Transportation Committee

WHEREAS on-street parking along Elgin Street will be temporarily removed during the reconstruction of the street; and WHEREAS Elgin Street business owners have indicated that their customers, who come from across the city, will need access to nearby parking during construction; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT: 1. Staff work to provide opportunities for additional temporary public parking within close vicinity of Elgin Street during reconstruction; 2. That the General Manager, Public Works and Environmental Services be delegated the authority, during the time that Elgin is under construction, to designate dates and times when parking at City Hall will be free of charge; 3. That staff work with the business owners on Elgin Street during the construction period to co-ordinate advertising of the opportunities for temporary and for free public parking.

WHEREAS the Elgin Street redesign incorporates flexible space that can be used for different functions; and WHEREAS the number of parking spaces has been reduced with the street redesign; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the 90 flexible parking spaces be designed for the purpose of parking or patio use only.

WHEREAS Elgin Street is an important transportation, residential and commercial hub in the downtown core and this significant reconstruction activity will have a major, temporary impact on those who use the Elgin Street corridor as part of their daily transportation route whether they walk, cycle, drive or take public transit; and WHEREAS a number of other major construction projects are planned in the downtown core over the course of the same construction period (including the Metcalfe Street and King Edward Avenue Road Resurfacings, the Laurier Avenue East cycling lanes, the Kent Street Combined Sewer Storage Tunnel, and Catherine Street and Bronson Avenue renewal and resurfacing); and WHEREAS a comprehensive Traffic Management Plan, in concert with a detailed communications plan, was developed and implemented successfully for Ottawa on the Move to ensure that disruption to local and flow-through traffic was minimized during that lengthy construction period; and WHEREAS Members of Council want to ensure that the mitigation strategies related to the Elgin Street and Hawthorne Avenue reconstruction incorporate a broad understanding of construction in the area, the full range of traffic management tools that could be employed to assist with pedestrian, cycling, vehicle and public transit movement during construction, as well as the multi-modal impacts of each initiative and an appreciation that some may need to be changed quickly if they are not working as intended; and WHEREA