City Council on February 23, 24 and 25, 2009, adopted the following:

 

1.         City Council amend the Official Plan and the Yonge-Eglinton Secondary Plan substantially in accordance with the draft official plan amendment submitted with this report as Attachment 1.

 

2.         City Council amend By‑law 438-86 for the southwest quadrant of the Yonge and Eglinton intersection substantially in accordance with the draft zoning by-law amendment submitted with this report as Attachment 2.

 

3.         City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the draft zoning by‑law amendments as may be required.

 

4.         City Council adopt the Yonge-Eglinton Centre Urban Design Guidelines shown in Attachment 3.

 

5.         City Council adopt a By-law to amend Schedule 1 of the City‑wide Community Improvement Plan for Brownfield Remediation and Development of Prescribed Employment Uses (By‑law 516-2008) by including the Yonge-Eglinton Centre as an area eligible for financial incentives for major office buildings, as shown in Attachment 4.

 

6.         City Council direct the General Manager of Parks, Forestry and Recreation, in consultation with TTC, Facilities and Real Estate, City Planning staff and the local Councillors for Wards 22, 16 and 25, to report back to City Council in the third quarter of 2009 with an implementation strategy and possible funding sources for the proposed public park within the southwest quadrant of the Yonge-Eglinton intersection.

 

7.         City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, in consultation with the General Managers of Transportation Services and Economic Development, Culture and Tourism, Urban Forestry and TTC staff to prepare a Streetscape Plan focused on the Yonge-Eglinton intersection, in consultation with the local Councillors for Wards 22, 16 and 25, and report back to City Council with a strategy to implement the Streetscape Plan together with estimated costs and possible funding sources, including partnerships with the private sector.

 

8.         City Council direct Transportation Services, the Co-ordinated Street Furniture Program to consider Yonge-Eglinton as a priority area for the placement of street furniture in Wards 22, 16, and 25, in co‑ordination with Part 7.

 

9.         City Council direct Planning staff to undertake consultations with the local community, in consultation with Councillors for Wards 22, 16, and 25, with regard to the Yonge-Eglinton Urban Growth Centre (UGC) in the Provincial Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, 2006, and report back on the results of the consultations and any amendments necessary to bring the Official Plan in conformity to the provincial Growth Plan.

 

10.       City Council approve that the City-owned land in this proposed rezoning shall include the construction of affordable housing on site consistent with the target set out in the Official Plan as part of any redevelopment, and that if the land were sold to a third party, this obligation be registered on title.

 

11.       The Toronto Transit Commission be requested to consider establishing a Yonge/Eglinton Station Working Group including local residents, area employees, and transit riders to participate from the early stages in the design of the Eglinton Station, bus terminal and other transit public spaces, with a view to making them user friendly.

The Planning and Growth Management Committee recommends that:

 

1.         City Council amend the Official Plan and the Yonge-Eglinton Secondary Plan substantially in accordance with the draft official plan amendment submitted with this report as Attachment 1.

 

2.         City Council amend By-law 438-86 for the southwest quadrant of the Yonge and Eglinton intersection substantially in accordance with the draft zoning by-law amendment submitted with this report as Attachment 2.

 

3.         City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the draft zoning by-law amendments as may be required.

 

4.         City Council adopt the Yonge-Eglinton Centre Urban Design Guidelines shown in Attachment 3.

 

5.         City Council adopt a By-law to amend Schedule 1 of the City-wide Community Improvement Plan for Brownfield Remediation and Development of Prescribed Employment Uses (By-law 516-2008) by including the Yonge-Eglinton Centre as an area eligible for financial incentives for major office buildings, as shown in Attachment 4.

 

6.         City Council direct the General Manager of Parks, Forestry and Recreation, in consultation with TTC, Facilities and Real Estate, City Planning staff, and the local councillors for Wards 22, 16 and 25, to report back to City Council in the third quarter of 2009 with an implementation strategy and possible funding sources for the proposed public park within the southwest quadrant of the Yonge-Eglinton intersection.

 

7.         City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director in consultation with the General Managers of Transportation Services and Economic Development, Culture and Tourism, Urban Forestry and TTC staff to prepare a Streetscape Plan focused on the Yonge-Eglinton intersection, in consultation with the local councillors for Wards 22, 16 and 25, and report back to City Council with a strategy to implement the Streetscape Plan together with estimated costs and possible funding sources, including partnerships with the private sector.

 

8.         City Council direct Transportation Services, the Co-ordinated Street Furniture Program to consider Yonge-Eglinton as a priority area for the placement of street furniture in Wards 22, 16, and 25, in coordination with Recommendation 7.

 

9.         City Council direct planning staff to undertake consultations with the local community, in consultation with Councillors for Wards 22, 16, and 25, with regards to the Yonge-Eglinton Urban Growth Centre (UGC) in the Provincial Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, 2006, and report back on the results of the consultations and any amendments necessary to bring the Official Plan in conformity to the provincial Growth Plan.

 

10.       City Council approve that the City-owned land in this proposed rezoning shall include the construction of affordable housing on site consistent with the target set out in the Official Plan as part of any redevelopment, and that if the land were sold to a third party, this obligation be registered on title.

