Item - 2024.TE16.75

Councillor Paula Fletcher recommends that:

1. City Council direct Deputy City Manager, Development & Growth Services, in consultation with the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning and the City Solicitor to include consideration of the following in their review of Garden Suite zoning permissions for Parkmount Road homes that back onto Craven Road between Danforth Avenue and Hanson Street as requested for PH14.13:
 

a. previous public consultation on Garden Suites or Laneway Suites on through lots during the statutory consultations on those by-law amendments;
 

b. internal City Planning guidance and interpretation of the Garden Suite and Laneway Suite By-law, including at the Committee of Adjustment;
 

c. conformity with recent or proposed Provincial Planning changes;
 

d. any potential modifications to the Zoning By-law to better integrate garden suites onto Craven Road;
 

e. appropriate setbacks for Garden Suites from Craven Road; and
 

f. impacts, if any, of any changes to other areas of the City.

2. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to report back to Toronto and East York Community Council once that additional work is complete, which report may include a recommendation to amend the zoning permissions for garden suites for properties that back onto the portion of Craven Road from Danforth Avenue to Hanson Street.
 

3. City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to take all necessary steps to advise interested parties that this matter may not be heard at the October 24th Toronto and East York Community Council meeting.

The direction from City Council at its July 2024 meeting on PH14.13 has generated much interest and attention. City Planning were initially directed to report to the October 24th meeting of Toronto and East York Community Council.  However after the community consultation meeting on September 19th a number of important issues were raised that require additional consideration in the report. 

Reporting to the October 24th meeting of TEYCC will simply not allow for an in-depth analysis of all the information that has been raised in the short time since that meeting.  This would also allow for City Staff to meet with residents of Craven Road and Parkmount Road.