TOcore: Updating Tall Building Setbacks in the Downtown - City Initiated Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendments - Update and Request for Directions for Local Planning Appeal Tribunal Hearing

The Public Gallery wrote no story on this item. What follows is the city’s own record of what happened to it, as filed: nothing on this page is summarised or scored by us.

The decision

2019-02-26 · Toronto City Council · adopted

As filed

City Council on February 26, 2019, adopted the following: 1. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to request the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal to amend and partially approve Zoning By-laws 1106-2016 and 1107-2017 in accordance with Public Attachment 1 to the report (February 15, 2019) from the City Solicitor. 2. City Council authorize the repeal of Zoning By-laws 238-2017 and 239-2017, should the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal amend Zoning By-laws 1106-2016 and 1107-2017 to incorporate the contents of Zoning By-laws 238-2017 and 239-2017.

Show the rest of As filed, 2,020 more characters as filed

3. City Council authorize and direct the City Solicitor to take the necessary action to give effect to City Council's decision. 4. City Council adopt the confidential recommendations in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (February 15, 2019) from the City Solicitor. 5. City Council authorize the public release of the confidential recommendations in Confidential Attachment 1 and Confidential Attachment 2 to the report (February 15, 2019) from the City Solicitor. 6. City Council direct that the balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (February 15, 2019) from the City Solicitor remain confidential at the discretion of the City Solicitor, as it contains advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege. The confidential recommendations in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (February 15, 2019) from the City Solicitor were adopted by City Council and are now public, as follows: 1. City Council accept the Settlement Offer from McCarthy Tétrault, dated February 14, 2019. 2. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to request that the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal amend and partially approve Zoning By-law Amendments 1106-2016 and 1107-2016, substantially in accordance with Confidential Attachment 2 to the report (February 15, 2019) from the City Solicitor. 3. City Council authorize and direct the City Solicitor to take the necessary action to give effect to City Council's decision. Confidential Attachment 2 to the report (February 15, 2019) from the City Solicitor is now public and can be accessed under Background Information (City Council). The balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (February 15, 2019) from the City Solicitor remains confidential at this time in accordance with the provisions of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, as it contains advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege. The balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (February 15, 2019) from the City Solicitor will be made public at the discretion of the City Solicitor.

On the agenda

As the city filed it

At its meeting of October 5, 6, and 7, 2016, City Council adopted the recommendations of the Final and Supplementary Reports on TOcore: Updating Tall Building Setbacks in the Downtown - City-Initiated Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment, as amended by Toronto and East York Community Council. It enacted By-law 1105-2016 ("OPA 352") and By-laws 1106-2016 and 1107-2016 (the "Zoning By-law Amendments"). These instruments were the outcome of a six-month study providing policy and updating the setback requirements for tall buildings in the Downtown.

Show the rest of As the city filed it, 772 more characters as filed

There were over two hundred appeals of Council's decision to enact OPA 352 and the Zoning By-law Amendments made to the Ontario Municipal Board (the "OMB"), now continued as the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (the "LPAT"), by numerous landowners and stakeholders. The Local Planning Appeal Tribunal has conducted three Pre-Hearing Conferences to date in relation to OPA 352 and the Zoning By-law Amendments, at which parties have been identified, and procedural directions have been issued, with the aim of rendering the eventual hearing of the appeals efficient and cost-effective. The purpose of this report is to request further instructions with respect to the appeals of the Zoning By-law Amendments. City Planning has been involved in the preparation of this report.

Staff recommended

The City Solicitor recommends that: 1. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to request that the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal amend and partially approve Zoning By-laws 1106-2016 and 1107-2017 in accordance with Public Attachment 1 to this report. 2. City Council authorize the repeal of Zoning By-laws 238-2017 and 239-2017, should the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal amend Zoning By-laws 1106-2016 and 1107-2017 to incorporate the contents of Zoning By-laws 238-2017 and 239-2017.

Show the rest of Staff recommended, 637 more characters as filed

3. City Council authorize and direct the City Solicitor to take the necessary action to give effect to recommendations 1 and 2. 4. City Council adopt the recommendations contained in the Confidential Attachment 1 to this report. 5. City Council authorize the public release of the confidential recommendations contained in the Confidential Attachment 1 and Confidential Attachment 2, if adopted by City Council. 6. City Council direct that all other information contained in Confidential Attachment 1 is to remain confidential at the discretion of the City Solicitor, as it contains advice which is subject to solicitor-client privilege.

On the record

The item as the City filed it

More from this meeting

The whole meeting