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Number of Tickets Issued and Charges Laid Against Builders for Failure to Protect City Trees

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The decision

2019-10-02 · Toronto City Council · amended

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City Council on October 2 and 3, 2019, adopted the following: 1. City Council request the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation to report to the January 9, 2020 meeting of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee outlining the following for 2018 and the first three quarters of 2019: a. the number of proactive inspections; b. the number of sites where complaint-driven inspections took place and infractions were observed; c.

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the number of inspection fees charged on first and on second visits; d. the number of Orders to Comply issued; e. the number of Stop Work Orders issued; f. the number of Part 3 Summons issued; and g. recommendations on how these tools can be better utilized for tree protection. 2. City Council direct the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation to review the timeliness of response from the Compliance and Enforcement Unit to reports of possible tree by-law contraventions and report back on strategies to improve the average response time of five days and service standard of seven days. 3. City Council direct the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation to include additional details, such as the nature of tree by-law contraventions and the number issued per Ward, where feasible, in future quarterly reports to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee. 4. City Council receive the report (August 16, 2019) from the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation for information.

The vote

Amend Item (Additional) · Carried, 21-0

For (21)Ana Bailão, Anthony Perruzza, Brad Bradford, Cynthia Lai, Frances Nunziata, Gary Crawford, Gord Perks, Jaye Robinson, Jennifer McKelvie, Jim Karygiannis, Joe Cressy, John Filion, Josh Matlow, Kristyn Wong-Tam, Michael Ford, Michael Thompson, Mike Colle, Mike Layton, Paul Ainslie, Shelley Carroll, Stephen Holyday
Absent (5)Denzil Minnan-Wong, James Pasternak, John Tory, Mark Grimes, Paula Fletcher
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As the city filed it

This purpose of this report is to provide a response to the motion adopted by City Council at its meeting on May 22, 2018 requesting that the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation report quarterly to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee on the number of tickets issued and charges laid against builders for failure to protect City trees in Toronto. Urban Forestry's Compliance and Enforcement Unit does not issue tickets under the Provincial Offences Act.

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Instead Urban Forestry issues Orders to Comply under Chapter 813 Trees and Chapter 658 Ravine and Natural Feature Protection of the Municipal Code and requires payment of Contravention Inspection Fees in accordance with Chapter 441 of the Municipal Code. When the contravention is significant in nature or when voluntary compliance is not achieved, a Part 3 Summons under the Provincial Offences Act may be issued. This report provides details on the number of tree bylaw contravention complaints investigated, Orders to Comply issued and the number of Part 3 Summons served for the purposes of enforcement of the City's tree bylaws.

Staff recommended

The General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation recommends that: 1. City Council receive this report for information.

Considered

  • 2019-09-09 · Infrastructure and Environment Committee · adopted

    Decision as filed

    The Infrastructure and Environment Committee recommends that: 1. City Council receive the report (August 16, 2019) from the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation for information.

  • 2019-10-02 · Toronto City Council · amended

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