Item - 2016.PG9.8

City Council on November 3 and 4, 2015, referred Item PG7.1 back to the Planning and Growth Management Committee, for further consideration, together with the following motions:

Moved by Councillor Josh Matlow 

1. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to consult with and inform Residents' Associations and other interested community members on issues related to the implementation of the Midrise Buildings Performance Standards in the first quarter of 2016. 

2. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to consult with Residents' Associations and other interested community members on future locations for Secondary Plans, Area Plans and other comprehensive Planning frameworks. 

3.  City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to report to the Planning and Growth Management Committee on the feasibility of including the initiatives in Recommendations 1 and 2 above in the City Planning 2016 work plan. 

Moved by Councillor Frank Di Giorgio 

City Council amend Planning and Growth Management Committee Recommendation 1 by adding two new parts so that Recommendation 1 would now read: 

1.  City Council direct that Performance Standard #1 of the Mid-Rise Buildings Performance Standards be amended by: 

a.  including a 0.8:1 ratio (or 16 metre height limit) in Character Areas as defined in the Avenues and Character Area Map, as revised, which have 20m right-of-ways, as shown on Map (3) of the Official Plan; 

b.  including a 0.8:1 ratio (or 21.6 metre height limit) in Bloor West Village, defined as the stretch of Bloor Street between Jane Street and Clendenan Avenue; 

c.   including a provision that the maximum density on major streets not designated as Avenues or mixed use areas not exceed eighty percent of the density available on the same lands if the lands were located on an Avenue; 

d.  including a provision that the measurement of the 45 degree angular plane on the front of a building in a Commercial Residential zone or Apartment Residential zone with commercial at grade begin at a height that is equal to sixty percent of the street right-of-way on which the lot has frontage. 

Moved by Councillor Sarah Doucette

a. City Council amend Planning and Growth Management Committee Recommendation 1 by adding the words "excluding areas that have a local planning study that speaks to different heights, or existing zoning permission that exceeds 16m;" so that the recommendation now reads as follows: 

1.  City Council direct that Performance Standard #1 of the Mid-Rise Buildings Performance Standards be amended by: 

a.  including a 0.8:1 ratio (or 16 metre height limit) in Character Areas as defined in the Avenues and Character Area Map, as revised, which have 20m right-of-ways, as shown on Map (3) of the Official Plan, excluding areas that have a local planning study that speaks to different heights, or existing zoning permission that exceeds 16m; and 

and 

b.  City Council adopt the following recommendations contained in the supplementary report (October 27, 2015) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning [PG7.1a], with recommendation 2 amended to include the words "and City Council direct City staff to report to the Planning and Growth Management Committee on the issues raised by the deputants as part of the larger Official Plan Review, anticipated in the third or fourth Quarter of 2016" so that the recommendations now read as follows: 

1.  Council direct City staff to reinforce the intent of Zoning By-Law 569-2013 provisions by stating in the Mid-Rise Building Performance Standards that habitable space is discouraged above the maximum allowable building height. 

2.  Council direct City staff to include the list of issues raised by deputants at the October 8, 2015 Planning and Growth Management Committee meeting, as summarized in Attachment 1, to the report's 'Recommended Actions' section of Attachment 1 as part of a future work plan that further evaluates the success of the Mid-Rise Performance Standards, and City Council direct City staff to report to the Planning and Growth Management Committee on the issues raised by the deputants as part of the larger Official Plan Review, anticipated in the third or fourth Quarter of 2016.

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Committee Recommendations

The Planning and Growth Management Committee recommends that: 

1.  City Council direct that Performance Standard #1 of the Mid-Rise Buildings Performance Standards be amended by:

a.  including a 0.8:1 ratio (or 16 metre height limit) in Character Areas as defined in the Avenues and Character Area Map, as revised, which have 20m right-of-ways, as shown on Map (3) of the Official Plan; and 

b.  including a 0.8:1 ratio (or 21.6 metre height limit) in Bloor West Village, defined as the stretch of Bloor St. between Jane St. and Clendenan Ave. 

2.  City Council authorize City Planning staff to make minor adjustments to the Mid-Rise Buildings Performance Standards, as amended by Recommendation 1, and as set out in Attachment 1, Chart of Comments and Recommended Actions, to the report (August 28, 2015) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning. 

3.  City Council authorize City Planning staff to stylistically format the updated guidelines into the City of Toronto urban design guideline template to be used in the review of mid-rise building development proposals where appropriate. 

4. City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to continue the development of draft built form policies for the purpose of public consultations that include policies for mid-rise buildings and to report to the Planning and Growth Management Committee in the fourth quarter of 2016 with respect to such potential Official Plan policies.