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Task Force on the Gardiner/Lakeshore Corridor.
The Urban Environment and Development Committee recommends that Council encourage the existing Task Force on the Gardiner/Lakeshore Corridor to continue to meet pending the outcome of the review of its mandate and composition by the Special Committee to Review the Final Report of the Toronto Transition Team.
The Urban Environment and Development Committee reports, for the information of Council, having:
(1) deferred consideration of the communication (October 3, 1997) from the Assistant City Clerk of Toronto until its next meeting, scheduled to be held on February 9, 1998; and
(2) requested the Interim Functional Lead for Transportation to submit a report thereon to the February 9, 1998, meeting of the Urban Environment and Development Committee, and to make a brief presentation at such meeting regarding the dismantling of the eastern portion of the F. G. Gardiner Expressway to the Committee.
Background:
The Urban Environment and Development Committee on January 12, 1998, had before it the following communications:
(i) (October 3, 1997) from the Assistant City Clerk of Toronto advising that the Council of the City of Toronto on September 22 and 23, 1997, amended and adopted Clause No. 1 of Report No. 8 of The Economic Development Committee, entitled "Economic Benefits of the Dismantling of the Gardiner Expressway"; and, in so doing:
(1) recommended that the Council of the new City of Toronto make the creation of a plan dealing with the Gardiner/Lakeshore Corridor a priority and create a broad-based process to move the planning forward, including funding to ensure this work;
(2) recommended that a Task Force on the Gardiner/Lakeshore Corridor, similar to the one presently in place at the City of Toronto, be created by the new City of Toronto, including appropriate staff support and an operating budget;
(3) requested the new City of Toronto Council to ensure full public participation on the impact of dismantling of the Gardiner Expressway, by instituting full public meetings in the community east of Leslie Street; and
(4) reiterated the vital importance of the Gardiner/Lakeshore Corridor to the GTA's economy, and requested that every possible effort be made to ensure that traffic capacity not be lost in the transition period if and when the Gardiner Expressway is removed.
(ii) (January 9, 1998) from Councillor Tom Jakobek, Toronto - East Toronto, requesting the Urban Environment and Development Committee to defer consideration of the communication referred to in (i) above to the next meeting of the Committee in order to allow deputations thereon from the community.
The following persons appeared before the Urban Environment and Development Committee in connection with the foregoing matter:
- Mr. James Alcock, Toronto;
- Mr. Eli Ophek, Toronto; and also filed a copy of a submission dated February 3, 1997, to the Minister of Environment and Energy from the Toronto Bay Group requesting an Individual Environmental Assessment for the F. G. Gardiner Expressway East; and
- Councillor Jack Layton, Toronto - Don River.
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