NOTICE
OF PASSING OF ZONING BY-LAW 647-2025
(Under the Planning Act)
TAKE NOTICE that the City of Toronto passed Zoning By-law 647-2025 on June
26, 2025, with respect to the lands in the Residential Zone and Residential
Apartment Zone Category for the following Permissions: Townhouses and
Associated Performance Standards; Conversion of Internal Common Areas to
Dwelling Units; and Overcladding Encroachments.
An
explanation of the purpose and effect of the Zoning By-law, which apply to
lands within the City of Toronto as described above, is attached to this
Notice. Given that the amendments listed in this Notice apply to all of the lands meeting the description above, within the
geographic boundaries of the City of Toronto, a key map has not been provided
with this Notice. The amendment was processed under file number: 25 154788 CPS 00 OZ.
A statutory
public meeting was held on June 12, 2025, and the Planning and Housing
Committee and Toronto City Council considered three oral and eight written
submissions in making the decision. Please see item 2025.PH22.5 at https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.PH22.5.
IF YOU WISH TO APPEAL TO THE ONTARIO LAND
TRIBUNAL:
Take notice
that an appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal in respect to all or part of this
Zoning By-law may be made by filing a notice of appeal with the City Clerk, Attention: Raneisha Hemmings, Registrar
Secretariat, 100 Queen Street West, 2nd Floor West, Toronto, ON, M5H
2N2, no later than 4:30 p.m. on July 28, 2025. If delivering in-person,
drop off at the Registry Services Counter, Toronto City Hall. The filing of a
notice of appeal after 4:30 p.m., in person or electronically, will be deemed
to have been received the next business day.
A Notice of Appeal must:
(1) set out the specific part of the
proposed Zoning By-law to which the appeal applies;
(2) set out the reasons for the appeal of
the proposed Zoning By-law; and
(3) be accompanied by the fee prescribed
under the Ontario Land Tribunal in the amount of $1,100.00 for each application
appealed payable by certified cheque or money order to the Minister of Finance,
Province of Ontario.
If you wish
to appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) or request a fee reduction for an
appeal, forms are available from the OLT website at www.olt.gov.on.ca.
Who Can File An Appeal:
Only an
applicant, a specified person or public body as defined in the Planning Act
that made oral submissions at a public meeting or written submissions to the Council
before the by-law was passed, the registered owner of any land to which the
by-law would apply that made oral submissions at a public meeting or written
submissions to the Council before the by-law was passed, and the Minister of
Municipal Affairs and Housing may appeal the by-law to the Ontario Land Tribunal.
No person
or public body shall be added as a party to the hearing of the appeal unless,
before the Zoning By-law was passed, the person or public body made oral
submissions at a public meeting or written submissions to the Council, or in
the opinion of the Ontario Land Tribunal, there are reasonable grounds to add
the person or public body as a party.
Getting Additional Information:
A copy of
the Zoning By-law and background information about the application may be
obtained by contacting Carla Tsang at Carla.Tsang@toronto.ca or 416-395-7137.
Compliance with Provincial laws respecting Notice may
result in you receiving duplicate notices.
Dated at
the City of Toronto on
July 8, 2025.
John D.
Elvidge
City Clerk
Owner: CITY OF TORONTO
The purpose and effect of Zoning By-law 647-2025
is to increase the supply of infill housing in the city’s apartment
neighbourhoods. The proposed zoning amendments would permit the development of
townhouses in the Residential Apartment Commercial (RAC) Zone, enable the conversion of
underutilized spaces within apartment buildings into new dwelling units, and
establish new permissions to enable overcladding and
architectural features associated with deep energy retrofits.
Zoning By-law 647-2025 makes amendments to
City-wide Zoning By-law 569-2013 to:
Further information may be obtained by contacting Carla Tsang
at Carla.Tsang@toronto.ca or 416-395-7137.