Important Information for Business Operators

Welcome and thank-you for opening up your business here along College Promenade! Whether you are a brand new business or a long-standing one, we hope these notes and items listed below will be helpful. 

Garage and Recycling 

  • Property owner generally is the party that needs to register a property address for the garbage collection program. 
  • Garbage Collection night is on Thursdays
  • Place items out between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.
  • All fees for Garbage Bin subscription service and premium Green Bin organics service must be prepaid three months in advance.
  • There is no fee for recycling and once-a-week organics collection. These are included as part of your collection services.
  • Commercial customers who receive curbside collection must purchase 95-gallon Garbage Bins and Blue Bins (recycling) and 35-gallon Green Bins (organics).
    Two weeks’ notice is required to cancel service.    ​
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A Frame / Sandwich Board Signs
  • A-frame signs are rigid, free-standing movable signs (not fastened to the ground or a structure) and include information on one or both sides. A-frame signs require a permit from the City.
  • Apply here
  • Cost: $119.05 per year, including HST
  • If you have a permit for a sidewalk café, the A-frame sign must be placed within the permitted café area.
  • Wherever you place your sign, there must be 2.13 m of unobstructed sidewalk between your store front and the road.
    If your store frontage is 6.1 metres or less, one A-frame sign is allowed.
  • If the store frontage is more than 6.1 metres, two A-frame signs are allowed.

Snow Clearing

  • If snowfall accumulation is 2 cm or less in depth, it is up to residents and businesses to clear their sidewalks of snow and ice within 12 hours of the end of a snowfall.
  • Property owners are responsible for clearing ice and snow from private property – including driveways, parking spaces, steps, ramps and landings – within 24 hours after snowfall ends to provide safe access for people and vehicles.
  • City crews start clearing all public sidewalks when the snow is 2 cm deep and the snow has stopped falling, or when icy conditions dictate.
  • Sidewalk clearing after a snowfall takes approximately 13 hours to complete and, depending on the storm severity, may occur more than once. Sidewalk clearing can continue up to 72 hours after the snow has stopped falling.
  • Check out the PlowTO Map to see if your area has been cleared by City snow plows
Land Acknowledgement
The City of Toronto acknowledges that what we now call Toronto is on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. The City also acknowledges that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.
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