4466 Sheppard Avenue East - Toronto Local Appeal Body Hearing - Request for Directions

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2025-12-16 · Toronto City Council · adopted

As filed

City Council on December 16 and 17, 2025, adopted the following: 1. City Council adopt the confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (December 3, 2025) from the City Solicitor. 2. City Council authorize the public release of the confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (December 3, 2025) from the City Solicitor. 3. City Council direct that the balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (December 3, 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.

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The confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (December 3, 2025) from the City Solicitor were adopted by City Council and are now public as follows: 1. City Council direct the City Solicitor to withdraw the City's appeal of the Committee of Adjustment Decision for File A0260/24SC (TLAB File 25 233464 S45 23 TLAB) regarding 4466 Sheppard Avenue East. 2. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to take all necessary actions to implement City Council's decision. The balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (December 3, 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 (December 3, 2025) from the City Solicitor will be made public at the discretion of the City Solicitor.

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As the city filed it

On September 27, 2024, the applicant submitted a Minor Variance application for 4466 Sheppard Avenue East (the "Site") seeking variances to the Former City of Scarborough Employment Districts Zoning By-law 24982 in order to permit interior alterations to convert the second-floor office space of the existing two-storey building into a pool and billiards hall. The variances sought to reduce the number of parking spaces, reduce the minimum distance of the pool and billiards hall from a residential zone, and to permit the pool/billiard hall fronting Sheppard Avenue East.

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The City appealed the Committee of Adjustment's decision to approve the application for the Minor Variance (the "Appeal"), to the Toronto Local Appeal Body on September 30, 2025. The City Solicitor requires further directions for an upcoming Toronto Local Appeal Body Hearing scheduled for February 13, 2026. The matter is urgent and cannot be deferred.

Staff recommended

The City Solicitor recommends that: 1. City Council adopt 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 to this report from the City Solicitor, if adopted by City Council. 3. City Council direct that all other information contained in Confidential

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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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