Item - 2025.GG24.16

The General Government Committee recommends that:  

1. City Council, as approving authority under the Expropriations Act, approve the expropriation of the property interests set out in Appendix A (the "Property Requirements") to the report (September 5, 2025) from the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management, and as identified on the draft reference plan attached as Appendix C to the report (September 5, 2025) from the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management. 

2. City Council authorize the City, as expropriating authority under the Expropriations Act, to take all necessary steps to comply with the Expropriations Act, including but not limited to the preparation and registration of an Expropriation Plan(s), and service of Notices of Expropriation, Notices of Election and Notices of Possession, as may be required.

3. City Council authorize severally each of the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management, and the Director, Real Estate Services to prepare, execute and serve Offers of Compensation based on a report appraising the market value of the Property Requirements in accordance with the requirements of the Expropriation Act.

4. City Council direct that the confidential information remains confidential until such time as all property transactions related to the Project have been completed and there has been a final determination of the compensation payable in connection with expropriation claims relative to the Project, and authorize the public release of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (September 5, 2025) from the Executive Director, Corporate Real Estate Management thereafter in consultation with the City Solicitor.

On June 26 and 27, 2024, Toronto City Council authorized the initiation of expropriation proceedings for permanent and temporary easements in parts of the property municipally known as 396 St. Clair Avenue West for the purpose of constructing a permanent fire ventilation storage room at Toronto Transit Commission's St. Clair West Station (the "Project"). The Project forms a part of the Toronto Transit Commission's St. Clair West Station Fire Ventilation Upgrade Project.

This report relates to the second stage of the expropriation process. During the first stage and in accordance with the Expropriations Act, Notices of Application for Approval to Expropriate were served on all applicable "registered owners," and published in the newspaper. Parties with affected interests in the land had 30 days to request an inquiry into whether the proposed taking is fair, sound, and reasonably necessary. No requests were received within the 30-day period, and City Council may now approve the expropriation by this Stage 2 report. If authorized, an Expropriation Plan will be registered, and associated notices served. Statutory Offers of Compensation must be served prior to the City taking possession of the expropriated properties.

The property requirements are set out in Appendix A and shown on the draft reference plan attached as Appendix C.