Item - 2025.MM29.23

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

1. City Council pass a By-law pursuant to Section 252 of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, providing authority to:

a. enter into a Municipal Capital Facility Agreement and any other agreement that may be required, with Armenian Community Centre of Toronto (doing business as “Armenian Youth Centre”; the “Operator”) for part of the property municipally known as 50 Hallcrown Place (the “Premises”) with the City, on terms satisfactory to the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture including that the premises are primarily used for local cultural activities and that the City has the right to recover the benefits provided to the Operator should the use of the Premises change;

b. exempt the Premises from development charges otherwise owing pursuant to Chapter 415 Article I of the Toronto Municipal Code; and

c. giving money to the Operator in the form of a credit towards the amount of the parkland levies owing pursuant to Chapter 415 Article III of the Toronto Municipal Code;

with the exemptions being effective for the purpose of obtaining a building permit from the latest of the by-law is enacted or the date of execution of the Municipal Capital Facility Agreement.

2. City Council pass a resolution that the above Municipal Capital Facility is for the purposes of the City and is for public use.

3. City Council direct the City Clerk to give written notice of the By-law to the Minister of Finance, the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation, the Toronto District School Board, the Toronto Catholic District School Board, le Conseil scolaire Viamonde, and le Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir.

4. City Council direct the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and the City Solicitor to take any necessary steps to implement City Council's decision.