Item - 2020.CC27.7

City Council on December 16, 17 and 18, 2020, adopted the following:

1. City Council adopt the confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (December 8, 2020) from the City Solicitor.

2. City Council authorize the public release of:

a.  confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (December 8, 2020) from the City Solicitor; and

b. Confidential Attachment 2 to the report (December 8, 2020) from the City Solicitor.

3.  City Council direct that the balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (December 8, 2020) from the City Solicitor remain confidential, as it contains advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege.

The confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (December 8, 2020) from the City Solicitor were adopted by City Council and are now public, as follows:

1.  City Council authorize the City Solicitor to attend the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal in support of a revised settlement of the appeal related to 16 Kirtling Place on terms set out in a letter dated September 28, 2020 from Kagan Shastri LLP and substantially in the form of Architectural Drawings prepared by Richard Wengle Architect Inc. attached as Confidential Attachment 2 to the report (December 8, 2020) from the City Solicitor.

2.  City Council direct the City Solicitor to request the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal to withhold the issuance of its Order in connection with the Zoning By-law Amendment until such time as:

a.  the Zoning By-law Amendments are in a final form satisfactory to the City Solicitor and the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning;

b.  the owner has addressed the comments in the Engineering and Construction Services memo dated December 24, 2019, as applicable, to the satisfaction of the Chief Engineer and Executive Director, Engineering and Construction Services; and

c.  the owner has addressed the comments in the Parks, Forestry and Recreation Urban Forestry memo dated December 20, 2019, as applicable, to the satisfaction of the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation.

Confidential Attachment 2 to the report (December 8, 2020) from the City Solicitor is now public and can be accessed under Background Information (City Council).

The balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (December 8, 2020) from the City Solicitor remains confidential in accordance with the provisions of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, as it contains advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege.