Item - 2017.TE23.65

The Toronto and East York Community Council deferred consideration of this Item until such time as the Director, Community Planning, Toronto and East York District has received written feedback from and has consulted with Waterfront Toronto on the subject development application.

The applicant, Castelpoint Numa, has submitted a rezoning application on behalf of the landowners (two Ontario numbered companies) of the subject site.  The application proposes to develop the subject site at 309 Cherry Street with an 11-storey building along Cherry Street and a 52-storey building atop a podium base ranging in height from 4 to 12-storeys along Commissioners Street and the proposed future Foundry Street.  In addition, the proposal provides for the creation of a 15 metre east-west private road along the north portion of the site and publicly accessible open space in the interior of the site.  The proposal comprises 71,614.3 square metres of residential gross floor area (including 1,013 residential units) and 1,423.5 square metres of non-residential gross floor area, which results in an FSI of 7.26 times the area of the lot.  The total site area is 10,055.1 square metres. 737 vehicular and 1,038 bicycle parking spaces are proposed.

This report provides information and preliminary issues from City Planning staff on the above-noted application and seeks Community Council's directions on further review of the applications and on the community consultation process.  The preliminary issues identified with the proposal, in particular the prematurity of the application, the proposed building heights, and the relationship to adjacent heritage properties, are significant.

A Community Consultation meeting is anticipated to be held in the spring of 2017.  The final report is targeted for the summer of 2017.  The target date assumes that the applicant will provide all required information in a timely manner.