Toronto council approves grace period for street parking & new priority neighborhoods
Posted April 4, 2014 7:38 am.
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After a lengthy final day of debate, Toronto city council approved a grace period for street parking and a new list of priority neighbourhoods.
The meeting, originally scheduled for two days, stretched until about 11 p.m. on Thursday, the third day of debate.
Council approved a 10-minute grace period for parking tickets at on-street pay-and-display spots.
Council also approved a revised list of priority neighbourhoods, now called strong neighbourhoods.
Those neighbourhoods are:
- Black Creek
- Glenfield-Jane Heights
- Mount Dennis
- Beechborough-Greenbrook
- Oakridge
- Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown
- Elms-Old Rexdale
- Regent Park
- Thorncliffe Park
- South Parkdale
- Crescent Town (recommended to be renamed Taylor-Massey)
- Rockcliffe-Smythe
- Scarborough Village
- Humber Summit
- Rustic
- Ionview
- Flemingdon Park
- Weston
- Humbermede
- Eglinton East
- Morningside
- Downsview-Roding-CFB
- West Hill
- York University Heights
- Woburn
- Thistletown-Beaumond Heights
- Keelesdale-Eglinton West
- Victoria Village
- Weston-Pellam Park
- Kingsview Village-The Westway
- Kennedy Park
