Item - 2025.CC29.7

City Council on April 23 and 24, 2025, adopted the following:

1. City Council adopt the confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (April 8, 2025) from the City Solicitor.

2. City Council authorize the public release of the confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 and Confidential Appendix A to the report (April 8, 2025) from the City Solicitor.

3. City Council direct that the balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (April 8, 2025) from the City Solicitor remain confidential at the discretion of the City Solicitor, as it contains advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege.

The confidential instructions to staff in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (April 8, 2025) from the City Solicitor were adopted by City Council and are now public as follows:

1. City Council accept the without prejudice offer to settle dated April 4, 2025 set out in Confidential Appendix A to the report (April 8, 2025) from the City Solicitor and direct the City Solicitor to attend at the Ontario Land Tribunal in support of the settlement.

2. City Council instruct the City Solicitor to request the Ontario Land Tribunal to withhold its Order until the City Solicitor has advised that:

a. the final form of the Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments are to the satisfaction of the Executive Director, Development Review and the City Solicitor, including any appropriate holding (H) provisions;

b. acceptable site and concept landscape plans have been provided to the satisfaction of the Chief Engineer and Executive Director, Engineering and Construction Services and the General Manager, Transportation Services for the required streetscape works along King Street West and Cowan Avenue (including the reduction of the curb radius at the northeast corner of the intersection, in accordance with the City’s Curb Radii Design Guidelines);

c. any other required plans, reports and studies have been revised to the satisfaction of the Executive Director, Development Review, the Chief Engineer and Executive Director, Engineering and Construction Services, the General Manager, Transportation Services and the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services with revisions, as may be necessary, implemented as part of the amending Zoning By-law, to the satisfaction of the Executive Director, Development Review; and

d. City Council has approved Rental Housing Demolition Application 23 213845 STE 04 RH under Chapter 667 of the Toronto Municipal Code pursuant to Section 111 of the City of Toronto Act, 2006 to permit the demolition of the existing rental housing.

3. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to take all necessary actions to implement City Council's decision.

Confidential Appendix A to the report (April 8, 2025) from the City Solicitor is now public and can be accessed under Background Information (City Council).

The balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (April 8, 2025) from the City Solicitor remains confidential at this time in accordance with the provisions of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, as it contains advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege. The balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (April 8, 2025) from the City Solicitor will be made public at the discretion of the City Solicitor.