Item - 2021.TE29.32

The Toronto and East York Community Council directed:

1.  Staff schedule a community consultation meeting for the application located at 682, 686, 688, 720, 740 and 742 Broadview Avenue together with the Ward Councillor.

2.  Notice for the community consultation meeting be given to landowners and residents within 120 metres of the application site, and to additional residents, institutions and owners to be determined in consultation with the Ward Councillor, with any additional mailing costs to be borne by the applicant.

3. The Director, Community Planning, Toronto and East York District, in consultation with appropriate divisions, to:

a. Invite Staff from the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, Urban Forestry, a Senior Environmental Planner from Strategic Policy and Research, the Housing Secretariat, and Transportation Services to the Community Consultation Meeting which City Planning will be hosting in the first quarter of 2022.

b. In the review of the applications, explore the potential for the following:

i. The inclusion of long-term affordable and supportive housing units;

ii. The potential to integrate public parking into the development proposal;

iii. The potential to pursue the highest tier of the Toronto Green Standard;

c. Review the capacity within the public school system, in consultation with all Toronto School Boards, to clarify existing and projected requirements to support new and existing residents in the area.

d. Work with Transportation Services to assess the completeness and accuracy of the traffic analysis put forward by the Applicant.

e. Confirm through the Final Report how the proposal responds to the Province's direction for growth around Major Transit Station Areas (MTSA) including:

i. the origins of the Provincial Policy

ii. clarify what constitutes an Major Transit Station Areas (MTSA)

iii. stipulate the legislative requirements the City must conform to with respect to an Major Transit Station Areas (MTSA)

iv. the specifics on the number of jobs/people per acre

v. confirming the geographic zone of the Major Transit Station Areas (MTSA) at Broadview Station

vi. confirm the existing jobs and residents in the Broadview Station Node, as identified in the Danforth Study work

f. Request City Planning to provide a list of all of the rezoning applications from this applicant and specify the number of those projects which they have gone on to build prior to the Community Consultation Meeting.

g. Request City Planning  take into consideration all of the questions and comments put forward by the 180 residents who attended the Information Session hosted by the local Councillor on November 18, 2021.

h. Request Urban Forestry to provide a detailed report on the number, type and sizes of all trees impacted by the applicant's proposal at the Community Consultation meeting.

i. Request the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) to provide full comment on issues related to the top of bank and to development on or adjacent to the valley and ravine lands. 

This report provides information and identifies a preliminary set of issues regarding the application located at 682, 686, 688, 720, 740 and 742 Broadview Avenue (the Site). The application proposes to replace the existing grocery store with a 35-storey mixed-use residential building containing a grocery store at the ground level. The application is preserving the three heritage buildings onsite, and providing onsite parkland and Privately-Owned Publicly Accessible Spaces (POPS)  leading to a new connection to the Don Valley Ravine system to the west of the Site.

The application has been circulated to all appropriate agencies and City divisions for comment. City Planning staff will proceed to schedule a community consultation meeting for the application with the Ward Councillor.