Item - 2023.MM11.40

 City Council on October 11 and 12, 2023, adopted the following:

1. City Council pass a By-law pursuant to Section 252 of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, providing authority to enter into a Municipal Capital Facility Agreement and any other agreement that may be required, with Doug Philpott Inner City Children’s Tennis (the "Operator") for part of the property municipally known as 15 San Romanoway immediately adjacent to the facility used for other local community activities located at 15 San Romanoway (the “Premises”), with respect to the construction of a bubble over the tennis courts; with the City

a. for the purposes of:

i. declaring the premises a Municipal Capital Facility used for local community activities, primarily being free or low cost tennis programming;

ii. exempting the Premises from development charges otherwise owing pursuant to Article I of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 415 for the purpose of constructing a bubble over the existing tennis courts; and

iii. giving money to the Operator in the form of a credit towards the amount of the parkland levies owing pursuant to Article III of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 415; and

b. on terms satisfactory to the General Manager, Parks Forestry and Recreation including that:

i. the Premises be used primarily for local community activity, including that the Operator provide free or low cost tennis programming to local youth;

ii. the courts be made reasonably available to the public and in particular those in priority neighbourhoods at a low cost when not in use for programming;

iii. local instructors continue to be hired to facilitate the tennis programming at the facility;

iv. the Premises be for the purposes of the City and for public use; and

v. the City have the right to recover the benefits provided to the Operator should the use of the Premises change.

with the exemptions being effective for the purpose of obtaining a building permit from the latest of the by-law is enacted or the date of execution of the Municipal Capital Facility Agreement.

2. City Council direct the City Clerk to give written notice of the By-law to the Minister of Finance.

3. City Council direct the General Manager, Parks, Forestry and Recreation, the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and the City Solicitor to take any necessary steps to implement City Council's decision.