ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE AGENDA Monday July 22, 2019 3:00 p.m. Granite Room Page 1

1. CALL TO ORDER

2. DECLARATIONS OF PECUNIARY INTEREST

3. DELEGATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

4. NEW BUSINESS

4.1. Downtown Core Bike Racks

4.2. Making Trails Accessible – Don Valley Brickworks (Reference Material Attached)

4.3. Waterfront Trail

4.4. Signage Installation

5. ONGOING BUSINESS

5.1. Simcoe-Muskoka Active School Travel Project

5.2. Active Transportation Projects

6. CORRESPONDENCE

Nil.

7. CLOSED SESSION

Nil.

8. RESOLUTIONS ARISING FROM CLOSED SESSION

Nil.

9. ADJOURNMENT

That Committee adjourn until the next scheduled meeting or any special meeting called by the Chair.

A copy of this agenda is available in alternative formats upon request. rQ5<(2)\ MEMORANDUM ~ Accessibility Advisory Commitee BRACEBRIDGE The Heart o{Muskoka

TO: C. O'Regan, Director of Recreation W. Schmidt, Director of Public Works Active Transportation Advisory Committee

FROM: A.Buie, Chair, Bracebridge Accessibility Advisory Committee

DATE: February 12, 2019

SUBJECT: Information Relating to Making Trails Accessible

A member of the Accessibility Advisory Committee shared this newsclipping pertaining to the work completed in to make the Don Valley Brick Works accessible. Thought it might be of interest.

A.Buie, Chair, Accessibility Advisory Committeee

CAOM001-17 Page 1. GT2 iTORONTO STAR SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2018 .• >>GREATER TORONTO The winding path to make a ravine accessible

Shawn Micallef 1 OPINION At long last Rosedale and the Don Valley are joined as they (almost) always were meant to be. The ChorleyPark switchback opened recently, providing an accessible, easy-to-navigate connection from the northeast corner ofRosedale down into Mud Creek ravine and con­ necting to the beside the Don Valley Brick Works. It does seemlike it was always meant to be, considering the amountof time this project has been in the works. In 2012, the Beltline Trail Strategy identi- fied a need for an accessible RICK MADONIK TORONTO STAR andsaferouteupanddownthe Chorley Park now has a new walking path, filled with switchbacks, as it leads from the park to the Don Valley Brick Works. ravine wall here. After initial public consultations were construction was underway. protest, delays and cost in­ you - lament actually-that The Evergreen Brick Works, undertaken, construction was They held signs that read, creases. Just imagine the extra unlike a building. which is one ofthe major destinations ready to begin in 2014, but soon ''This is crazy making John staff time devoted to their "done" pretty much the mo­ in the Valley, was equally hard "Stop ChorleyPark Switch- Tory" and ''No $13 million concerns. ment construction is complet­ to get to ifyou didn 't come by back" signs began appearing on superhighway in the park" It's As for what some residents ed, landscape designs take car. the mowed lawns ofRosedal e ironic, then, that protests called a "clear cut," this partic­ years and decades to grow into In 2016, the 28 Bayview bus mansions and McMansions.. drove up the cost ular slope, adjacent to what what might be considered from Davisville Station con­ The planwas too big and too In 2014, the budget for the was one ofthe DonValley's done. Trees and shrubs take nected to the BrickWorks. many trees were to be cut project was $14 million, but biggest industrial sites, was their time maturing. so there's Now, on top ofth e private down, were among the Rose- staffestimate the final number long a scrubby place and hardly often a naked look to new shuttle that runs to Broadview dale objectors concerns, and will be closer to $2 million, a forest Invasive trees, a threat projects, yet the switchback Station, the Rosedale 82 bus construction was halted. with an estimated $140,000 to the sensitive ravine ecosys­ already seems lush, even on an stops alongside Chorley Park City staff established a com- directly attributed to addition- tem, were removed for the overcast November day. and its riders can take the munityworking group and al consultation and redesign. project while endangered The slope of the path is long switchbackdown. held three additional public According to a city spokes- butternut trees were protect­ and smooth and will make it An interesting aspect ofthe meetings. They redesigned the person, some oftl1e cost in- ed. Very little, ifany, of our much easier for notj ust bikes switchback is the path that project to address some ofthe crease can also be attributed to ravines could be considered to access the valley but also leads th.rougil the park to ei­ resident concerns, including redesigning retainingwall s so "old growth" as much has been people pushing strollers and ther Douglas or Roxborough minimizing retaining walls, theywo n't be visible once reforested, often poorly. those using mobilitydevice s, Drs. follows the driveway and adding a natural-surface foot- vegetation grows out, adding a The switchback is a project of one ofthe main reasons for "moat'' bridge that are the only path to fit in with the natural staircase for people who don't the city ofToronto 's parks, this project in the first place. remaining traces ofthe mas­ setting. and adding a bioswale want to go back and forth on forestry and recreation depart­ Despite being seemingly every­ sive Frenclt Chateau-inspired to collect stormwater before it the switchback. and raising the ment,_who contracted out the where, Toronto ravines can be mansion that stood here, once reaclted the Beltline Trail Beltline Trail to the foot ofth e work to the Toronto and Re­ difficult to access. Entrances home to 's lieutenant below. They also rerouted the switchback, all done to address gion ConservationAuthority. are often hidden or hard to governor but demolished in trail connection between the resident concerns. They have considerable experi­ find, and many ofthem are not 1960. top of the ravine and the side- Keep in mind there were two ence providing both access to universally accessible. Prior to Now you can smoothly exit or waik years ofpubli c consultations natural spaces in our ravines, this, the paths down to the enter the Don Valley like a Despite all the added consul- for the initial 2014 project but also renaturalizing areas ravine floor here were steep, viceroy might have, a worthy tation andwork, in September · where residents could have with appropriate native plants narrow and in disrepair, only finale to this unnecessarily , oflast year, the group mounted contributed to the process and trees. fortl1e fit ofbody and fleet of long saga. daily protests in the park as constructively before all the Landscape architects will tell foot Twitter: @shawnmicallef