foreword - City of Pickering

City of Pickering January 2003
Community Safety Zones
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1.0 POLICY STATEMENT
The purpose of this policy is to provide an established guideline to regulate the installation of
Community Safety Zones in the City of Pickering. Community Safety Zones may prove to be an
effective method of targeting aggressive driving and improving safety, but their use should be
limited to justified locations where their presence will be regularly enforced and respected.
2.0 INTRODUCTION
Community Safety Zones are a new measure recently approved by the Ministry of
Transportation. The new regulation provides municipalities with the authority to designate and
sign a section of a street as a Community Safety Zone where Highway Traffic Act offences and
their resulting fines are effectively doubled.
Staff of the City of Pickering are presently investigating the merits of Community Safety Zones
in cooperation with the Regional Municipality of Durham and the area municipalities. A number
of Community Safety Zones have been installed on Regional Roads as trial studies, one of which
is located in Pickering on Whites Road (Regional Road 38), fronting St. Mary’s Catholic High
School, between Strouds Lane and Finch Avenue (Regional Road 37).
Until such time that the reviews of the trial Community Safety Zones are completed and a
recommendation drafted, no new Community Safety Zones should be installed in the City of
Pickering.
This policy and guideline will be forwarded for approval by City Council following the
completion of the trial review period.