City Council · 2024-11-14 15:26 PM
Adopt Item
Majority required - MM23.32 - Adopt the item
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- Carried, 24-0
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The landlord of 80 Guestville Avenue has issued 26 N13 notices to tenants, claiming the need to renovate their units. Although building permits have been issued, no work has started on any unit, indicating a likely renoviction—an increasingly common tactic landlords use to evict tenants and raise rents. The Building Department has the authority to revoke a building permit if work has not begun within six months of issuance. Revoking these permits would halt the evictions and protect tenants from displacement. This motion is deemed urgent as N13 notices have been issued, and time is critical to prevent tenants from facing eviction.
City Council · 2024-11-14 15:26 PM
Majority required - MM23.32 - Adopt the item
Toronto Azzurri Soccer Club is a Below Market Rent not for profit tenant of a City-owned property located at 4995 Keele Street in Ward 6. On January 1, 2006, the Tenant entered into a 20-year Below Market Rent lease agreement for the Property. As of January 1, 2006, the Tenant began occupying the Property and has constructed an on-site field house and has operated and maintained the field house and the outdoor soccer field at the Property. The Tenant also operates recreational, competitive, and special needs soccer programs on the Property. A lease amendment was executed on June 1, 2008 to increase the area of the Leased Premises, to construct and maintain an environmentally friendly parking lot and to expand the use of the facility to include cricket and other sports and recreational activities. The operating and maintenance cost of the clubhouse and the field will continue to be the responsibility of the Tenant. The forgone revenue is not fully known given the status of the existing nominal lease arrangement. The Property is under the jurisdiction of Toronto Water as Keele Reservoir expansion lands. The expansion lands will be used by Toronto Water in future to increase the size…
City Council · 2024-11-14 15:17 PM
Majority required - MM23.20 - Adopt the item
With vacancy decontrol and the Ford government’s removal of rent control on buildings constructed after 2018, Toronto renters are all too aware of escalating prices for vacant units and annual double-digit rent increases on an apartment they’re already renting. With a structural housing supply shortage driving rent inflation, landlords are said to pass on massive rent increases to tenants according to what the market will bear. But what if these large increases are not solely the machinations of the “free market”, but rather the product of illegal price collusion between landlords facilitated by the same algorithmic pricing software currently subject to antitrust investigations in the United States? In the U.S., the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating property management software company RealPage for illegal algorithmic rent setting through its software Yieldstar. The Department of Justice launched a lawsuit last August, claiming that the AI software allows landlords to collude on their rents, avoiding fair competition in the market. The influence of RealPage across U.S. rental markets was significant: it set roughly 60 person of prices in the…
City Council · 2024-11-14 15:13 PM
Majority required - MM23.18 - Adopt the item - part 1 only
This Motion will give the City Solicitor authority to appeal the Committee of Adjustment’s decision approving the minor variance application at 171 Pendrith Street (A0475/23TEY); to attend the Toronto Local Appeal Body to oppose the development proposed in application A0475/23TEY; to retain outside consultants as necessary; and to negotiate a settlement of the appeal. On October 2, 2024, the Committee of Adjustment approved an application brought by the agent of the owner of 171 Pendrith Street for a proposal to construct a new three-storey detached dwelling on the site, with an internal garage, a covered front porch with stairs, a rear ground floor deck, and a rear walkout basement. To facilitate this application, four minor variances from City-wide Zoning By-law 569-2013 were sought. A copy of the Committee of Adjustment’s decision on this application is attached as Attachment 1. The City’s primary issue with the Application is that the front yard land scaping is inadequate as the Application reduces the minimum 75% (9.56 square metres) of the required front yard landscaped open space down to 41.8% (5.33 square metres). The second issue with the Application is…
City Council · 2024-11-14 15:10 PM
Majority required - MM23.16 - Adopt the item
Toronto, with a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, is the fourth-most populous city in North America. Our population, our economy and our government are larger than those of every Canadian province except British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec and Ontario. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture and is one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Toronto is the economic engine of Ontario, providing a large subsidy every year to other parts of the province, as well as to other parts of Canada. Toronto provides a disproportionately large share of the revenue of the provincial government. City Councillors are the closest level of government to our constituents, and most reliably represent the interests of local residents and businesses. The City of Toronto owns, pays for, maintains and operates most of the infrastructure that allows this goose to lay its golden eggs, in an environment of overwhelming and competing demands. Managing and allocating this public infrastructure so as to appropriately balance these competing demands is a central function of municipal government, and essential to allow us to do the jobs we were elec…
City Council · 2024-11-14 15:09 PM
Two-Thirds required - MM23.14 - Waive referral
The high-rise neighbourhood surrounding the Yonge and Eglinton intersection is one of the most densely populated areas of Toronto. A count taken by the City on May 24 of this year found that 40,372 pedestrians crossed the intersection in one day-the highest total observed at any intersection in Toronto between 2020-2024. During peak periods there are often queues at corners leading to residents waiting more than one traffic light phase just to cross the street. While the local community is still waiting for Metrolinx to open the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, construction is finally finished at the Yonge and Eglinton intersection. Now is the right time to start the process to install a pedestrian scramble to provide safety and convenience for pedestrians at this intersection. This motion requests staff to report on the feasibility of implementing a pedestrian scramble after the Eglinton Crosstown LRT is operational.
City Council · 2024-11-14 14:57 PM
Majority required - MM23.13 - Adopt the item