Item - 2023.TE6.4

The Toronto and East York Community Council recommends that:

1. City Council amend Zoning By-law 569-2013 for the lands at 310, 320 and 330 Front Street West, substantially in accordance with the draft Zoning By-law Amendment included as Attachment 5 to the report (June 6, 2023) from the Acting Director, Community Planning, Toronto and East York District.  

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

The Toronto and East York Community Council held a statutory public meeting on June 22, 2023 and notice was given in accordance with the Planning Act.

This report reviews and recommends approval of the application to amend City of Toronto Zoning By-law 569-2013 to permit the redevelopment of the southeastern portion of the site at 310-330 Front Street West with a 65-storey (220 metres, including the mechanical penthouse) mixed-use building. The proposed building would contain 578 residential units and a non-residential gross floor area of 11,330 square metres, comprised of retail uses on the ground floor and office uses within floors 2-10. The remaining two non-residential buildings on the site, labelled as Building A and Building B on the attached Site Plan Drawing (see Attachment 6) would remain in their current form. An existing underground parking garage shared by all three buildings would be retained and reconfigured. As well, the existing atrium connecting all three buildings is proposed to be replaced with a smaller glass atrium along with an enhanced outdoor landscaped area within the remainder of the space surrounding the three buildings.

The proposed development would result in a built form that fits within the existing and planned context including the Union Park development on the south side of Front Street West and a mixed-use development to the immediate north at 277 Wellington Street West. The proposal would also result in a significantly improved public realm along both Front Street West and Windsor Street, including a new traffic signal at the intersection of these two streets, improving pedestrian safety.

The purposed of this Supplementary Report is to modify the recommendations of the Decision Report dated June 5, 2023, from the Director, Community Planning, Toronto and East York District, by deleting Recommendations 3 and 4. Recommendations 3 and 4 were required for the applicant to address various site servicing and transportation matters prior to introducing the necessary Bills to City Council for enactment. Instead, a Holding provision is proposed in the draft Zoning By-law Amendment (attached as Attachment 5 of the Decision Report) to address the outstanding servicing and transportation matters.