The Corporation of the City of St. Catharines CITY COUNCIL AGENDA Regular, Monday, August 9, 2021 Electronic Participation, 5:00 PM
As part of the City's commitment to safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, this meeting of Council will be held electronically.
This Meeting may be viewed online at www.stcatharines.ca/youtube
Public Comments: The public may submit comments regarding agenda matters to the Office of the City Clerk by contacting [email protected] by Monday, August 9, 2021 before Noon. Comments submitted will be considered as public information and entered into public record.
Electronic Delegations: Those wishing to speak to an item on the agenda must complete the City’s Electronic Delegation Form by Sunday, August 8, 2021 before 11:59 p.m. and attend a test session with City staff on Monday, August 9, 2021 at 10 a.m.
His Worship Mayor Walter Sendzik takes the Chair and opens the meeting |
1. | Mayor's Report |
2. | Adoption of the Agendas |
3. | Declarations of Interest |
4. | Adoption of the Minutes (Council and General Committee) |
| 4.1 | Regular Council, Minutes of July 12, 2021
|
| 4.2 | General Committee, Minutes of July 12, 2021
|
5. | Resolve into General Committee Council will proceed to General Committee Agenda Item 1 - Motion to Move Reports on Consent |
6. | Motion Arising from In-Camera Session |
7. | Public Meetings Pursuant to Planning Act and Public Notice By-Law |
8. | Special Presentations |
9. | Resolve into General Committee Council will proceed to General Committee Agenda Item 3 - Discussion Reports |
10. | Motion to Ratify Forthwith Recommendations |
11. | Motions |
| 11.1 | Speed Limits Councillor Porter will present the following motion:
WHEREAS street design for safe driving behaviour, which includes features such as narrow lane widths, is the most important factor in creating safe streets, but lowering vehicle speeds is another important tool to improve road safety; and
WHEREAS pedestrian and cyclist fatalities increase as vehicle speed goes up and research studies have found that higher speed leads to more collisions involving children, who are more often injured in pedestrian and cycling injuries and casualties and that children are usually injured mid-block, often on residential streets, and in front of their home or a park; and
WHEREAS municipal, provincial, state, and federal governments across North America have invested in active transportation, complete streets design, and healthy community initiatives which has resulted in an increased number of pedestrians and cyclists that need to coexist with vehicles on roads, placing more pressure on setting appropriate speed limits; and
WHEREAS several municipalities across North America, including Edmonton, Toronto, Seattle, Portland, New York and hundreds of others, have reduced speed limits on local roads;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City of St. Catharines ask the province (Ministry of Transportation Ontario) to review and amend Section 128 (Rate of Speed) of the Highway Traffic Act to adopt Vision Zero principles and reduce the statutory speed limit on a highway within a local municipality or within a built-up area from 50 kilometres per hour to 40 kilometres per hour.
|
12. | Call for Notices of Motion |
13. | Report Requests |
14. | Agencies, Boards, Committee Reports |
| 14.1 | Minutes to Receive: Accessibility Advisory Committee, meeting of June 23, 2021 (draft) Anti-Racism Advisory Committee, meeting of July 21, 2021 (draft) Cultural Sustainability Committee, meeting of July 21, 2021 (draft) Equitable Recovery Subcommittee, meetings of July 5, 2021; and July 26, 2021 (draft) Equity and Inclusion Advisory Committee, meeting of July 13, 2021 (draft) LGBTQ2+ Advisory Committee, meeting of July 7, 2021 (draft) Public Art Advisory Committee, meeting of June 8, 2021 Social Sustainability Committee, meeting of July 22, 2021 (draft)
|
| 14.2 | Report Request from the Minutes of the Social Sustainability Pillar Meeting of July 22, 2021 Amendment to Public Nuisance By-law That the Social Sustainability Committee recommend that the proposal from the Anti-Racism Advisory Committee to amend the current public nuisance by-law be sent to City Council to request a report back from City staff on the following: Amend By-law 2007-295 (a By-law to address Public Nuisances) under Section 2 "Prohibitions" to add: “No person shall, in a public place, unnecessarily interfere with another person’s use and enjoyment of the Public Place by using abusive or insulting language as a personal invective.”
|
15. | By-laws |
| 15.1 | Reading of By-laws
|
16. | Adjournment |