Housing Action Plan: As-of-Right Zoning for Mid-rise Buildings on Avenues and Updated Rear Transition Performance Standards - Final Report

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2024-11-13 · Toronto City Council · amended

As filed

City Council on November 13 and 14, 2024, adopted the following: 1. City Council amend Zoning By-law 569-2013, as amended, substantially in accordance with the draft Zoning By-law Amendment attached as Attachment 2 to the report (October 15, 2024) from the Interim Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning. 2. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the draft Zoning By-law Amendment as may be required.

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3. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to consider opportunities to enable additional residential intensification through the Housing Action Plan work program including: a. updates to the mid-rise urban design guidelines to provide flexibility and enable opportunities for taller and denser mid-rise built form along the Avenues and report back to the December 5, 2024 Planning and Housing Committee meeting; b. re-examine older avenues studies and consider opportunities to align height, density and built form permissions with the recommended new as-of-right zoning for midrise permissions and report back to the Planning and Housing Committee in the third quarter of 2025; and c. make best efforts to identify additional opportunities to enable increased housing supply along existing and proposed Avenues that are served by frequent transit, including consideration of increasing height permissions to 12 storeys, and report back to the Planning and Housing Committee in the first quarter of 2025. 4. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to report to the Planning and Housing Committee by the end of the first quarter of 2025 with the list of avenue studies contemplated in Part 3.b. above. 5. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to review properties in the recommended Zoning By-law Amendment that do not currently have residential permissions, or have a residential density value less than 3.5, and report back in the fourth quarter 2025 with recommendations to introduce or increase residential use permissions where appropriate, as part of the Expanding Mixed Use Areas Housing Action Plan work plan item.

The vote

Adopt Item as Amended · Carried, 18-3

For (18)Amber Morley, Anthony Perruzza, Ausma Malik, Brad Bradford, Chris Moise, Dianne Saxe, Frances Nunziata, Gord Perks, Jamaal Myers, James Pasternak, Jon Burnside, Josh Matlow, Olivia Chow, Parthi Kandavel, Paula Fletcher, Rachel Chernos Lin, Shelley Carroll, Vincent Crisanti

Against (3)Lily Cheng, Nick Mantas, Stephen Holyday

Absent (5)Alejandra Bravo, Jennifer McKelvie, Michael Thompson, Mike Colle, Paul Ainslie

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The recommended As-of-right Zoning for Mid-rise Buildings on Avenues is one of 54 Housing Action Plan initiatives to make changes to the City's Official Plan, Zoning By-law and Urban Design Guidelines to enable more housing in neighbourhoods, along major streets and avenues. Other related action items include: the Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods (EHON) Major Streets Study, As-of-Right Zoning for Avenue Studies with no Implementing Zoning, the Avenues Policy Review, Expanding Mixed Use Areas, and Implementing Zoning for new Mixed Use Areas.

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City Planning has either reported out on the actions such as the Major Streets Study or is working to advance these action items in a comprehensive and integrated manner. This report recommends a zoning by-law amendment to permit as-of-right heights and densities for mid-rise buildings on lands identified as Avenues and designated Mixed Use Areas in the Official Plan. The recommended zoning by-law amendment implements urban design performance standards, including updated standards for rear transition alongside the increases to height and density permissions. These changes will enable and expand mid-rise development on the Avenues without the need for a site-specific zoning approval. Property owners would continue to be able to seek additional height or density through a minor variance where appropriate. The recommended changes have the potential to unlock an increase of almost 61,000 dwelling units above the approximately 21,500 dwelling units achievable under existing zoning standards. The recommended zoning by-law amendment would remove barriers, ease administration, and support the creation of more housing as part of the Housing Action Plan to achieve or exceed the provincial housing target of 285,000 new homes over the next 10 years. City Planning has also been conducting a comprehensive review of the Mid-Rise Building Performance Standards Urban Design Guidelines and has completed initial updates to the performance standards for Rear Transitions between mid-rise buildings and other buildings or open space uses. The final updated Rear Transition Performance Standards 5A and 5B will be formally incorporated in the consolidated Mid-rise Building Urban Design Guidelines document and presented to Planning and Housing Committee in Q4 2024.

Staff recommended

The Interim Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, recommends that: 1. City Council amend Zoning By-law 569-2013, as amended, substantially in accordance with the draft Zoning By-law Amendment attached as Attachment 2 to this report. 2. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the draft Zoning By-law Amendment as may be required.

Considered

2024-10-30 · Planning and Housing Committee · amended
Decision as filed
The Planning and Housing Committee recommends that: 1. City Council amend Zoning By-law 569-2013, as amended, substantially in accordance with the draft Zoning By-law Amendment attached as Attachment 2 to the report (October 15, 2024) from the Interim Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning. 2. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the draft Zoning By-law Amendment as may be required.
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3. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to consider opportunities to enable additional residential intensification through the Housing Action Plan work program including: a. Updates to the mid-rise urban design guidelines to provide flexibility and enable opportunities for taller and denser mid-rise built form along the Avenues and report back to the December 5, 2024 Planning and Housing Committee meeting; b. Re-examine older avenues studies and consider opportunities to align height, density and built form permissions with the recommended new as-of-right zoning for midrise permissions and report back to the Planning and Housing Committee in the third quarter of 2025; and c. Make best efforts to identify additional opportunities to enable increased housing supply along existing and proposed Avenues that are served by frequent transit and report back to the Planning and Housing Committee in the first quarter of 2025. 4. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to review properties in the recommended zoning by-law amendment that do not currently have residential permissions, or have a residential density value less than 3.5, and report back in the fourth quarter 2025 with recommendations to introduce or increase residential use permissions where appropriate, as part of the Expanding Mixed Use Areas Housing Action Plan work plan item.
Clerk’s note
The Planning and Housing Committee held a statutory public meeting on October 30, 2024, and notice was given in accordance with the Planning Act.
2024-11-13 · Toronto City Council · amended

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