Summary of Development Application Fee and Related Resources for New Live Music Venues

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2025-10-30 · Planning and Housing Committee · amended

As filed

The Planning and Housing Committee: 1. Request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, the Executive Director, Development Review, and the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, to continue to explore options to support the sustainability of existing and new live music venues, including a review of development application fees and options to reduce and/or subsidize those fees, through the inter-divisional City "Sound Check" team's efforts as endorsed by the Toronto Music Advisory Committee.

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At its meeting on October 7, 2025 the Toronto Music Advisory Committee considered item MA8.2. Summary from the presentation (October 7, 2025) from Colin Wolfe, Senior Planner, Community Planning: Development Review will provide an update on planning-related application fees and related resources in response to Item MA7.1 at the May 15, 2025 meeting of the Toronto Music Advisory Committee.

Staff recommended

The Toronto Music Advisory Committee recommend that: 1. The Planning and Housing Committee request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, the Executive Director, Development Review, and the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, to continue to explore options for and impacts of reduced development application fees for proponents seeking to establish new live music venues, including Zoning

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By-law Amendment application fees, and report back to the first meeting of the Toronto Music Advisory Committee in 2026.

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