Item - 2022.NY29.4

North York Community Council recommends that:

1. City Council adopt Official Plan Amendment 560 substantially in accordance with Attachment 2 to the report (December 1, 2021) from the Director, Community Planning, North York District. 

2. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to bring forward Urban Design Guidelines and a Streetscape Plan for the Sheppard Lansing Secondary Plan and the Sheppard Willowdale Secondary Plan areas.

3. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to Official Plan Amendment 560 as may be required.

4. City Council authorize the City Solicitor and appropriate City staff to take such necessary steps, as required, to implement City Council's decision. 

The North York Community Council held a statutory public meeting on January 6, 2022 and notice was given in accordance with the Planning Act.

This report recommends the adoption of the Sheppard Willowdale Secondary Plan ("The Plan"). The Plan will replace the eastern segment of the existing Sheppard Avenue Commercial Area Secondary Plan (the "SACSP"). The current review of the eastern portion of the SACASP represents Phase two of the Secondary Plan review and consists of lands primarily fronting on Sheppard Avenue East between Bonnington Place and Clairtrell Road ("Plan Area"). 

The Plan establishes a comprehensive planning framework that sets out the long-term vision for the delivery of complete communities that provides a mix of jobs, housing opportunities, and a wide variety of locally accessible services, shops, and restaurants, that support daily living for the local community. 

The Plan builds upon the existing "commercial district" realized through the 1987 SACASP and carries forward a full range of land uses within mixed-use, mid-rise buildings that frame Sheppard Avenue East and contribute to the commercial activity and the visual quality of the public realm.

The Plan is the outcome of public consultations with local residents, businesses, and stakeholders, in addition to input and feedback from various City Divisions and Agencies.  The planning framework includes updated boundaries, land uses, built form, mobility, parks, green infrastructure, and special policy areas with an emphasis on providing a clear direction for appropriate transitions to Neighbourhoods and an improved public realm and streetscape. 

The Plan has regard for matters of provincial interest under Section 2 of the Planning Act, is consistent with the Provincial Policy Statement (2020), and conforms with A Place to Grow: Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (2020).  The Secondary Plan is consistent with the general intent of the City's Official Plan.