Item - 2024.NY14.6

North York Community Council recommends that:

1. City Council refuse the application for an Official Plan Amendment (Application Number 24 120678 NNY 15 OZ) at 1802 Bayview Avenue for the reasons identified in the Report (May 6, 2024) from the Director, Community Planning, North York District.

2. City Council direct the City Solicitor to request that, in the event of an appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal, the Tribunal withhold its final order, until the following conditions are met:

a. the final form and content of the draft Official Plan Amendment are to the satisfaction of the City Solicitor and the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning;
 

b. the owner has satisfactorily addressed the Engineering and Construction Services matters in the Engineering and Construction Services Memorandum dated August 16, 2023, or as may be updated, all to the satisfaction of the Chief Engineer and Executive Director;
 

c. the owner has satisfactorily addressed Transportation Services matters in the Transportation Services memo dated January 19, 2024, or as may be updated in response to further submissions filed by the Owner, all to the satisfaction of the Chief Engineer and  Executive Director; and
 

d. the owner has submitted a revised Transportation Demand Management Plan acceptable to, and to the satisfaction of the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning and the General Manager, Transportation Services and that matters arising from such Plan be secured, if required.
 

3. City Council authorize the City Solicitor and other appropriate staff to take any necessary steps to implement City Council's decision.

This application proposes to amend Map 21-3 of the Yonge-Eglinton Secondary Plan (Official Plan Amendment 405) to remove the lands from the Secondary Zone of the Transit Nodes and add them instead to the Station Area Core. By doing so, this will help to facilitate a proposal for a 46-storey (148.6 metres, plus 8 metres mechanical penthouse for a total of 156.6 metres) residential building with 28,576 square metres of residential gross floor area representing 419 residential units, and 384 square metres of ground floor retail fronting onto Bayview Avenue, as the Station Area Core is intended to provide for more intensified development than the Secondary Zone. The development proposes a total gross floor area of 28,960 square metres with a floor space index of 20.5.

This report recommends refusal of the amendment as it would facilitate a greater level of intensification than what has been envisioned through the Plan’s policies and through the identification of specific transit nodes, which has area specific considerations.