889 Royal York Road - Representation at Toronto Local Appeal Body Hearing - by Councillor Mark Grimes, seconded by Councillor Mike Colle

The applicant proposes to sever the Subject Property, which has a frontage of 15.24 metres, into two undersized residential lots. The application requires variances to City-wide Zoning By-law 569-2013 and the Etobicoke Zoning Code, as amended, including variances for lot frontage, lot area, lot coverage, maximum permitted floor space index, side yard setbacks, building length, encroachment of a platform into a setback, roof projection, and parking space width. Community Planning staff do not support the application. City Planning staff submitted a report dated February 13, 2019 to the Committee of Adjustment to recommend refusal of the consent and variances. Staff recommended refusal on the grounds that the applications to create two undersized residential lots is not in keeping with the established character and lot pattern of the neighbourhood. Engineering and Construction Services staff, in a memorandum dated January 15, 2019, recommended that the Committee of Adjustment defer its consideration of the applications pending the resolution of certain conditions. Copies of the Notices of Decision of the Committee of Adjustment, the Community Planning Staff Report, and the memorandum from Engineering and Construction Services are attached. This Motion will authorize the City Solicitor to oppose the applicant's Toronto Local Appeal Body appeal and to secure the necessary authorization and resources to support the City's opposition to the appeal, including providing for the ability for the City Solicitor to settle the matter.

3. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to attempt to negotiate a resolution of the appeal and, if a resolution is reached, to settle the appeal at the City Solicitor's discretion, and in consultation with the Ward Councillor and the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning.