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🍁🏙️ City of Toronto Launches Cleaning Blitz to Protect Public Spaces, Streets and Parks 🧹

Saturday, 21 June 2025 02:24.PM

Today, Mayor Olivia Chow launched a new citywide initiative called Keep Toronto Beautiful aimed at keeping public spaces clean, safe and well-maintained. A clean city impacts public health, the environment, the economy and overall quality of life.

From now through fall, 300 to 400-person cleaning blitz crews will harness their energy to clean and refresh specific high cleaning-need areas. This work will include:
• Removal of graffiti, weeds and litter from streets, sidewalks, parks and other spaces
• Tree maintenance on streets and in parks
• Installing more than 600 new garbage and recycling bins in high-usage parks
• Intensified enforcement and clean-up of illegal dumping hotspots
• Street sweeping and clean-up of boulevards and laneways
• Repairs to potholes, bike lanes and bike rings
• Repainting pavement markings, including crosswalks, to improve road safety

These blitzes, planned for several Saturdays over a three-month period, are in addition to proactive daily patrols by City crews to identify and maintain areas in need of attention.

The City is also putting extra care into public parks and pools this summer with daily clean-up efforts that include repairing benches, picnic tables and other equipment, graffiti removal and litter pickup, as well as hiring up to 30 students to join summer park cleaning teams and adding more custodial staff to maintain 21 outdoor pools.

Data will drive the approach to identify neighbourhoods where cleaning blitzes are most needed. Crews will resolve 311 Service Requests as well as applying an equity lens to prioritize cleaning and repairs in historically underserved, low-income and vulnerable communities where the City typically receives fewer 311 Service Requests.

SOURCE: City of Toronto

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