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are required to address the larger context and examine the implications for the
segment of the Avenue in which the development is located (i.e. through an
Avenue Segment Study).
An Avenue Segment Study is to assess the impacts of the incremental development
of the entire Avenue at a similar form, scale and intensity, appropriately allowing
for distinguishing circumstances. The analysis is required to consider impacts
on any adjacent Neighbourhoods or Apartment Neighbourhoods and address
whether the proposed development is supportable by available infrastructure. In
this regard, as set out in Section 5.3 of this report, an Avenue Segment Study
was undertaken by The Planning Partnership to assess the implications of the
proposed development on the segment of the Queen Street Avenue extending
from the Don Valley Parkway to Broadview Avenue.
Section 2.4 (“Bringing the City Together: A Progressive Agenda of Transportation
Change”) notes that:
“This Plan integrates transportation and land use planning at both
the local and regional scales . . . In addition to policies regarding
the physical infrastructure of the City’s transportation system, we
need complementary policies to make more efficient use of this
infrastructure and to support the goal of reducing car dependency
throughout the City . . . Achieving a more intense, mixed use pattern
of development will increase both the opportunity and the need to
plan for better pedestrian and cycling conditions. It will also minimize
the long term need for costly infrastructure, in the form of additional
transit and road capacity, to meet the City’s growing transportation
demands . . .”
In this regard, Map 5 (Surface Transit Priority Network, see Figure 5) identifies
Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue north of Queen Street as “Transit Priority
Segments”. Policy 2.2(3)(h) explains that the intent is to give streetcars signal
priority and to introduce other priority measures such as reserved or dedicated
lanes for streetcars and limiting or removing on-street parking during part or all of
the day.
Figure 5 - Official Plan Map 5 - Surface Transit Priority Network
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