SE Scarborough to get overnight parking
by Carole Stimmell

With any luck, residents of southeast Scarborough will finally be able to park their cars legally on the street overnight.

Unlike the rest of Toronto, Scarborough has had no permit street parking, however, on June 9, the Scarborough Community Council recommended to City Council that the area bounded by Victoria Park Avenue, Gerrard Street, Blantyre Avenue, Kingston Road, Fallingbrook Road, and Queen, excluding all of these boundary streets except Fallingbrook Road and Victoria Park Avenue south of Kingston Road and the area bounded by Victoria Park Avenue, Danforth Avenue, Warden Avenue, and the Canadian National Railway, excluding these boundary streets themselves be allowed long-term parking.

Alan Burke of the East Beaches Residents Association said that local residents have been requesting long-term parking for a very long time. Since most Scarborough homes were built after 1930, when driveways were normally included, Scarborough councillors took some convincing to allow this one small area to have long-term parking.