City Council · 2025-07-24 19:00 PM
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Majority required - SC24.1 - Adopt the item
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- Carried
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- Carried, 22-0
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This Report recommends approval of the application to amend the Zoning By-law to permit a 13-storey (52.7 metres, excluding the mechanical penthouse) building containing a 378 bed long-term care facility, an ambulance depot, medical offices and other ancillary uses at 4610 Finch Avenue East. The building would result in a total gross floor area of 40,020 square metres. Vehicular parking will be contained in the second and third level of the building. The proposed development is consistent with the Provincial Planning Statement (2024) and conforms to the City’s Official Plan. This proposal responds to the urgent need for long-term care services in the City of Toronto by providing the proposed uses in an appropriately scaled development activating an underutilized City-owned site.
City Council · 2025-07-24 19:00 PM
Majority required - SC24.1 - Adopt the item
As part of the City's 2022-2026 Housing Action Plan, which seeks to increase the supply of housing within complete, inclusive, and sustainable communities with critical infrastructure to support growth, City Council decided in May 2024 to amend the Official Plan and Zoning By-law to permit townhouses and small-scale apartment buildings along major streets in Neighbourhoods areas across the City. The Zoning By-law Amendment implemented these permissions as-of-right in all residential zones across Toronto, and also implemented appropriate performance standards. Following City Council's adoption of the Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments, both were appealed to the Ontario Land Tribunal. The Ontario Land Tribunal has conducted two Case Management Conferences, and has scheduled a hearing of the appeal for five days, commencing on November 3, 2025. The City Solicitor requires further directions for the upcoming Ontario Land Tribunal hearing. City Council's consideration of this matter should not be deferred beyond the conclusion of the July 23 to 25, 2025 meeting of City Council, because there are significant procedural deadlines, including the exchange of witness statements, tha…
City Council · 2025-07-24 18:47 PM
Majority required - CC32.11 - Adopt the item
This report presents the findings of the Garden Suites Monitoring Program and recommends modifications to the Official Plan policies and Zoning By-law permissions for garden suites to further support the effective implementation of garden suites in Toronto and to align Zoning By-law 569-2013 with recent provincial regulatory changes. This report also encourages continuing City efforts to improve communications, processes, and application status tracking related to garden suites. A “garden suite” is a detached, self-contained ancillary living accommodation permitted on properties in residential zones in Toronto. Garden suites are usually located in the rear yard of properties and are generally smaller than the main house on the lot. Unlike laneway suites, a garden suite does not abut a public laneway. With the guiding principles of both “garden” and “suite”, garden suites are intended to provide an additional form of low-rise housing and increase housing supply within Neighbourhoods, while maintaining the natural environment, urban forest tree canopy, and soft landscaped character in rear yards. Garden suites also provide additional housing optio…
City Council · 2025-07-24 18:45 PM
Majority required - PH23.1 - Adopt the item as amended
City Council · 2025-07-24 18:44 PM
Majority required - PH23.1 - Perks - motion 1
Scarborough has long offered families from across the world affordable homes and housing options that met their needs, regardless of income or size. Today, those opportunities are increasingly out of reach—in Scarborough and across Toronto - due to rising costs that disincentivize the development of the types of comfortable and multigenerational homes we can build. Currently, all multiplex developments in Toronto that are four units and under are exempt from parkland fees and development charges. This motion seeks to provide the same incentive for the first four units contained in larger developments of up to six units. This motion also directs the Chief Planner to consider permitting permeable paving options that suit suburban wards that receive windrow-clearing services as a component of the soft landscaping requirements to further make building these homes more affordable for our families.
City Council · 2025-07-24 18:01 PM
Majority required - MM32.5 - Adopt the item as amended
City Council · 2025-07-24 18:00 PM
Majority required - MM32.5 - Chow - motion 1
The City has approved numerous updates to its Official Plan and Zoning By-law since 2018 to permit more low-rise housing in residential neighbourhoods to meet the needs of a growing city. Many of these new land use permissions have advanced through the the City’s Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods (“EHON”) initiative. These low-rise housing forms, sometimes referred to as the “missing middle”, can range from garden suites to small-scale apartment buildings on major streets. All these housing types can be found in Toronto today and historically have been located within our traditional neighbourhoods, but more recently in our City’s history they have been limited in where they are allowed to be built. City Planning’s recent Neighbourhood Intensification Research Bulletin examines the potential for new housing units in Toronto’s Neighbourhoods, as a result of the various EHON initiatives. The Bulletin's findings highlight that as a component of Toronto’s Housing Action Plan (HAP) and Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) commitments, EHON initiatives could contribute approximately 54,600 units or almost one-fifth (19 percent) of…
City Council · 2025-07-24 17:58 PM
Majority required - PH23.6 - Adopt the item as amended
City Council · 2025-07-24 17:57 PM
Majority required - PH23.6 - Chow - motion 1
Toronto residents across a range of incomes are facing an unaffordable housing market decades in the making, with over 10,000 residents experiencing homelessness, over 100,000 households waiting for a rent-geared-to-income (RGI) home, and low- and middle-income households struggling to afford their homes amidst the rising cost of living in the city. In a dynamic housing market, where housing starts are at a historic low, it is more important than ever to ensure housing projects that include affordable housing outcomes are supported to move from pre-development to construction and occupancy. There are currently over 230 active affordable housing projects in the City’s housing pipeline that have been approved for financial incentives (including relief from development fees, charges and property taxes) indicating the City’s strong commitment to reduce costs, remove barriers, and expedite approvals for affordable housing. However, due to difficult market conditions and limited funding from other orders of government, only 43 of these projects are currently under construction. Since 2023, the City has taken a number of unprecedented actions across the housing continuum to s…
City Council · 2025-07-24 17:56 PM
Majority required - PH23.5 - Adopt the item as amended
City Council · 2025-07-24 17:55 PM
Majority required - PH23.5 - Nunziata - motion 2