Joe Nanos, Manager, Community Planning and James Parakh, Senior Planner Urban Design, gave a presentation to the Planning and Growth Management Committee on the City-Initiated Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments, Yonge-Eglinton Centre Focused Review - Final Report.

 

The Planning and Growth Management Committee:

 

1.         held a public meeting on February 4, 2009, and notice was given in accordance with the Planning Act;

 

2.         referred the following motion by Councillor Thompson to the Chief Planner and Executive Director of City Planning and the City Solicitor,  for consideration and report to City Council on February 23, 2009.       

 

1.         That Section 1.4 Item 6 (a) and (b) of the draft Official Plan Amendment contained in the report (January 5, 2009) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, be amended to read as follows:

 

“6.        Southwest quadrant of Yonge and Eglinton

 

On the lands shown as 6 on Map 21-1 the following additional policies shall apply:

 

a.         new development shall include the implementation of a new public road extending east and south from Duplex Avenue to Berwick Avenue.  Land dedications will be required where necessary to implement the new public road.

 

b.         strata plans to limit height shall be utilized on city-owned lands to implement the objectives of this Plan.”

 

2.         That the report (January 5, 2009) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, be amended by adding the following new Recommendations 10 and 11:

 

“10.      City Council mandate that any Request for Proposals process for the redevelopment of the public lands in the southwest quadrant of Yonge-Eglinton Centre, to be undertaken by the City and/or Toronto Transit Commission, include as the principal development control mechanism in the Request for Proposals (apart from the Planning and Urban Design Guidelines for the quadrant) a stratified upper limit of the lands available for sale and/or lease and the Request for Proposals be consistent with the Official Plan, Yonge-Eglinton Secondary Plan; and

 

11.       Any Request for Proposals involving public lands in the southwest quadrant of the Yonge-Eglinton Centre provide for the appointment of a ‘Fairness Monitor’ acceptable to the City and Toronto Transit Commission.”

City Council on February 23, 24 and 25, 2009, adopted the following:

 

1.         City Council refuse the application in its current form as the proposal does not conform to the Official Plan, conflicts and does not conform with the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe and is inconsistent with the Provincial Policy Statement.

 

2.         Should the applicant wish to reconsider the retail and service use components of their proposal, City staff and the applicant work together on a rezoning proposal which would conform and be consistent with the Official Plan and the Growth Plan and be consistent with the Provincial Policy Statement.

The Planning and Growth Management Committee recommends that:

 

1.         City Council refuse the application in its current form as the proposal does not conform to the Official Plan, conflicts and does not conform with the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe and is inconsistent with the Provincial Policy Statement.

 

2.          Should the applicant wish to reconsider the retail and service use components of their proposal, City staff and the applicant work together on a rezoning proposal which would conform and be consistent with the Official Plan and the Growth Plan and be consistent with the Provincial Policy Statement.

City Council on February 23, 24 and 25, 2009, adopted the following:

 

1.         City Council approve the recommended new members for the Toronto Public Art Commission outlined in Attachment 1 of the report.

 

2.         City Council approve the public release of the confidential information in Attachment 1.

 

Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (January 9, 2009) from Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, is now public in its entirety and contains the names of the following citizens nominated for membership for the Toronto Public Art Commission:

 

The Toronto Public Art Commission – Recommended New Members

 

The following citizens are nominated for membership for the Toronto Public Art Commission

 

New Members

 

Ronni Rosenberg, Associate Dean, Sheridan College School of Animation, Arts and Design; Architect, Artist and Graphic Designer

 

Lorrie Ann Smith, Manager, Course Instructor, Planning Programs for Public Education at the University of Western Ontario; Manager, Education at Harbourfront Centre; Masters of Fine Art, Visual Arts at York University

 

Christopher Pommer, Partner, PLANT Architect Inc.; B.E.S., and B.Arch, University of Waterloo

 

Yvonne Yeung, Urban designer, Urban Strategies Inc., Bachelor of Landscape Architecture University of Toronto; Editor of Ground Magazine; member, Ontario Association of Landscape Architects and Canadian Association of Landscape Architects

 

Andrea Carsen, Artist, architecture and design writer and critic; part-time instructor visual studies and critical writing part time at Brock University; publisher, the View on Canadian Art

 

Reserve Members

 

Robert Vanderberg, Associate Producer, Visual Arts and Public Installations Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity; B.A. Calvin College; M.A. in Art History and Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies in Visual Culture, York University

 

Son Van Huynh, Intern Architect/Designer with ARK Inc.; Master of Architecture, University of Toronto, Hon. Bachelor of Science University of Toronto

 

Tracey Capes, Principal Tracey Fine Art; Executive Director of the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, 1990 to 1998; graduate Art and Art History Program of the University of Toronto

 

Peter Hamilton, Principal Peter Hamilton Architects; B.Arch. University of Toronto; M.Arch. Harvard University; Member of Ontario Association of Architects, Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

 

JoAnn Purcell, Academic faculty member, Seneca College; professional artist; previous member, Board of Directors, Scarborough Arts Council

 

Paul Aloisi, Artist, B.Des. Honours in Environmental Design; Academic faculty instructor in design/drawing, Ontario College of Art and Design; public art/inter disciplinary collaborations and community arts organizer