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Park Royal Community Association Annual General Meeting

Karen Ras Councillor, Ward 2 October 9, 2019

Agenda

• Community Safety/Neighbourhood Watch
• Regional Governance Review
• Coyotes in our Neighbourhoods
• Traffic / Traffic Calming
• Nine Creeks Trail Update
• Questions/Answers

Break and Enter Trends (Houses)

Organized Crime (Georgia, Eastern European, South American) Groups are Canada wide, not just GTA Very well organized

Strategies

Pay extra attention to your backyards (Ravine entries) Do NOT keep valuables in master bedroom; alarm upper levels Vacations (50% of entries people on vacation) Neighborhood Watch

Strategies

• Call Police, not friends/family
• Beware of Dog
• Property Marking

Car Entries

• Always lock vehicles
• Culprits walk up and down

streets checking door handles

• No plain view
• Report any break ins!

Contact Information

• Cst. Rodney #3615

Community Liaison Officer 905- 453-2121 ext.1160 Non-Emergency Line - 905-453-3311 (ask for communications)

Neighbourhood Watch

Register at: safecitymississauga.on.ca/programs/neighbourhood-watch/ What’s included?...

• CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) Audit of your

neighbourhood.

• A community Setup Meeting inviting Peel Regional Police & your local Ward

Councillor.

• Crime Prevention information, materials, newsletters, and resources.
• City Signage labelling the street as a Neighbourhood Watch - reminding

potential offenders that chances of being reported are higher.

• Inspires residents to take back their neighbourhood from crime.

2004 Council initiates the “One City, One Voice “ Campaign 2002 Council appoints a Citizens’ Task Force 2003 City commissions a Financial Report

($32 million estimated subsidy)

2019 2005 Province changes Regional Composition in Peel

(2 more seats for Mississauga)

Province announces Regional Review 2000 TODAY

History of Regional Review in Mississauga

2016 Regional Composition Discussion

(Mississauga vetoes the Region’s plan to increase membership to 32)

Provincial Review

(Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon and Peel)

• January 2019 – The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and

Housing announced that it had appointed two special advisors to review regional government in Ontario.

• Fall 2019 – The advisors will be making recommendations

to the Minister for the purpose of “improving governance, decision making and service deliveries”.

• The review includes 82 municipalities in total: including

the Regions of Peel, Halton, York and Durham.

Budget Breakdown

Property Tax Distribution

Region of Peel Facts

Did You Know?

Regional Population Regional Roads Regional Tax Levy Representation at Regional Council

Options Considered by Council

1. Regional Reform: Mississauga remains part of the Region

• f Peel but changes are made to address inefficiencies

and systemic issues 2. Amalgamation: Mississauga combines with Brampton, Caledon and the Region of Peel to form one city 3. Independence: Mississauga separates from the Region of Peel

INDEPENDENCE

Transition Period

What happens to Regional Services?

• Police – Mississauga and Brampton are serviced by Peel Regional

Police which has a separate legislated Police Board. This model could continue.

• Water/Wastewater – could be managed through a utility model as it is

currently paid for by user fees, not property taxes.

• Social and Health Services – must be delivered in compliance with

Provincial laws and funding arrangements from the Province.

• Other Services – Many services like planning, roads and Transhelp

could be absorbed into Mississauga with no disruption to service levels

Coyotes

Factors that may contribute to coyote sightings

• Proximity to Natural Areas or Travel Corridors: creeks, rivers, ravines, hydro, hwy.,

rail, park trails

• Abundance of natural food/water resources or lack of
• Anthropogenic food resources
• Free roaming – off leash pets
• Changes to the Landscape - new development, construction, forestry projects,

vacant property

• Time of year – mating, denning, juveniles, dispersing, food availability
• Time of day
• Health of animal
• Human contributors

Enforcement Strategies

• In 2011 – Animal Care and Control By-law

amended to prohibit the feeding of wildlife

• Officers actively enforce leashing, stoop

and scoop and wildlife feeding to minimize conflicts

Food Attractants in Parks and Hydro RoWs Corridors

Traffic & Traffic Calming

• New provincial legislation enabled municipalities to designate areas where by-lawed speed limits

can be imposed lower than 50 km/hr.

• City will be moving ahead to establish 40 km/hr neighbourhood area speed limits – Park Royal will

be the first neighbourhood in Ward 2 to be converted

• Vision Zero came about from the belief that no loss of life is an acceptable price for travelling on
• ur roads.
• City Council passed a resolution to adopt Vision Zero, a framework which focuses on the prevention
• f fatalities and injuries due to motor vehicle collisions.
• As part of lowering speed limits, we are developing plans that will lay out how we will achieve

Vision Zero through education, enforcement and engineering and what resources will be required to do so. Reducing speeds to 40 km/hr moves us in the right direction.

Nine Creeks Trail Update

There are currently 3 sections under construction and they are planned to be completed by October 18th, weather permitting:

• Truscott Rd. to Whitoaks Ave.- bridge and trail are installed.

[Fencing, gates, hydroseeding, line painting, signage and R-O-W works are outstanding];

• Indian Road to Woodeden Dr.- trail, Lornewood Creek culvert

replacement and plantings are complete. [Fencing, gates, line painting, hydroseeding and R-O-W works are outstanding];

• Indian Grove to South Service Rd. – trail is installed. [Fencing, gates,

hydroseeding, line painting, signage and R-O-W works are

• utstanding]

Nine Creeks Trail Update

• Construction of the trail section between Winston

Churchill Blvd. and Bromsgrove Rd. is scheduled to commence within 1-2 weeks.

• TNPL locates are currently being completed by

hydrovac.

• Resident notification notices for this section will be

mailed out next week.

• Additional directional signage will be added soon

QUESTIONS?