65 Ookwemin Street (Formerly 309 Cherry Street) - Amendment to Item 2024.CC19.9 - Ontario Land Tribunal Hearing - Request for Directions

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2025-07-23 · Toronto City Council · amended

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City Council on July 23 and 24, 2025, adopted the following: 1. City Council amend its previous decision on Item 2024.CC19.9 in accordance with the confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (July 10, 2025) from the City Solicitor. 2. City Council direct the Deputy City Manager, Development and Growth Services to engage with WaterfronToronto to develop a common planning approach for

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privately owned development sites and parcels in the Ookwemin Minising precinct that will deliver complete communities, including opportunities to increase the number of affordable housing units in line with City Council-approved targets which would include the use of available City incentives, subject to eligibility, intergovernmental funding programs, and federal financing tools and report on the progress to the October 30, 2025, meeting of the Planning and Housing Committee. 3. City Council authorize the public release of the confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 and Confidential Appendices A, B and C to the report (July 10, 2025) from the City Solicitor. 4. City Council direct that the balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (July 10, 2025) from the City Solicitor remain confidential at the discretion of the City Solicitor, as it contains advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege. The confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (July 10, 2025) from the City Solicitor were adopted by City Council and are now public as follows: 1. City Council amend Part 1 of the confidential instructions to staff in Council's decision on Item 2024.CC19.9 by adding to the end of Part 1 "as amended in the revised without prejudice settlement offer dated July 4, 2025 attached as Confidential Appendix A to the report (July 10, 2025) from the City Solicitor. 2. City Council amend Part 2 of the confidential instructions to staff in Council's decision on Item 2024.CC19.9 by deleting "(June 11, 2024)" and replacing it with "(July 10, 2025)". 3. City Council adopt amendments to the Ookwemin Minising Precinct Plan, in accordance with Confidential Appendix C to the report (July 10, 2025) from the City Solicitor in order to incorporate the 65 Ookwemin Street lands and the proposal as reflected in Confidential Appendix B to the report (July 10, 2025) from the City Solicitor into the precinct plan. 4. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to take all necessary actions to implement City Council's decision. Confidential Appendices A, B and C to the report (July 10, 2025) from the City Solicitor are now public and can be accessed under Background Information (City Council). The balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (July 10, 2025) from the City Solicitor remains confidential at this time in accordance with the provisions of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, as it contains advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege. The balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (July 10, 2025) from the City Solicitor will be made public at the discretion of the City Solicitor.

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On March 5, 2012 and December 30, 2016, the City received a Zoning By-law Amendment application for the north block and south block respectively of the lands then known as 309 Cherry Street, now known as 65 Ookwemin Street (the "Site"). The Site is centrally located within Ookwemin Minising in the Port Lands. The applications collectively proposed mixed use development, with a 26- storey residential tower atop an 8-storey podium and the partial retention of existing heritage buildings on the north block, and an 11-storey building and 52-storey building atop a 4-12 storey 'u-shaped' podium.

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The applicant appealed City Council's neglect or failure to make a decision on its applications for the Zoning By-law Amendment to the predecessor Ontario Land Tribunal (the "Tribunal") on October 31, 2014 for the north block and June 1, 2017 for the south block (the "Appeals"). In March 2023, the applicant submitted revised plans for the Site, proposing a tower on each of the north and south block with heights of 47 and 39 storeys respectively. On April 23, 2024, the applicant circulated further updated development plans to the Tribunal and other parties consisting of three residential towers of 27, 49 and 39 storeys, on podiums of various configurations ranging from 3 to 10 storeys. They also advised of their intention to provide 5 percent of the proposed residential units as affordable housing for a period of 25 years. At its meeting on June 26 and 27, 2024, City Council accepted a settlement proposal on this matter and directed the City Solicitor attend at the Ontario Land Tribunal in support of the settlement. The City Solicitor requires further directions to respond to an issue that arose since City Council provided staff instructions.

Staff recommended

The City Solicitor recommends that: 1. City Council amend its previous decision on Item 2024 CC19.9 in accordance with the recommendations contained in Confidential Attachment 1 to this report from the City Solicitor. 2. City Council authorize the public release of the confidential recommendations contained in Confidential Attachment 1, Confidential Appendix A, Confidential Appendix B, and Confidential Appendix C to this report from the City Solicitor, if adopted by City Council.

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3. City Council direct that all other information contained in Confidential Attachment 1 to this report from the City Solicitor is to remain confidential at the discretion of the City Solicitor, as it contains advice which is subject to solicitor-client privilege.

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