Item - 2016.TE17.64

The Toronto and East York Community Council directed:

1.  The following reports be brought back to Toronto and East York Community Council in the fourth quarter of 2016:

a.  A final report to amend the Official Plan, amend the retail and service uses in Section 12(2)270 of Zoning By-law 438-86, and Urban Design Guidelines for the Bathurst-Bloor Character Area from the Director, Community Planning, Toronto and East York District;

b.  A report on the feasibility and options to make improvements to Ed and Ann Mirvish Parkette to improve its function from the from the Director, Community Planning, Toronto and East York District in consultation with Parks, Forestry and Recreation staff; and

c.  A report on options to improve pedestrian crossings in the Bathurst-Bloor Character Area from the Director, Transportation Services, Toronto and East York District in consultation with the Director, Community Planning, Toronto and East York.

This report describes draft Official Plan policies and a proposed zoning by-law amendment for the Bathurst-Bloor Character Area and recommends that a statutory meeting be held in the fourth quarter of 2016.

The draft policies include:

-           conservation of heritage buildings and properties;

-           providing for transition to Neighbourhoods and to developments of lesser scale;

-           requirements for parkland dedication; and public realm improvements;

-           maintaining the prevailing two and three storey streetwall heights on Bloor and Bathurst Streets

-           increasing building height permissions to between six and nine stories in three of the four quadrants; and

-           allowing a greater level of intensification and height in the southwest quadrant (former Honest Ed's site).