Item - 2025.PH25.16

Tracking Status

This item was considered by Planning and Housing Committee on October 30, 2025 and was adopted with amendments.

PH25.16 - Summary of Development Application Fee and Related Resources for New Live Music Venues

Decision Type:: ACTION

Status:: Amended

Wards:: All

Committee Decision

The Planning and Housing Committee:

1. Request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, the Executive Director, Development Review, and the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, to continue to explore options to support the sustainability of existing and new live music venues, including a review of development application fees and options to reduce and/or subsidize those fees, through the inter-divisional City “Sound Check” team’s efforts as endorsed by the Toronto Music Advisory Committee.

Origin

(October 7, 2025) Letter from the Toronto Music Advisory Committee

Summary

At its meeting on October 7, 2025 the Toronto Music Advisory Committee considered item MA8.2.

Summary from the presentation (October 7, 2025) from Colin Wolfe, Senior Planner, Community Planning:

Development Review will provide an update on planning-related application fees and related resources in response to Item MA7.1 at the May 15, 2025 meeting of the Toronto Music Advisory Committee.

Background Information

(October 7, 2025) Decision Letter from the Toronto Music Advisory Committee on Summary of Development Application Fee and Related Resources for New Live Music Venues
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/ph/bgrd/backgroundfile-259299.pdf

Communications

(October 30, 2025) E-mail from Nicole Corrado (PH.New)

Motions

Motion to Amend Item moved by Councillor Brad Bradford (Carried)

That:

The Planning and Housing Committee request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, the Executive Director, Development Review, and the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, to continue to explore options to support the sustainability of existing and new live music venues, including a review of development application fees and options to reduce and/or subsidize those fees, through the inter-divisional City “Sound Check” team’s efforts as endorsed by the Toronto Music Advisory Committee.