Priority to Make Toronto Clean and Beautiful

City Council's Accomplishments

Dateline March 2004 - Mayor Miller Seeks Plan for a Clean and Beautiful City - The Mayor's report entitled "The Clean and Beautiful City Agenda" adopted by City Council at its March 2004 meeting, outlined a multi-year approach to achieving a Clean and Beautiful City focusing largely on a coordinated and sustainable program of cleanliness as well as a coordinated approach to street furniture.
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Clean and Beautiful by the Numbers
What Toronto is doing to make the City beautiful

100,000	Estimated number of people who helped with the annual 20-Minute Toronto Makeover
58	Number of events held during the May Festival of Architecture and Design
40	Community groups organized neighbourhood beautification projects across the City of Toronto
825	Number of volunteers who helped add almost 4,000 trees and shrubs to Toronto’s urban forest
16	Number of community group who painted murals in local communities
52	Individual and community group recipients of the Clean and Beautiful City Appreciation Award in 2005

Dateline April 2004 – 20 Minutes To A Clean Toronto - One of the first Clean City Beautiful City events was the 20-Minute Toronto Makeover and Community Clean-up Day in April. More than 40,000 residents answered the call to spend some time picking up litter with their neighbours.

Dateline October 2004 – Improving Public Space - City Council agreed to expand the Civic Improvement Program administered by Urban Development Services, as part of City Council’s priority for a Clean and Beautiful city and beautification goals in the City's Official Plan. Civic improvement projects apply to elements of the public realm such as the City’s system of streets, parks, open spaces, public buildings and facilities. Civic improvement projects include streetscape improvements (special paving, widened sidewalks, tree planting and landscaping), the creation of special features (plazas, fountains, gardens and interpretative displays) and naturalization programs.
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Dateline November/December 2004 - 5 Steps To A Clean And Beautiful City - City Council approved an action plan to augment current efforts to make Toronto a Clean and Beautiful City - one of Council's priorities for its 2003 to 2006 term of office. The five-point action plan organizes an evolving list of about 50 public and private initiatives into five key actions, captured in the slogan Sweep It, Design It, Grow It, Build It, Celebrate It.

Dateline March 2005 - Capital For Clean And Beautiful - City Council adopted a 2005 budget including almost $12 million in new money for Clean and Beautiful City programs which will enable Toronto to introduce new beautification initiatives, increase litter picking and improve the city's urban forest.

Dateline April 2005 - 100,000 Strong And Counting - One hundred thousand Torontonians donated their time to picking up litter during the 2005 20-Minute Toronto Makeover which took place on Earth Day - demonstrating how proud Torontonians are of their city. The 20-Minute Toronto Makeover is a complementary event to the Mayor Miller’s Community Clean-up Days.
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Dateline June 2005 – Adopting Orphan Spaces - Staff created 28 new and innovative horticultural displays; cleaned up and beautified 48 orphan spaces; increased grass cutting in parks; and worked with new enforcement officers to control the litter in parks as recommended in City Council’s report Our Common Grounds, the 15-year strategic plan developed for Parks, Forestry and Recreation with a focus on Parks Renaissance.
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Senior’s Sunflower Mural on Christie Street

Dateline July 2005 – Super Streetscapes - City Council approved a coordinated Street furniture program to help support the Clean and Beautiful City initiative. Street furniture includes items such as roadside benches, newspaper vending boxes, litter/recycling bins and transit shelters and the program represents a significant opportunity to make improvements to the look, feel and image of Toronto’s streetscapes. The goal is to move away from the current cluttered, diverse array of street furniture to design appropriate to different locations in the city.

Dateline October 2005 – Reducing Toronto’s Litter - Mayor David Miller announced the results of the 2005 Litter Audit. In 2002, the City of Toronto established a litter reduction goal of 50% for the period of 2002 to 2007 and mandated litter audits be done on an annual basis. In 2005 the City has reduced litter by 4% due to collection and enforcement enhancements. In 2004, we achieved a 16% reduction in litter – resulting in a 20% reduction over 2 years.
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