Item - 2024.EX14.1

The Executive Committee recommends that:

1. City Council direct City staff to report to the Executive Committee on all aspects of the East Harbour Transit Oriented Community negotiations.

2. City Council amend Chapter 27, Council Procedures by suspending Section 27-16.5C(2) and 27-16.5D in respect of the statutory hearing required under the Planning Act for the subdivision application for East Harbour, being Application 16270078STE30SB and substituting a special rule to allow the Executive Committee to hold any statutory hearing required under the Planning Act for the subdivision application for East Harbour, being Application 16270078STE30SB, and to consider any appurtenant matters as may arise.

City staff plan to report to City Council in June on all aspects of the East Harbour Transit Oriented Community negotiations. This will represent the culmination of extensive negotiations with Cadillac Fairview and the Province of Ontario on several implementing agreements related to the development, including the draft Plan of Subdivision.  The draft Plan of Subdivision requires a statutory public meeting to be held by Planning and Housing Committee.

My recommendation would direct a full report on all aspects of the East Harbour Transit Oriented Communities negotiations to be considered by Executive Committee.  It is appropriate for the East Harbour report to go through Executive Committee because of the intergovernmental and financial implications for the City, including the commitments in the New Deal with the Province. 

Specifically, the recommendation would amend City Council’s procedures to allow Executive Committee to hold the statutory public meeting on the East Harbour draft Plan of Subdivision, thereby allowing Executive Committee and Council to consider all elements of the East Harbour negotiations at the same time.