Eliminating Education Development Charges on Missing Middle Housing Forms

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

2024-03-20 · Toronto City Council · amended

As filed

City Council on March 20 and 21, 2024, adopted the following: 1. City Council request the Toronto Catholic District School Board to review their 2023 Education Development Charge By-law for alignment with the City's Development Charges By-law, and consider exempting secondary dwelling units ancillary to the principal residence. 2. City Council request the City-School Boards Advisory Committee to examine the broader issue of the relationship between Development Charges and Education Development Charges.

The vote

Amend Item · Carried, 22-1

Against (1)Stephen Holyday

Absent (3)Jaye Robinson, Lily Cheng, Vincent Crisanti

The whole record, all 26 members

Every name opens that member’s record.

On the agenda

As the city filed it

On November 27, 2023, the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) adopted a new Education Development Charges Bylaw that reinstated education development charges on missing middle housing forms like laneway suites and garden suites. As a result, households in the process of obtaining building permits for the purpose of constructing these housing forms are now being asked to pay ~$3,600 in development charges, despite previous guidance that none would be payable.

Show the rest of As the city filed it, 619 more characters as filed

The decision to reinstate education development charges on missing middle housing forms is counterintuitive to the City of Toronto's goal to expand housing options in neighbourhoods, the Province of Ontario's goal to rapidly increase the supply of housing, and our collective goal to increase housing affordability writ large. Therefore, this letter requests that the Province of Ontario amend the Education Act for the purpose of adding secondary dwelling units such as garden suites and laneway houses to the list of properties exempted from education development charges, thereby eliminating this gap in legislation.

Staff recommended

Councillor Bradford recommends that: 1. City Council request the Province of Ontario to amend the Education Act for the purpose of adding secondary dwelling units to the list of exempted properties, regardless of whether the secondary dwelling unit is created within or ancillary to the principal residence

Considered

2024-02-28 · Planning and Housing Committee · amended
Decision as filed
The Planning and Housing Committee recommends that: 1. City Council request the Province of Ontario to amend the Education Act for the purpose of adding secondary dwelling units to the list of exempted properties, regardless of whether the secondary dwelling unit is created within or ancillary to the principal residence.
Clerk’s note
The Planning and Housing Committee: 1. Directed the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to engage in discussions with the Toronto Catholic District School Board on this matter and report directly to the March 20, 2024 City Council meeting with any additional information.
2024-03-20 · Toronto City Council · amended

On the record

The item as the City filed it

More from this meeting

The whole meeting