Jane Finch Secondary Plan and Urban Design Guidelines - Final Report

It advances the vision of an inclusive, transit-supportive and climate-resilient complete community, with a strong mixed-use core where local-serving retail and service uses would continue to thrive. The Secondary Plan would facilitate the development of significant new housing, with policies that encourage a diversity of housing types, forms, tenures and affordability. The Secondary Plan centres equity with a focus on outcomes for Indigenous, Black and equity-deserving groups, including implementation policies that would minimize displacement of residents and businesses. This report also recommends amendments to other Official Plan policies. These include extending the Avenues along the Finch West Light Rail Transit route, adjusting right-of-way widths for Jane Street and Finch Avenue West to support objectives for a complete street with a generous public realm, transit-priority measure and planned higher-order transit, redesignating certain lands close to Light Rail Transit stops to Mixed Use Areas and in one location to Apartment Neighbourhoods , and establishing locations for new streets to create developable blocks within the large mall, plaza and mixed-use sites in the study area. Two Site and Area Specific Policies are recommended for deletion to align plans for those sites with this updated policy context. The Jane Finch Secondary Plan and Urban Design Guidelines are an outcome of the Jane Finch Initiative, which is an interdivisional three-phased project that began in 2020. A companion plan, the Jane Finch Community Development Plan, stewarded by Social Development Finance and Administration (SDFA) and Economic Development and Culture (EDC), is proceeding through Economic and Community Development Committee in the same City Council cycle. The Jane Finch Initiative was informed by a thorough public consultation process facilitated by the Jane/Finch Centre, concurrent review of development applications, and input of staff from various City Divisions, commenting agencies and key stakeholder organizations. Two previous reports to City Council presented various milestones of the planning study, the most recent being the adoption of the Ideas Report by City Council in May 2022. This staff report presents the results of the public consultation process for Phase 2 (on the Ideas Report) and for Phase 3 (on the proposed Secondary Plan and Urban Design Guidelines). This recommended Official Plan Amendment is consistent with the Provincial Policy Statement (2020) and conforms to A Place to Grow: Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (2020) and the Greenbelt Plan (2017).

4. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to use the Jane Finch Secondary Plan and Jane Finch Urban Design Guidelines in the evaluation of all current and new development applications within the Secondary Plan area. 5. City Council adopt the Jane Finch Parks and Public Realm Strategy, included as Attachment 3, and direct the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation, the General Manager, Transportation Services, and the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, to use the strategy to advance parks and public realm initiatives within the Jane Finch Initiative study area. 6. City Council adopt the Jane Finch Mobility and Transit Integration Strategy, included as Attachment 4, and direct the General Manager, Transportation Services, and the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, to use the strategy to advance mobility initiatives in the Jane Finch Initiative study area. 7. City Council adopt the Jane Finch Community Service Facilities Strategy, included as Attachment 5, and direct the Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration, the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation, the General Manager, Children's Services, and the City Librarian, Toronto Public Library Board, in consultation with the Toronto District School Board and the Toronto Catholic District School Board, to use the strategy to inform future capital planning. 8. City Council adopt the Jane Finch Secondary Plan Servicing Capacity Assessment included as Attachment 7, and direct the General Manager, Toronto Water and the Chief Engineer & Executive Director, Engineering and Construction Services to use the study in the review of development applications. 9. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to bring forward amendments to Zoning By-law 569-2013 containing regulatory and performance standards to implement the land uses for the Jane Finch Secondary Plan.