A Strategic Parking Framework for the City of Toronto

3. City Council delete Policy Action C2.1, to "Introduce rates to all City-owned off-street parking lots that currently provide free public parking, including parks, community centres, libraries, and arenas," from the Strategic Parking Framework in Attachment 1 to the report (May 28, 2025) from the General Manager, Transportation Services. 4. City Council direct the General Manager, Transportation Services, in consultation with the President, Toronto Parking Authority, relevant Business Improvement Areas and other local stakeholders, to develop a pilot project on improved parking signage and report back to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee by the fourth quarter of 2025 with design options and recommendations to implement the pilot project. 5. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services to work with the Toronto Police Service and the Toronto Parking Authority to develop additional options for temporary visitor parking permits in areas that already allow permit parking, including proof of payment options which do not require printing, and report by fourth quarter of 2025 on this work. 6. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services, in collaboration with the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning and the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, to work with Toronto Parking Authority to determine how to create City parking capacity in new areas of density to support economic development and visitors and, in consultation with local councillors, identify areas where it is needed with a report back to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee by the third quarter of 2026. 7. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services to: a. implement additional accessible parking spaces by: i. integrating accessible parking considerations into all analyses and decision-making related to the provision, removal, or reconfiguration of on-street parking spaces; and ii. establishing guidelines to create a standardized minimum threshold - either a fixed number or percentage - of accessible parking spaces to be provided within any curbside parking zone; b. present the guidelines to the Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee at its December 11, 2025 meeting. 8. City Council request the Toronto Police Service Board to consider marked improvements to enforcement of parking, stopping and standing by-law, especially those that contribute to Vision Zero and to consider providing that information to City Council through a report to Infrastructure and Environment Committee by the first quarter of 2026. 9. City Council request the Toronto Police Service Board to establish a consistent policy that provides a grace period on religious holidays for vehicles parking near relevant religious institutions during and around religious services. 10. City Council request the Toronto Parking Authority board to request the President, Toronto Parking Authority, in consultation with the Director, Equity and Human Rights, to report in the first quarter of 2026 on the feasibility of extending free parking at other times of religious significance in addition to Sunday mornings. 11. City Council request the Parking Advisory Committee (PAC), which is composed of divisions and agencies who manage parking portfolios, to work with local Business Improvement Areas and/or local councillors to develop solutions to address parking needs and concerns.