Item - 2013.TE28.4

The Toronto and East York Community Council recommends that:

1.         City Council amend Zoning By-law 438-86, as amended, for the lands at 20-38 Gladstone Avenue substantially in accordance with the draft Zoning By-law Amendment attached as Attachment No. 8 to the report (October 25, 2013) from the Director, Community Planning, Toronto and East York District, with the following amendments to Attachment No. 8:

a.         Replace Section 12(a) with the following:

(a)        Parking for residents shall be provided on the lot or at 11 Peel Avenue as follows:

i.          0.7 parking spaces for each bachelor dwelling unit

ii.         0.8 parking spaces for each one bedroom dwelling unit

iii.        0.9 parking spaces for each two bedroom dwelling unit

iv.        1.1 parking spaces for each three bedroom dwelling unit

b.         Replace Section 12(c) with the following:

(c)        Parking spaces may be provided on the lot for the use of the residents of 11 Peel Avenue, and notwithstanding the definition of non-residential gross floor area these parking spaces shall not be considered as non-residential gross floor area.

c.         Replace Section 12(d) with the following:

(d)       A minimum of 0.06 parking spaces per dwelling unit shall be provided for the exclusive use of residential visitors and there shall be no charge for their use either on the lot, or at 11 Peel Avenue.

i.          Despite 12(d), 3 of the parking spaces required for residential visitors may be provided in a commercial parking garage either on the lot or at 11 Peel Avenue. These spaces must be dedicated to residential visitors of the lot.

d.         Delete Section 12(e).

e.         Add the following to Section 15:

(e)        a commercial parking garage which may only be located below grade, on the P1 parking level.

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.

3.         City Council direct that the cash-in-lieu of parkland dedication payment, that is above the first 5%, be directed towards the cost to construct the park at 405 Dufferin Street, to the satisfaction of the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation.

4.         City Council approve the application to demolish the existing residential buildings at 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38 Gladstone Avenue, including the 5 residential rental dwelling units, pursuant to Municipal Code Chapters 667 and 363.

5.         City Council authorize the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division to issue a preliminary approval of the application under Municipal Code Chapter 667 for the existing residential rental housing buildings.

6.         City Council authorize the Chief Building Official to issue a Section 111 permit under Municipal Code Chapter 667 after the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division, has given the preliminary approval in Recommendation No. 5 for the existing rental housing buildings.

7.         City Council authorize the Chief Building Official to issue a permit under Section 33 of the Planning Act for the demolition of the 10 residential buildings.  This authorization is for the lands on which the existing rental buildings are situated, and after the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division has given the preliminary approval in Recommendation No. 4 which permit may be included in the demolition permit for Chapter 667 under 363-11.1E, of the Municipal Code, on condition that:

a.         the owner erect a residential building on site no later than four (4) years from the day demolition of the buildings is commenced; and

b.         should the owner fail to complete the new building within the time specified in condition 7.a., the City Clerk shall be entitled to enter on the collector’s roll, to be collected in a like manner as municipal taxes, the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) for each dwelling unit for which a demolition permit is issued, and that each sum shall, until payment, be a lien or charge upon the land for which the demolition permit is issued.