropriate staff attend a public meeting held by the local Councillor, on the impacts on the City's right-of-way of the construction and assets of the proposed above ground section of the Ontario Line, and City Council direct that until the consultation is complete and reported to City Council, no right-of-way permits be issued for this project in Ward 14.

3. City Council request the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation to report to the Toronto and East York Community Council meeting of April 21, 2022 on proposals for a mechanism to review any and all tree removal proposals or permits in the vicinity of the Ontario Line project in Ward 14.  

4. City Council request the City Manager to provide an update report on the recommendations made by Council on October 1, 2021 as part of item MM36.48 to the May 4, 2022 meeting of the Executive Committee.

5. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services, the Executive Director, Transit Expansion, and the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation to have the appropriate staff attend the public meeting held by the local Councillor noted in Part 2 above, and City Council request the City Manager to request Metrolinx to immediately make public the interim Arborist Report for the Ontario Line it has submitted to Parks, Forestry and Recreation.