Item - 2024.SC17.1

The Scarborough Community Council recommends that:

1. City Council amend City of Toronto Zoning By-law 569-2013, as amended, for the lands at 1151 Markham Road substantially in accordance with the draft Zoning By-law Amendment attached as Attachment 7 to the report (October 16, 2024) from the Director, Community Planning, Scarborough 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.

3. City Council direct the Executive Director, Development Review, in consultation with the local Councillor and the City Solicitor, to continue to work with the applicant to explore an in-kind community benefit package pursuant to Section 37(6) of the Planning Act that includes the provision of affordable housing units within the proposed development and to report back to City Council for further instruction on any offer of in-kind community benefits made by the owner.

The Scarborough Community Council held a statutory public meeting on November 1, 2024, and notice was given in accordance with the Planning Act.

This application proposes to amend Zoning By-law 569-2013, as amended, to permit the redevelopment of the lands at 1151 Markham Road. The proposal contemplates a 44-storey mixed-use building with 455 residential units, retail space at the ground floor and a 266 square metre privately owned publicly-accessible open space (POPS). The existing structures on the site would be demolished for the redevelopment of the site.

The proposed development is consistent with the Provincial Policy Statement (2020) and the Provincial Planning Statement (2024) and conforms with A Place to Grow: Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (2020) as well as the City's Official Plan. The proposal contributes to an emerging intensifying mixed use community at the southeast corner of Markham Road and Ellesmere Road. It conforms with the Official Plan policies for Mixed Use Areas as further articulated by the Markham-Ellesmere Revitalization Study Urban Design Guidelines and Conceptual Master Plan, and Site and Area Specific Policy 322.

This report reviews and recommends approval of the application to amend the Zoning By-law.  The recommended Zoning By-law Amendment includes a holding provision (H) on the lands which will remain in place until the owner has submitted a Servicing Report, Stormwater Management Report and Conceptual Servicing Plan demonstrating the  infrastructure required for the proposed development is in place and/or arrangement made to secure the necessary improvements, including any necessary financially secured agreements, all to the satisfaction of the Chief Engineer, Engineering Construction Services.