Item - 2025.NY22.24

North York Community Council:

1. Designated the areas in Ward 17 as a designated area with an associated speed limit of 30 kilometres per hour, with the exception of specified excluded highways or bridges, and amend the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 950, Traffic and Parking, generally as outlined in Attachment 1 to the report (March 17, 2025) from the Director, Planning, Design and Management.

This staff report is about speed limit reductions for which Community Council has delegated authority to make a final decision, provided that it is not amended so that it varies with City policy or by-laws.

The Vision Zero Road Safety Plan Speed Management Strategy focuses on how higher speeds contribute to higher risk of serious injuries and fatalities, and that setting lower speed limits is a key tool for reducing operating speeds on Toronto's roadways.

The Vision Zero Speed Management Strategy includes a program for reducing speed limits on local roads, as defined in the City's Road Classification System, and public lanes or public alleys, to 30 kilometres per hour , on a neighbourhood basis. With this approach the City is no longer required to sign every individual street within that designated area, but only the entry and exit points to / from the designated area where speed limits change and any internal roads with a different speed limit.

At it’s meeting on November 8, 2023, City Council authorized the inclusion of collector roads within designated areas with a speed limit of 30 kilometres per hour under section 950-701 of City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 950, Traffic and Parking. 

The purpose of this report is to recommend area-based speed limit reductions to 30 kilometres per hour on public lanes or public alleys, local roads, and existing 30 kilometres per hour collector roads in North York Community Council area as part of the Vision Zero Road Safety Plan, Speed Management Strategy.