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Minutes Confirmed – September 16, 2009

 

The Planning and Growth Management Committee deferred consideration of the item to the November 4, 2009 meeting.

This application was made on or after January 1, 2007 and is subject to the new provisions of the Planning Act and the City of Toronto Act, 2006.

 

This application proposes to amend the existing zoning in order to allow for the redevelopment and expansion of the existing Chartwell Shopping Centre located at 2301 Brimley Road and 2329-2361 Brimley Road. This neighbourhood shopping centre has served the Agincourt and Agincourt North communities since the 1970s.  The proposed redevelopment includes the expansion of the centre onto lands located to the south at 175 Commander Boulevard by way of the conversion of an existing industrial building to a large scale, stand-alone retail use in the form of a supermarket, along with retail, service commercial and office uses.

 

The lands at 175 Commander Boulevard are 1.56 hectares in area and only have frontage on Commander Boulevard.  These lands have historically been used for industrial related uses, independent from the shopping centre lands to the north.  The proposed large scale, stand-alone retail use on this site does not conform to the policies of the Official Plan as Commander Boulevard is not a major street as shown on in the Plan. An official plan amendment is required in order to permit this part of the development proposal. Such an amendment, however, is not supportable given it does not conform and conflicts with the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe. The proposed use on these lands is considered to be a conversion of lands within an Employment Area to a non-employment (major retail) use.

 

Opportunities to redevelop and revitalize the existing shopping centre and to ensure its ongoing viability exist on the lands that have historically been used for retail commercial purposes.

 

This report seeks Council direction on the application. The report recommends refusal of the application in its current form and that City staff continue working with the applicants subject to the proposed large scale, stand-alone retail use on the 175 Commander Boulevard lands being excluded from the proposed redevelopment.

 

Presentation from John Campbell, President and Chief Executive Officer of Waterfront Toronto and Chris Glaisek, Vice President of Planning and Design, Waterfront Toronto, on the Lower Don Lands Project.

 

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The Planning and Growth Management Committee recommends that:

 

1.         City Council adopt the revised two-tiered set of performance measures associated with the Toronto Green Standard as presented in Appendix A of the report (September 22, 2009) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division, to be applied to all applications under the Planning Act.

 

The purpose of this report is to provide a review of proposed revisions to the Toronto Green Standard prior to its launch January 31, 2010. Revisions proposed in this report reflect additional feedback from the development industry; City By-laws adopted since the approval of the TGS in 2008 and further review and analysis undertaken during the development of the implementation protocol.

 

Planning and Growth Management Committee (P&GM) at its meeting on June 4, 2009 directed that the Chief Planner and Executive Director report to P&GM on a communication from Councillor Nunziata regarding the interpretation of ‘retail use’ on the lands known as 3500 Eglinton Avenue West (former Kodak lands).

 

This report outlines the existing planning policy context for retail permissions on the former Kodak Lands.

 

At its meeting on Wednesday August 26, 2009, the Commission considered the report, entitled “Russell Hill Subway Train Accident of August 11, 1995 Due Diligence Checklist Update.”