Item - 2026.MM42.44

That:

1. City Council request the City Manager to negotiate with the Government of Canada and/or Province of Ontario to structure the Canada-Ontario Partnership to Build - Development Charge Reduction Program as a rebate incentive to eligible developments, and to include this in the expected report back to City Council in July 2026.

That:

1. City Council direct that the Development Charge Reduction Program and the Purpose Bult Rental Housing Incentives program incentives for eligible developments be identified in the Financial Impact section of individual development approval staff reports in instances when this information is known.

That:

1. City Council direct the Executive Director, Development Review, to identify within the individual development approval staff reports the commensurate reduction in density to eligible projects as a result of the application of the Development Charge Reduction program.

That:

1. City Council direct the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, in coordination with the Executive Director, Development Review, and the Executive Director, Housing Secretariat, to prepare an annual report to City Council which lists the successful application details and amounts of all development projects which access the incentives programs.

That:

1. City Council request the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing to impose a time limit on development applications that have been approved through the City's planning process yet the development site has sat vacant for a long period of time, for which no building permit application has been received.

That:

1. City Council direct the City Manager, in consultation with the City Solicitor and the Chief People Officer, to enter into negotiations for Voluntary Recognition Agreements in Toronto's non-industrial, -commercial and -institutional (ICI) construction sectors with the following unions or, where the union with bargaining rights in the non-ICI sector is a separate local of the same international union, their appropriate non-ICI counterpart, and with any corresponding accredited Employer Associations: Labourers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local 183; Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers (Insulators); International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers (Ironworkers); United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry (Plumbers); International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (Electricians); International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Local 285 formerly known as Sheet Metal Workers' International Association, Local 285; International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, Local 2; International Union of Painters and Allied Trades – Glaziers Division (Glaziers); and International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (Painters), and that:
 

a. the Voluntary Recognition Agreement with LIUNA Local 183 will recognize LIUNA Local 183's bargaining rights in the Residential, Heavy Construction, Road Work, and Sewers and Watermain only, and will expressly specify that the City does not recognize LIUNA Local 183's bargaining rights in any other sector that is not already recognized;

b. the Voluntary Recognition Agreements with each of the other eight building trades locals listed above will recognize their respective bargaining rights in the Residential sector only, and will expressly confirm that recognition applies to the Residential sector only and does not alter or expand any existing ICI sector recognition or collective agreement where such recognition or collective agreement already exists;

c. each Voluntary Recognition Agreement will include language to give effect to the following:

1. construction phase only, not the operation or maintenance of completed buildings;

2. direct City procurement only, excluding projects where the City's role is limited to capital contribution, grants, land conveyance, or loan guarantees to third-party developers;

3. eligibility of non-union general contractors to bid on City projects, provided covered trade work is subcontracted to union-signatory employers;

4. project thresholds and exemptions to protect the participation of small construction companies, including a value threshold and an exemption for sole proprietors and small firms;

5. not applicable to modular and prefabricated construction at any stage, including off-site fabrication, on-site assembly, and supplier sourcing; the scope of Voluntary Recognition Agreements with respect to modular and prefabricated construction may be reviewed in future as the industry and applicable labour relations frameworks develop;

6. negotiate a dispute resolution process that resolves Labour Board disputes with no delays to construction, no costs or damages to the City, contractors, or bidders, no cost recovery against the City or its contractors, and focuses on go-forward outcomes;

7. protection of TCEU Local 416, with language tailored to the sector of each agreement; and

8. carve-outs for work placed through the City's Social Procurement Program and Community Benefits Framework for workforce development purposes.

2. City Council request the City Manager report to the Executive Committee in the first quarter of 2027 with an update on the status of negotiations of the Voluntary Recognition Agreements in Recommendation 1 above and an anticipated timeline to their conclusion.