Item - 2024.PH16.8

The Planning and Housing Committee:

1. Received the report (October 16, 2024) from the Executive Director, Development Review and Interim Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, for information.

This report provides an overview of the progress to date on the McCleary District Precinct Plan. The study is being undertaken by a project team led by CreateTO, working closely with the City of Toronto and Waterfront Toronto. Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments will accompany the Precinct Plan in a final report, targeted for early 2025.

The McCleary Precinct is bounded by the Don Roadway to the west, Commissioners Street to the south, Lake Shore Boulevard East to the north and Logan Avenue to the east. Of the developable land in the Precinct, approximately two-thirds is City of Toronto and CreateTO lands.

The McCleary District Precinct is envisioned to grow into a dense, urban mixed-use, mixed-income, complete community in the Port Lands. It also plays a unique role as a transitional area between the emerging mixed-use areas (the new island, formerly Villiers Island, and East Harbour) the Productions, Interactive and Creative ("PIC") employment-focussed districts (Turning Basin and Media City), as well as the port and industrial areas that continue to be instrumental to meeting city building objectives in the area (South Port and East Port).

The purpose of the study is to implement the policy direction in the Central Waterfront Secondary Plan, providing detailed design and implementation guidance for development in the Precinct. The study is sufficiently advanced to inform ongoing discussions about private lands in the Precinct with under-appeal development applications, in the context of Ontario Land Tribunal appeals with key information and exchange dates occurring through Q4 of 2024.