City Overhaul Proposed in Toronto

Posted by: Nate Berg

22 February 2008 - 11:00am

Experts are calling for a major revision to the city operations of Toronto, suggesting the creation of region-wide toll roads, increased taxes and

"A panel of independent experts is suggesting a revolutionary overhaul of the city of Toronto’s operations, including higher residential property taxes, a parking lot tax, regional road tolls, selling of surplus city lands, improving city worker productivity and raises for some politicians.

The report released this morning by the six-member panel recommends:

* Trading the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway to the province in exchange for a share of regional road tolls;
* Getting the province to provide $200 million of annual funding and long-term, stable financing to Canada’s most populous city;
* Selling off some of the city’s estimated $18 billion in real estate assets to help slash its debt load;
* Giving pay hikes to members of city council’s powerful executive committee."

Full Story: Raise taxes, sell land: City report

Source: The Toronto Star, February 21, 2008

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Efficiencies need to be

Submitted by urbandesignr on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 14:03.

Efficiencies need to be regularly adopted to ensure that all opportunities for savings are taken. Sometimes it just takes too long between the spring cleanings that it feels like a big change. I think the unions may have some serious complaints about the proposal to outsource or otherwise tasks currently handled by unionized employees.
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