{"id":589604,"date":"2026-04-08T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:39:09","slug":"toronto-could-ban-jet-skis-entirely-from-city-owned-docks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589604\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto could ban jet skis entirely from City-owned docks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto’s\u00a0waterfront is constantly evolving \u2014 from an\u00a0airport runway expansion<\/a> to an upcoming cruise ship terminal<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and now, there’s a new plan on the table that could reshape how people use the water itself.<\/p>\n

A recent motion<\/a> from City Councillor Dianne Saxe (Ward 11, University-Rosedale) is calling on staff to look into banning jet skis and other high-polluting personal watercrafts from City-owned properties.<\/p>\n

That could mean fewer opportunities to recreate high-speed chase scenes on the harbour like it’s a James Bond movie \u2014\u00a0or a Mariah Carey music video.<\/p>\n

Saxe’s proposal comes after the City’s General Government Committee recommended approval<\/a> of 20-year lease renewals for 24 waterfront boat clubs, under one condition: no more jet ski rentals on those sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But during discussions, it became clear that many clubs actually wouldn’t mind going even further and extending the ban to privately-owned jet skis too.<\/p>\n

Privately owned jet skis have reportedly played a significant role in ongoing conflicts at some clubs \u2014 including issues tied to the Humber Yacht Club, which ultimately didn’t have its lease renewed<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beyond the noise (and occasional side-eye from chill kayakers), there are environmental concerns to factor in.\u00a0Jet skis and older two-stroke engines are “well known to pump petroleum products into the water in which they operate.”<\/p>\n

More marina drama: City staff admitted they haven’t actually done a full study or public consultation on the pollution side of things just yet.<\/p>\n

There are cleaner alternatives out there, including electric boat engines that are basically the EVs of the lake, but they’d require installing charging stations at marinas and clubs to\u00a0take off.<\/p>\n

Saxe’s\u00a0motion asks staff to work with groups like the Toronto Region Conservation Authority and Toronto Hydro to study the issue and report back by 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For now, nothing is set in stone. But if the plan moves forward, Toronto’s waterfront could be heading toward a future with less annoyingly loud revving engines and more peaceful sounds of waves crashing and birds flying. Who could ever complain about that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto’s\u00a0waterfront is constantly evolving \u2014 from an\u00a0airport runway expansion to an upcoming cruise ship terminal\u00a0\u2014 and now, there’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[33624,49,48,16596,224653,3302],"class_list":["post-589604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ban","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jet","tag-skis","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}