Item - 2015.PG1.8
Tracking Status
- This item was considered by Planning and Growth Management Committee on January 8, 2015 and was adopted with amendments.
PG1.8 - Five Year Official Plan and Municipal Comprehensive Reviews: Status Update
- Decision Type:
- ACTION
- Status:
- Amended
- Wards:
- All
Committee Decision
The Planning and Growth Management Committee:
1. Requested the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to include a direction in the Official Plan transportation policy review ("Feeling Congested?") to develop an appropriate process to measure and monitor the cumulative effect of development on transportation congestion, to ensure planned new infrastructure is coordinated with growth of the City, and to include this direction when reporting on the Official Plan transportation policy review in 2015.
Decision Advice and Other Information
The Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives, Policy and Analysis, City Planning gave a presentation to the Planning and Growth Management Committee.
Origin
Summary
This report provides a status update on the progress of the statutory Official Plan and Municipal Comprehensive Reviews.
The Official Plan was adopted by Council in 2002 and brought into force by the Ontario Municipal Board in June 2006. The Planning Act was amended in 2007 to require a review of a municipal Official Plan within five years of the Plan coming into effect. Planning and Growth Management Committee directed the commencement of the review of the Official Plan in May 2011 with a series of citywide public consultations. In February 2012, following the initial public consultations, Council recognized the breadth and extent of the work to be undertaken and directed that the Reviews be conducted according to thematic policy areas, starting with those that were required to be considered under the Planning Act.
Official Plan Amendments have been enacted for the areas that were required to be reviewed, namely Heritage and the Employment Areas. Both amendments are before the Ontario Municipal Board. The review of the remaining policy areas has been adopted or is in the process of being undertaken and the proposed Official Plan Amendments will be brought to Planning and Growth Management Committee for statutory public meetings in 2015 and 2016.
Background Information
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2015/pg/bgrd/backgroundfile-74393.pdf
Presentation from the Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives, Policy and Analysis, City Planning on the Five Year Official Plan and Municipal Comprehensive Reviews: Status Update
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2015/pg/bgrd/backgroundfile-74617.pdf
Communications
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2015/pg/comm/communicationfile-50588.pdf
Motions
That:
1. The Planning and Growth Management Committee request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to include a direction in the Official Plan transportation policy review ("Feeling Congested?") to develop an appropriate process to measure and monitor the cumulative effect of development on transportation congestion, to ensure planned new infrastructure is coordinated with growth of the City, and to include this direction when reporting on the Official Plan transportation policy review in 2015.