Item - 2025.NY26.17

North York Community Council:

1. Amended Municipal Code Chapter 880, Fire Routes, to remove the previous designation of the part or parts of the private road or roads shown on the site plans previously filed with the Fire Chief in respect of the municipal address, 1090 Don Mills Road; and replaced this designation with a new designation of the part or parts of the private road or roads shown on the site plans recently filed with the Fire Chief in respect of the municipal address 1090 Don Mills Road, which reflect the current physical conditions on these premises.

2. Authorized the Fire Chief and City Solicitor to take the appropriate action to remove the previous designated Fire Route and to make a new designated Fire Route.

To obtain North York Community Council approval for the amendment of the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 880 (“Fire Route By-law”) to remove a location previously designated as a fire route within the meaning of the Fire Route By-law. Specifically, this report seeks to remove the location previously designated as a fire route with respect to 1090 Don Mills Road and add a new designation of a fire route on these same premises on private roads under the new site plans.

Toronto Fire Services uses designated fire routes as a key mechanism in regulating fire prevention, protection from fires by ensuring access for fire service vehicles. In 2014, portions of the private roads on the premises municipally known as 1090 Don Mills Road were designated as a fire route within the meaning of the Fire Route By-law, for the purposes of ensuring fire safety for these premises. Due to proposed modifications of the physical structures located on 1090 Don Mills Road, the fire route previously designated in 2014 with respect to said premises will no longer be an effective fire route for the purposes of fire prevention. As such, the Fire Chief and General Manager, Toronto Fire Services (“Fire Chief”) believes this previously-designated fire route should no longer be designated as a fire route for purposes of the City’s Fire Route By-law.

However, the physical structures on 1090 Don Mills Road, in the opinion of the Fire Chief, still require a designated fire route to assist in regulating fire prevention. The Fire Chief has received new modified site plans reflecting the updated status of 1090 Don Mills Road, and has determined that those parts of the private road or roads shown on modified site plans filed with the Fire Chief in respect of 1090 Don Mills Road establish an effective fire route and as such should be designated as a fire route for purposes of the City’s Fire Route By law.