Public Notice

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF OFFICIAL PLAN AMENDMENT 824 AND NOTICE OF PASSING OF ZONING BY-LAWS 847-2025, 848-2025 AND 849-2025

(Under the Planning Act)

TAKE NOTICE that the City of Toronto adopted Official Plan Amendment 824 (by By-Law 846-2025) on July 24, 2025. Zoning By-laws 847-2025, 848-2025, and 849-2025 were also passed on this date, with respect to improving the implementation of garden suites and aligning zoning permissions for garden suites, laneway suites and multiplexes with Ontario Regulation 462/24 (O. Reg. 462/24).

An explanation of the purpose and effect of the Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendments, 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 amendments were processed under file number: 25 148292 STE 10 TM.

A statutory public meeting was held on July 15, 2025. The Planning and Housing Committee and Toronto City Council considered eight oral and 24 written submissions in making the decision. Please see Item 2025.PH23.1 at https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.PH23.1.    

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 Official Plan Amendment and/or Zoning By-laws 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 August 20, 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 Official Plan Amendment to which the appeal applies;

(2)        set out the reasons for the appeal of the proposed Official Plan Amendment and/or Zoning By-laws; and

(3)        be accompanied by the fee charged by the Ontario Land Tribunal, currently 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. 

The proposed Official Plan Amendment is exempt from approval by the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. The decision of Toronto City Council to adopt the proposed Official Plan Amendment is final if a notice of appeal is not received before or on the last day for filing a notice of appeal.

Who Can File An Appeal:

Official Plan Amendment: Only 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 plan was adopted, the registered owner of any land to which the plan would apply that made oral submissions at a public meeting or written submissions to the Council before the plan was adopted, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing may appeal the decision of Council to the Ontario Land Tribunal.

Zoning By-law Amendments: Only 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 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 Official Plan Amendment was adopted and the Zoning By-law Amendments were 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 Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendments and background information about the amendments may be obtained by contacting Kara Naklicki at 416-392-7357, or by e-mail at Kara.Naklicki@toronto.ca, or Asif Patel at 416-392-7572, or by email at Asif.Patel@toronto.ca. 

Compliance with Provincial laws respecting Notice may result in you receiving duplicate notices.

PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF
OFFICIAL PLAN AMENDMENT 824

AND ZONING BY-LAWS 847-2025, 848-2025 AND 849-2025

The purpose and effect of Official Plan Amendment 824 and Zoning By-laws 847-2025, 848-2025, and 849-2025 is to amend the Official Plan and Zoning By-law 569-2013 to improve the implementation of garden suites and to align zoning permissions for garden suites, laneway suites and multiplexes with recent provincial regulatory changes (O. Reg. 462/24). The amendments would apply City-wide to properties in the Residential Zone Category in Zoning By-law 569-2013 and designated Neighbourhoods in the Official Plan.

Official Plan Amendment 824 amends the Official Plan to:

• Update policies for floor area to align with the proposed amendments to the Zoning By-law.
• Amend Chapter 7, Site and Area Specific Policies, 670, for Garden Suites by deleting Policy vii, which results in the renumbering of Policies viii and ix. as vii and viii.
   

Zoning By-laws 847-2025, 848-2025, and 849-2025 amend Zoning By-law 569-2013 to:

• Make changes to minimum separation distance, height, setbacks, floor area, lot coverage, minor technical amendment to clarify regulations for structures with openings, removal of angular planes, and to add transition provisions;
• Amend the minimum separation distance for garden suites in the area bounded by Coxwell Avenue, Coxwell Boulevard and Massey Creek to the west, the Don River and Sunrise Avenue to the north, Victoria Park Avenue and Nursewood Park to the east, and Lake Ontario to the south;
• Align garden suites permissions in the By-law with O. Reg. 462/24 with respect to minimum separation distance, lot coverage, angular planes, and applicability to more than three units in Toronto;
• Align regulations for laneway suites, multiplexes and secondary suites with O. Reg. 462/24, including regulations for angular planes, minimum separation distance, lot coverage, floor space index, and applicability to more than three units; and
   

Further information may be obtained by contacting Kara Naklicki at 416-392-7357, or by e-mail at Kara.Naklicki@toronto.ca or Asif Patel at 416-392-7572, or by email at Asif.Patel@toronto.ca