Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods: Multiplex Study - Final Report

3. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the proposed Official Plan Amendment and Draft Zoning By-law Amendment as may be required. 4. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to monitor the implementation and effectiveness of Official Plan Amendment 649 and the Zoning By-law Amendment in facilitating multiplex development, and to report to the Planning and Housing Committee on monitoring outcomes, including the sale and rental prices of the newly created units upon issuance of 200 building permits for multiplex buildings, or in the first quarter 2026, whichever is earlier, and to recommend any necessary revisions to the Official Plan policy, Zoning By-law, or other changes to improve implementation and facilitate multiplex construction. 5. City Council direct the General Manager, Parks, Forestry, and Recreation to refuse, at the General Manager's discretion, a permit to injure or destroy a tree protected under Municipal Code Chapters 608, 658, or 813, received in relation to a building permit application to construct or expand a multiplex building type, and to advise the applicant to meet with City Planning and Urban Forestry staff as appropriate to consider how the location, massing and design of the proposed building or expansion can be amended to protect the By-law protected tree in question. 6. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, as part of the 2023 Development Application Fee Review, to review and consider amendments to planning application fee categories under the City of Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 441, Fees and Charges, Appendix C, Schedule 13, to facilitate multiplex development. 7. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, to undertake an area-specific study, generally bounded by Steeles Avenue, Midland Avenue, Highway 401, and Neilson Road/Morningside Avenue/the Rouge River, to review the potential to permit residential buildings that contain up to six dwelling units in the principal building on properties designated Neighbourhoods in the Official Plan, subject to appropriate performance standards, and report back to Planning and Housing Committee by the end of 2023 with any appropriate recommendations for Zoning By-law Amendments. 8. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, to undertake an area-specific study, generally bounded by Steeles Avenue, Midland Avenue, Highway 401, and Neilson Road/Morningside Avenue/the Rouge River, to review the potential to permit building depths of 19 metres for all multiplex buildings, regardless of lot depth, and report back to the Planning and Housing Committee by the third quarter of 2024 with any appropriate recommendations for Zoning By-law Amendments. 9. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to review parking and traffic impacts as part of the monitoring program related to multiplex development and report on the findings as part of the report-back to Planning and Housing Committee in the first quarter of 2026 on monitoring outcomes. 10. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to track and review the number of by-law-protected trees damaged or removed as a result of the construction of multiplexes, and the number and type of minor variances requested and approved for multiplexes, as part of the monitoring program related to multiplex development and report on the findings as part of the report-back to the Planning and Housing Committee in the first quarter of 2026 on monitoring outcomes. 11. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning and the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation to report to the appropriate Standing Committee in the third quarter of 2023 with a status update on work previously requested in Items 2021.PH29.2 and 2022.IE30.18, which respectively requested staff to consider strategies to protect and enhance growing space and the City's tree canopy and growing space, while also supporting infill housing growth in the City's Neighbourhoods, and to report back regarding potential strategies to protect and enhance the City's tree canopy and growing space, while also supporting infill housing growth in the City's Neighbourhoods. 12. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, in future reports related to the Housing Action Plan, to consider: a. multiplex development in areas with low levels of development activity and a limited number of development applications in the pipeline; and b. the provision of multiplex development on main arterial and collector roads and avenues where there is already existing infrastructure in place such as existing transit, libraries, community centres, and shopping amenities, thereby reducing reliance on cars and encouraging the use of public transit which would reduce pressures for parking. 13. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, in consultation with the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, to report back on the feasibility of a program that incentivizes owners of multiplexes to make one of the four units affordable to rent or purchase. 14. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to consult with the Toronto District School Board, the Toronto Catholic District School Board, and review impacts related to school capacity as part of the monitoring program related to multiplex development and report on the findings as part of the report-back to Planning and Housing Committee on monitoring outcomes.