NOTICE OF STUDY COMPLETION
Pickering Parkway Improvements
Municipal Class Environmental Assessment and Preliminary Design
Schedule “B”
from Liverpool Road to west of Glenanna Road

THE STUDY

The City of Pickering has completed a Class Environmental Assessment (EA) Study for improvements to Pickering Parkway from Liverpool Road to west of Glenanna Road as shown on the study area map below. A parking structure is proposed to be built inside the Pickering Town Centre on the south-western portion of the parking area and is expected to increase vehicular operations along Pickering Parkway. Based on the identified need to address capacity issues, the Study recommends a preferred solution which consists of the following:

• Implement a signalized intersection at the southwest corner of the Pickering Town Centre (PTC);
• Implement dual westbound left turn lanes from Pickering Parkway to Liverpool Road;
• Relocate the existing PTC access off Pickering Parkway (adjacent to the Esso gas station) further east of Liverpool Road and eliminate the left out movement;
• Implement additional traffic lanes on Pickering Parkway east of Liverpool Road; and
• Construct a new right in / right out access off Liverpool Road north of Pickering Parkway

THE PROCESS

The study was conducted in accordance with the planning and design process for Schedule “B” projects as outlined in the Municipal Engineers Association "Municipal Class Environmental Assessment" document (October 2000, as amended in 2007), which is approved under the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act.

A project file has been prepared, which documents the Class EA planning and decision-making process. The project file is available for public review for 30 days beginning on October 27, 2010 at the following location:

City of Pickering
Clerk’s Office
One The Esplanade, Pickering, ON
Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Please provide written comments to the City of Pickering by Friday, November 26, 2010. If concerns regarding this project cannot be resolved in discussion with the City, a person or party may request that the Minister of the Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental Assessment Act (referred to as a Part II Order). Requests for a Part II Order must be received by the Minister in writing at the following address:

The Honourable John Wilkinson
Minister of the Environment
77 Wellesley Street West
11th Floor, Ferguson Block
Toronto, Ontario, M4V 1P5

A copy of the request must also be sent to the Division Head of Engineering Services identified below. If no requests are received by Friday, November 26, 2010, the City will proceed with detailed design and construction of the preferred alternative. If there are any additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact either of the project representatives below:

This Notice was first issued on October 27, 2010