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Free-Floating Car-Share Program - Increase Access to the Number of Permits

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The decision

2023-11-08 · Toronto City Council · amended

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City Council on November 8 and 9, 2023, adopted the following: 1. City Council authorize up to 1000 Free-Floating Car-Share parking permits be issued to a car-share organization/company on a first-come, first-served basis. 2. City Council amend City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 925, Permit Parking, as follows: a. by deleting from Section 925-5.1 A(2) the number "500" and inserting the number "1000"; and b. by deleting from Section 925-5.1 B(5) the number "500" and inserting the number "1000".

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3. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the necessary bills to give effect to City Council's decision and City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make any necessary clarifications, refinements, minor modifications, technical amendments, or by-law amendments as may be identified by the City Solicitor or General Manager, Transportation Services in order to give effect to Parts 1 and 2, above. 4. City Council direct the General Manager of Transportation Services to evaluate opportunities to make free-floating shared cars available to people throughout the city where on-street permit parking exists, or off-street parking opportunities exist, or in legal locations established through the Community Council, and to report back to the May 2, 2024 meeting of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee. 5. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services inform all car-share organizations applying for City of Toronto permits under the Free-Floating Car-Share or Car-Share Vehicle Parking Area programs of the City's climate goal of being net-zero by 2040 and the need to reduce the number of gas-powered vehicles on Toronto's streets.

The vote

Amend Item · Lost (tie), 3-3

For (3)Amber Morley, Dianne Saxe, Mike Colle
Against (3)Anthony Perruzza, James Pasternak, Jennifer McKelvie
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As the city filed it

The purpose of this report is to seek City Council approval to increase the number of free-floating car-share permits an individual car-share organization / company can acquire under the free-floating car-share program. The current program allows individual companies to purchase a maximum of five hundred (500) free-floating car-share permits out of the total two thousand (2000) permits made available by the City of Toronto.

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If approved, individual companies would be able to acquire up to one thousand (1000) free-floating car-share permits each on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Staff recommended

The General Manager, Transportation Services recommends that: 1. City Council authorize up to 1000 Free-Floating Car-Share parking permits be issued to a car-share organization / company on a first-come, first-serve basis. 2. City Council amend City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 925, Permit Parking, as follows: a. by deleting from Section 925-5.1 A(2) the number "500" and inserting the number "1000"; and b. by deleting from Section 925-5.1 B(5) the number "500" and inserting the number "1000".

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3. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the necessary bills to give effect to City Council's decision and City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make any necessary clarifications, refinements, minor modifications, technical amendments, or by-law amendments as may be identified by the City Solicitor or General Manager, Transportation Services, in order to give effect to Recommendations 1 and 2, above.

Considered

  • 2023-10-25 · Infrastructure and Environment Committee · amended

    Decision as filed

    The Infrastructure and Environment Committee recommends that: 1. City Council authorize up to 1000 Free-Floating Car-Share parking permits be issued to a car-share organization / company on a first-come, first-serve basis. 2. City Council amend City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 925, Permit Parking, as follows: a. by deleting from Section 925-5.1 A(2) the number "500" and inserting the number "1000"; and b. by deleting from Section 925-5.1 B(5) the number "500" and inserting the number "1000".

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    3. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the necessary bills to give effect to City Council's decision and City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make any necessary clarifications, refinements, minor modifications, technical amendments, or by-law amendments as may be identified by the City Solicitor or General Manager, Transportation Services, in order to give effect to Recommendations 1 and 2, above. 4. City Council direct the General Manager of Transportation Services to evaluate opportunities to make free floating shared cars available to people throughout the city. 5. City Council request that the General Manager, Transportation Services, inform all car-share organizations applying for City of Toronto permits under the Free-Floating Car-Share or Car-Share Vehicle Parking Area programs, of the City's climate goal of being net-zero by 2040 and the need to reduce the number of gas-powered vehicles on Toronto's streets.

  • 2023-11-08 · Toronto City Council · amended

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