This report responds to a request from the Infrastructure and Environment Committee to undertake a comprehensive review of the various on-street parking administrative penalty amounts and to report back on revised administrative penalty amounts. Transportation Services has been working with a number of City agencies to review the Parking Violation Notices (PVN) issued by the City of Toronto and has conducted a jurisdictional scan of several Canadian municipalities to compare similar offences and their penalty amounts to those of the City of Toronto. As a result of this review, this report recommends Council approval to increase penalty amounts for 125 offences associated with 'parking', 'stopping' and 'standing'. The recommended increase in penalty amounts will ensure better alignment with penalty amounts in other jurisdictions, encourage compliance, ensure certain offences are set at levels commensurate with the seriousness of the offence, and ensure that offences within the same categories are set at the same penalty amount for consistency. City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 610, Penalties, Administration of, will need to be amended to reflect the new penalty amounts. This report also recommends establishing parking offences for electric vehicle charging parking stalls in off-street parking facilities as well as adding new or updating existing definition(s) related to Electric Vehicles (“EVs”). Currently, operators of off-street parking facilities, including the Toronto Parking Authority (TPA), have limited enforcement capabilities concerning EV parking due to a lack of offence provisions in the City of Toronto Municipal Code concerning parking in portions of parking facilities set aside for the charging of EVs. This absence of regulatory provisions restricts parking facility operators from ticketing non-EV’s parking in designated EV charging spaces, or ticketing EVs parked in designated EV charging spaces that are not actively charging. The General Manager, Transportation Services, has consulted with the TPA as well as with operators and customers of off-street parking facilities which are regulated by Chapter 915. As a result of the consultation by the General Manager, Transportation Services, and general observations concerning the needs relating to a positive customer experience for EV charging customers, this report is recommending amendments to the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 950, Traffic and Parking, and City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 915, Parking on Private or Municipal Property, to introduce new offence provisions related to electric vehicle charging parking. This would allow the enforcement of the usage of off-street EV charging spaces and promote compliance. City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 610, Penalties, Administration of, will also need to be amended to reflect the new offence provisions and associated penalty amounts for the offence provisions.
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