300 Bloor Street West and 478 Huron Street - Zoning Amendment Application - Final Report

A total of 124 parking spaces are proposed in a 5 1/2-level underground garage accessed off of Huron Street. The proposal is consistent with the Provincial Policy Statement (2014), as it provides a density and a mix of land uses which efficiently use land and resources. It is also transit supportive being less than 250 metres from two subway stations. The proposal provides for the conservation of significant built heritage resources. The proposal conforms with A Place to Grow: Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (2019), as it provides for an appropriate type and scale of development in a strategic growth area that provides an acceptable transition of built form to adjacent areas. The proposed building is to be located and massed to provide a transition through appropriate setbacks and/or stepping down of height toward lower scale Neighbourhoods and the building is also located and massed to adequately limit shadow impacts on adjacent Neighbourhoods and parks. The proposal allows for the integration and conservation of a listed heritage church on the site.

6 to the June 11, 2019 report from the Director, Community Planning, Toronto and East York District. . 3. City Council authorizes the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the draft Zoning By-law Amendments as may be required. 4. Before introducing the necessary Bills to City Council for enactment, City Council shall require the owner to enter into a Heritage Easement Agreement with the City to the satisfaction of the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, the City Solicitor and the Senior Manager, Heritage Preservation Services respecting 300 Bloor Street West and 478 Huron Street in accordance with the plans and drawings prepared by KPMB Architects, dated March 6, 2019, the Heritage Impact Assessment prepared by ERA Architects Inc., dated March 6, 2019, (the HIA), and a Conservation Plan satisfactory to the Senior Manager, Heritage Preservation Services, to be prepared by a qualified heritage consultant and that is consistent with the conservation strategy set out in the HIA and provides a detailed description with supporting documentation of the methods for restoration/replacement of the foundations of the retained building elevations at 300 Bloor Street West and 487 Huron Street. 5. Before introducing the necessary Bills to City Council for enactment, City Council will require the owner to provide a revised Functional Servicing Report to the satisfaction of the Chief Engineer, Engineering and Construction Services and such report will determine, whether the municipal water, sanitary and storm sewer systems can support the proposed development and whether upgrades or improvements of the existing municipal infrastructure are required. 6. Before introducing the necessary Bills to City Council for enactment, City Council shall require the owner to enter into and to register on title an agreement with the City pursuant to Section 37 of the Planning Act, and any other necessary agreements, to the satisfaction of the City Solicitor and the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, in consultation with the Senior Manager, Heritage Preservation Services. The community benefits to be provided by the Owner, at its expense and secured through the required Section 37 Agreement are as follows: a. the matters set forth in Recommendations 7.b.1., 7.b.2., and 7.b.3. of the Report of the Senior Manager, Heritage Preservation Services, Urban Design, City Planning Division, to the Toronto Preservation Board and Toronto and East York Community Council dated May 31, 2019, "Alterations to Heritage Properties at 300 Bloor Street West and 478 Huron Street, Intention to Designate under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act and Authority to Enter into Heritage Easement Agreements at 300 Bloor Street West and 478 Huron Street."; b. The following community benefits are recommended to be secured in the Section 37 Agreement; i. A financial contribution in the amount of $2,344,000.00 payable to the City prior to issuance of the first above-grade building permit, with such amount to be indexed upwardly in accordance with Statistics Canada Residential Building or Non-Residential Building Construction Price Index, as the case may be, for the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area, reported by Statistics Canada in the Building Construction Price Indexes Publication 327-0058, or its successor, calculated from the date of the Section 37 Agreement to the date of payment. The funds shall be directed as follows: ii. $2,344,000.00 towards capital improvements for new or existing Toronto Community Housing and/or affordable housing in consultation with the Ward Councillor. iii. $416,000.00 of benefit value in addition to recommendation 6. b.ii). towards providing space during the week, for the Annex Seniors Adult Services (SAS) group for accommodation within the Bloor Street United Church building subject to the following conditions: - A minimum of 200 square metres of space - Available 2 half days per week (8 hours per week total) - A minimum of a 10 year term - 50% discount over rental rate - Not to be assignable/transferrable to any other group without the City's consent c. The following matters are also recommended to be secured in the Section 37 Agreement as a legal convenience to support development: i. the owner shall provide, at its own expense, all to the satisfaction of the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning and the City Solicitor, a minimum area of 41 square metres adjacent to the sidewalk on Bloor Street West, as a Privately-Owned Publically-Accessible Space (POPS) and 327 square metres adjacent to the sidewalk on Huron Street as a second POPS, and shall provide to the City for nominal consideration POPS easements subject to public access easements for use of both POPS by members of the general public. Such easements to be conveyed to the City prior to the earlier of the issuance of any site plan approval for the site and the issuance of any heritage permit or building permit for the site and with the specific location, configuration and design to be determined to the satisfaction of the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division in the context of site plan approval. The owner shall, operate, maintain and repair the two POPS and install and maintain signs, at its own expense, stating that members of the public shall be entitled to use both the POPS at all times of the day and night, 365 days of the year. The owner shall have completed the construction of the two POPS prior to the earlier of any new commercial or any residential use of the site and registration of any condominium on the site; and ii. The owner shall construct and maintain the development in accordance with Tier 1 performance measures of the Toronto Green Standard, as adopted by Toronto City Council at its meeting of October 26 and 27, 2009. 7. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to request the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal to modify OPA 365 to permit a building height of 29 storeys, including a fourth floor mezzanine and mechanical penthouse, which do not constitute storeys, for a maximum building height of 104 metres.