Item - 2022.PH35.5

The Planning and Housing Committee recommends that:

1. City Council amend city-wide By-law 569-2013, and former City of Toronto By-law 438-86 for the areas identified in Attachment 1 to the report (June 15, 2022) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, substantially in accordance with the recommended Zoning By-law Amendments attached as Attachments 3 and 4 to the report (June 15, 2022) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning.

2. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the Zoning By-law Amendments as may be required.

The Planning and Housing Committee:

1. Authorized the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to use the proposed Official Plan Amendment, containing draft delineations for Protected Major Transit Station Areas at Avenue and Chaplin stations, in Attachment 5 to the report (June 15, 2022) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning as a basis for consultation and bring forward a Final Report in the first quarter of 2023.

The Planning and Housing Committee held a statutory public meeting on July 5, 2022 and notice was given in accordance with the Planning Act.

The Midtown Zoning Review is one of three initiatives to implement the Yonge-Eglinton Secondary Plan (Official Plan Amendment 405, also known as "OPA 405"), collectively known as "Ready, Set, Midtown". The other initiatives are the Midtown Infrastructure Implementation Strategy (MIIS) and the Midtown Parks and Public Realm Strategy.

The Midtown Zoning Review is intended to implement the policies of OPA 405 via permissions in zoning. The purpose of this report is to bring forward recommended zoning by-law amendments to implement the Avenue Midtown Transit Station Area policies of Official Plan Amendment 405. The report outlines the process undertaken to arrive at the recommended zoning by-law amendments, including engagement and consultation.

OPA 405 requires the areas within the Avenue and Chaplin Midtown Transit Station Areas to achieve a planned minimum of 200 residents and jobs per hectare. This minimum can be achieved as described in this report and as enacted through the recommended zoning by-law amendment.

The analysis outlined in this report will , in part, be the basis for engagement and consultation on draft Protected Major Transit Station Areas (PMTSA) delineations for Avenue and Chaplin Stations to be undertaken through the Municipal Comprehensive review and reported on in 2023. Protected Major Transit Station Areas will be delineated for these two station areas in the second half of 2022, following public consultation, and reported out in early 2023. The remaining PMTSAs in the Yonge Eglinton Secondary Plan area (Eglinton, Leaside, Mount Pleasant and Davisville) are being reported out under separate cover as part of a city wide report at the July 5, 2022 Planning and Housing Committee meeting.

The recommended zoning by-law amendments are consistent with the Official Plan, Provincial Policy Statement, and conforms to A Place to Grow: Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe.