Housing Now - 140, 150, 156, 158 and 160 Borough Drive - City Initiated Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-Law Amendment - Final Report

This report recommends approval of the City-initiated applications to amend the Official Plan and the Employment Districts Zoning By-law Number 24982 (Progress Employment District), and to lift the Holding ("H") provisions at 158 Borough Drive. The applications propose to update existing residential permissions to permit a mixed-used building with two residential towers of 27 and 42-storeys with approximately 645 dwelling units, of which between 33 percent - 50 percent will be provided as affordable rental housing through the Housing Now Initiative. The site's redevelopment will include a non-profit daycare with programmable outdoor space and two publicly accessible pedestrian connections along the north and west side of the development which will improve pedestrian circulation to Albert Campbell Square from Borough Drive and Town Centre Court. The proposed development concept includes a generous landscaped streetscape along Borough Drive and a publicly accessible space with opportunity for hard and soft landscaping. The site's redevelopment will contribute to the continued development of a mixed-income, inclusive community, supporting the evolution and vision of Scarborough Centre. The site will remain in City ownership and will be leased to a developer partner for a term of 99 years. The developer partner will be responsible for detailed design and submission of a Site Plan Control application based on technical work that has been undertaken by CreateTO and City divisions to support the proposed development concept, in addition to other obligations related to the provision of new affordable housing. The proposed amendment to the Official Plan would exempt 158 Borough Drive from Policy 6.3 of the Scarborough Centre Secondary Plan that sets a parkland dedication rate of 0.4 hectares per 300 units. It would bring the parkland dedication rate for the site in alignment with the city-wide Official Plan policies that apply a cap on required parkland dedication, based on site area. In order to keep zoning permissions consistent for the surrounding properties at 140, 150, 156 and 160 Borough Drive, the proposed zoning by-law amendment also includes updating a performance standard that relates to how Gross Floor Area is calculated for these properties. The proposed development concept is consistent with the Provincial Policy Statement (2020), conforms with A Place to Grow: Growth Plan (2020), as it provides an appropriate form and scale of development in a strategic growth area, Scarborough Centre.

3. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the recommended Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment as may be required. 4. City Council request the Chief Executive Officer, CreateTO, in consultation with the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, to engage City partners and the developer partner, to advance the detailed design of development requirements identified in Attachment 11 to the satisfaction of the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, and to secure the delivery of the development requirements on terms, including details and timing, in a Lease Agreement with the developer partner. 5. City Council direct that future planning applications for 150 to 160 Borough Drive, including an application for Site Plan Control be reviewed in the context of the 158 Borough Drive Design Brief (February 2022), provided as Attachment 12 to this report. 6. City Council direct that market dwelling units are provided in accordance with the Growing Up Urban Design Guidelines with respect to unit size and type, and secured through the Lease Agreement with the future developer partner. 7. City Council request the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management to identify interim parking opportunities in the vicinity of Scarborough Civic Centre to meet civic centre parking needs related to the ModernTO program. 8. City Council direct the Executive Director of Corporate Real Estate Management to take all necessary steps to update and amend the applicable Shared Use Agreement and Cost Sharing Agreement between the City of Toronto and the Toronto District School Board to facilitate the development at 158 Borough Drive, prior to final Site Plan Approval. 9. City Council direct the General Manager of Transportation Services to review the feasibility of implementing a Borough Drive reconfiguration pilot project including temporary bidirectional bike lanes on the northern curb lane, from Omni Drive to the northeast intersection of Town Centre Court and Borough Drive, as recommended in the approved Scarborough Centre Transportation Master Plan dated April 11, 2018.