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POR 2022-282
Policy Order Regarding Traffic Flow on Garden Street
How it started
Nov 7, 2022 · Proposed by Councillors Toner, Simmons, and Carlone: a formal request from the Council to the administration.
What happenedNov 14, 2022 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (unanimous)
Nov 7, 2022 · Held by charter right the city's note: “EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR SIMMONS”
Nov 14, 2022 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Paul F. Toner; carried 8–1.
POR 2022 #282 by substitution, copy attached. The amendment was shown on the screenThe clerk's words, from the minutes of Nov 14, 2022, p. 6.
Nov 14, 2022 · Amendment carried Moved by Vice Mayor Alanna Mallon; carried.
the first “ordered” by striking the words “including the feasibility of reverting to two way traffic on sections of Garden Street” and substituting “including the aforementioned changes, or other traffic calming or traffic diversion methods,”The clerk's words, from the minutes of Nov 14, 2022, p. 7.
Nov 14, 2022 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Patty Nolan; carried 6–2.
the second “Whereas” by adding at the end “yet many residents were not aware of the proposed changes until implementation; and”The clerk's words, from the minutes of Nov 14, 2022, p. 8.
Nov 14, 2022 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Patty Nolan; carried.
the first ordered by adding the words “short-term” before the word recommendationsThe clerk's words, from the minutes of Nov 14, 2022, p. 8.
Nov 14, 2022 · Amendment carried Moved by Councillor Quinton Zondervan; carried 9–0.
POR 2022 #282 by adding an additional “Ordered” to read: “That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to provide a final report on how the concerns are being addressed no later than March 27th, 2023.”The clerk's words, from the minutes of Nov 14, 2022.
View the roll call on the amendment
Voted yes (9)
Burhan Azeem
Dennis Carlone
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Patty Nolan
E. Denise Simmons
Paul F. Toner
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui
View the roll call
Voted yes (9), unanimous
- Burhan Azeem
- Dennis Carlone
- Alanna Mallon
- Marc McGovern
- Patty Nolan
- E. Denise Simmons
- Paul F. Toner
- Quinton Zondervan
- Sumbul Siddiqui
What’s next
⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.
The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page
O-1
WHEREAS: The recent change of part of Garden Street from a two way to a one-way street has caused concerns about overflow traffic on neighboring side streets; now therefore be it
ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the Traffic, Parking, and Transportation Department and Department of Public Works to meet with and receive input from residents living on the streets in the impacted area to discuss strategies to mitigate and reduce overflow and cut through traffic and report back to the Council on recommendations no later than March 27, 2023.
Public Comment (59)
59 written comments received (2022-11-14 – 2023-04-10). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.