Item - 2018.NY32.9

North York Community Council:

1. Deferred consideration of the item until its first meeting in 2019.

The applicant has appealed their application for Zoning By-law Amendments to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) due to Council's failure to make a decision for the Zoning By-law Amendment application within the prescribed time period under the Planning Act. The purpose of this report is to seek Council's direction for staff representation at the LPAT hearing. A prehearing or hearing has not yet been scheduled at the time of writing of this report.

This application proposes to amend the former City of North York Zoning By-law No. 7625 and the City of Toronto Zoning By-law No. 569-2013 for the land  at 3019 Dufferin Street to permit the construction of an 8-storey (26.5 metres high) mixed use building with retail/commercial uses at grade. The existing one storey commercial building would be demolished. The proposed building would have a total Gross Floor Area (GFA) of 7,021 square metres including 412 square metres of retail uses on the ground floor and would contain 104 dwelling units. Also proposed is 191 square metres of indoor amenity, 353 square metres of outdoor amenity and two levels of underground parking comprised of 102 vehicular parking spaces and 112 bicycle spaces. The proposed building would have a Floor Space Index (FSI) of 3.47 times the area of the lot.

The purpose of this report is to recommend that the City Solicitor, together with City Planning staff, attend the LPAT hearing in support of the current proposal, provided that outstanding issues identified in this report are satisfactorily addressed to the Director of Community Planning, North York District and the City Solicitor. The outstanding issues include providing adequate servicing for the project, improved site organization and massing along Dufferin Street, and improving the building setback and transition along Claver Avenue towards the residential area to the east. 

The proposed development is consistent with the Provincial Policy Statement (2014) and conforms and does not conflict with the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (2017), and the Official Plan.