Roxborough Street West Parking

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Roxborough Street West is a residential street between two busy commercial areas, one on Yonge Street and one on Avenue Road, and abuts the popular and busy Ramsden Park. Local residents pay for parking permits, but experience severe difficulties finding parking spots in their permit area due to heavy cut-through traffic and to intense parking pressure from non-residents, who pay nothing to park on this street. About 30 homes have had no alternatives to on-street parking since the city expropriated their rear lane and added it to Ramsden Park.

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Some local residents would prefer significant expansion of "permit parking only" hours, but this could have an undue adverse effect on, for example, worshippers attending the busy Hare Krishna Temple at Roxborough and Avenue Road. Introducing paid on-street (Green P) parking is a fairer way to improve parking availability and turnover for both residents and non-residents, without adversely affecting parking permit holders. The recent introduction of Green P parking on nearby Berryman Street has successfully improved parking availability and turnover.

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Councillor Dianne Saxe recommends that: 1. Toronto and East York Community Council authorize the designation of a paid parking Mobile Only Zone on Roxborough Street West, between Yonge Street and Avenue Road, to operate from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday to Saturday and from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Sunday, for a maximum period of two hours at a rate of $6.75 per hour.

Roxborough Street West Parking

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