Proposed Upper Avenue Business Improvement Area Poll Results

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2025-03-26 · Toronto City Council · amended

As filed

City Council on March 26 and 27, 2025, adopted the following: 1. City Council designate, based on the poll results respecting the intention to designate the Upper Avenue Business Improvement Area, the area described by Attachment 1 to the report (February 10, 2025) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, as the Upper Avenue Business Improvement Area, under the Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas.

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2. City Council direct the City Solicitor to submit a by-law to designate the area described in Attachment 1 to the report (February 10, 2025) from the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, as the Upper Avenue Business Improvement Area. 3. City Council amend Schedule A of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas, to include the Upper Avenue Business Improvement Area. 4. City Council request the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, in consultation with the City Clerk, to review opportunities to improve the process for notifying business tenants of the polling process and other aspects required for the establishment of new Business Improvement Areas, and to report back to the Economic and Community Development Committee by the first quarter of 2026.

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As the city filed it

The purpose of this report is to recommend that the area shown in Attachment 1 be designated as the Upper Avenue Business Improvement Area. In accordance with the Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas, the City Clerk conducted a poll to determine if there is sufficient support to designate the area as the Upper Avenue Business Improvement Area. The proposed Business Improvement Area is the area along Avenue Road from Lawrence Avenue West to Joicey Boulevard and connecting side streets.

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The City received the required benchmark number of ballots to validate the poll and the majority of accepted ballots were in favour of establishing a Business Improvement Area. Accordingly, it is recommended that City Council pass a by-law to designate the area described in Attachment 1 as the Upper Avenue Business Improvement Area. Subject to Council's approval, this will be the City's eighty-sixth Business Improvement Area.

Staff recommended

The General Manager, Economic Development and Culture recommends that: 1. City Council designate, based on the poll results respecting the intention to designate the Upper Avenue Business Improvement Area, the area described by Attachment 1 as the Upper Avenue Business Improvement Area, under the Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas. 2. City Council direct the City Solicitor to submit a by-law to designate the area described in Attachment 1, as the Upper Avenue Business Improvement Area.

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3. City Council approve those amendments necessary to Schedule A of the Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas, to include the Upper Avenue Business Improvement Area.

Considered

2025-02-26 · Economic and Community Development Committee · forwarded without recommendation
Decision as filed
The Economic and Community Development Committee forwards the item to City Council without recommendation.
2025-03-26 · Toronto City Council · amended

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