Maximizing Municipal Uses to Include Affordable Housing on Existing Community Centre Sites - by Councillor Cynthia Lai, seconded by Mayor John Tory

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

2020-10-27 · Toronto City Council · adopted

As filed

City Council on October 27, 28 and 30, 2020, adopted the following: 1. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, in consultation with the Interim Chief Executive Officer, CreateTO, the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management, the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat and the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation, to identify a suite of City-owned properties in

Show the rest of As filed, 378 more characters as filed

Scarborough, including the property known as 5183 Sheppard Avenue East, which is currently zoned under the Open Space category, and to report back to City Council by the first quarter of 2021 on the suitability and feasibility of these sites for development intensification, including affordable housing and renewed or expanded space for parks, cultural uses and community uses.

On the agenda

As the city filed it

The "Towards Recovery and Building a Renewed Toronto" report identifies in Recommendations 31 and 32 the need to explore opportunities to intensify existing city owned lands, including for affordable housing and existing cultural centres. These are important recommendations that in many cases can be acted upon quickly to meet community needs. As a result, I would ask that City Council endorse this Motion so that we can start to act on these key recommendations.

Staff recommended

Councillor Cynthia Lai, seconded by Mayor John Tory, recommends that: 1. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, in consultation with the Interim Chief Executive Officer, CreateTO, the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management, the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat and the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation, to identify a suite of City-owned properties

Show the rest of Staff recommended, 381 more characters as filed

in Scarborough, including the property known as 5183 Sheppard Avenue East, which is currently zoned under the Open Space category, and to report back to City Council by the first quarter of 2021 on the suitability and feasibility of these sites for development intensification, including affordable housing and renewed or expanded space for parks, cultural uses and community uses.

On the record

The item as the City filed it

More from this meeting

The whole meeting