Item - 2020.GL14.14

The General Government and Licensing Committee recommends that:

1. City Council authorize the granting of licenses, easements and consents, and entering into of other agreements, as outlined below, on terms satisfactory to the Director, Transaction Services, Corporate Real Estate Management, in accordance with the confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 22, 2020) from the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management, to facilitate temporary and permanent utility relocations as may be required in connection with the Algonquin Island Bridge Rehabilitation Project (the "Project"):

a.  Licences to existing utility providers (the "Utility Providers");

b.  Easements to Utility Providers, subject to any such easements for terms of 21 years or more having been declared surplus and the real estate disposal process set out in Chapter 213 of the City of Toronto Municipal Code complied with, and other agreements with Utility Providers relating to their ongoing use of lands on Ward's Island, Algonquin Island, and the channel in between Ward's Island and Algonquin Island; and

c.  Consents, as lessee pursuant to the Toronto Islands Residential Community Stewardship Act, 1993, to the grant of licences, easements, and other property interests by the Province of Ontario, as the owner of certain lands on Ward's and Algonquin Islands, to Utility Providers.

2. City Council authorize amendments to be made to the existing lease agreements with Toronto Island Canoe Club, Sunfish Cut Boat Club, and Queen City Yacht Club (the "Boat Club Tenants"), including but not limited to temporarily reducing the leased premises in each case, and authorize the entering into new lease agreements with the Boat Club Tenants where appropriate, as may be required in connection with the Project, on terms satisfactory to the Director, Transaction Services, Corporate Real Estate Management.

3. City Council authorize severally each of the Director, Transaction Services, Corporate Real Estate Management and the Manager, Transaction Services, Corporate Real Estate Management to execute agreements and other documents relating to the transactions identified in Recommendations 1 and 2 above on behalf of the City.

4. City Council adopt the confidential instructions to staff contained in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 22, 2020) from the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management.

5. City Council direct that Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 22, 2020) from the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management remain confidential, as it relates to a proposed or pending disposition of land by the City, and a position to be applied to negotiations to be carried on by the City.

This report seeks authority for the Director, Transaction Services, Corporate Real Estate Management, to approve certain licenses, easements, and consents required for the relocation of existing utilities, and amendments to existing leases with community boat clubs, as necessary for the Algonquin Island Bridge Rehabilitation Project (the Project").