City Council on May 25, 26 and 27, 2009, adopted the following:

 

1.         City Council request GO Transit to accelerate its plans for electrification of its rail network, particularly the Georgetown line.

City Council on May 25, 26 and 27, 2009, adopted the following:

 

1.         Council amend the Official Plan substantially in accordance with the draft official plan amendment attached as Attachment 1 to the report (April 24, 2009) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning.

 

2.         Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the draft official plan amendment as may be required.

 

3.         City Council refer the communication (May 11, 2009) from Kim M. Kovar, Aird and Berlis LLP [PG25.2.3] and the responses filed by Councillor Moscoe [PG25.2.9] to the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, with a request that he report in consultation with the General Manager, Economic Development, and the City Solicitor,  to the North York Community Council and the Planning and Growth Management Committee on the interpretation of the Official Plan for employment districts as it applies to 1100-1150 Caledonia Road.

City Council on May 25, 26 and 27, 2009, adopted the following:

 

1.         City Council enact the draft Green Roof By-law attached as Attachment A to the report (May 22, 2009) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning and the Chief Building Official and Executive Director, Toronto Building, such draft by-law being in accordance with the following recommendations of the Planning and Growth Management Committee and in accordance with the recommended actions of the aforementioned May 22, 2009 report with respect to outdoor amenity space and exemptions for complete site plan applications:

 

            The Planning and Growth Management Committee recommended that:

 

1.         The Draft By-law attached as Attachment 1 to the report from the Chief Building Official and Executive Director, Toronto Building and Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning dated March 27, 2009 be amended to provide that:

 

a.         industrial buildings are required to include a green roof equal to 10% of the available roof space to a maximum of 2,000m2 to become effective as of January 31, 2011;

 

b.         non-profit housing is subject to the same requirements as other residential buildings governed by the proposed by-law;

 

c.         separate and public schools are subject to the same requirements as non-residential buildings;

 

d.         coverage and threshold requirements include new developments with a gross floor area between 2,000m2 and 4,999m2 which would be required to provide a minimum coverage of 20% of the available roof space;

 

e.         minimum height requirements for residential buildings include new developments with a height greater than 6 storeys or 20 metres; and

 

f.          the exemption for non-vegetative border from the calculation of available roof space is removed.

 

2.         City Council amend the City of Toronto Municipal Code substantially in accordance with the draft by-law attached as Attachment 1 to the report from the Chief Building Official and Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning dated March 27, 2009, as amended by Part 1 above, to require the construction of green roofs, such amendment to come into effect on January 31, 2010;

 

3.         City Council amend the City of Toronto Municipal Code substantially in accordance with the draft by‑law attached as Attachment 1 to the report from the Chief Building Official and Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning dated March 27, 2009, as amended by Part 1 above, to govern the construction of green roofs, such amendment to come into effect on January 31, 2010.

 

4.         City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the draft by‑law as may be required, in consultation with the Chief Planner and the Chief Building Official.

 

2.         City Council amend the draft Green Roof By-law to exempt all complete site plan applications received prior to January 31, 2010 from the green roof requirement of the By-law.

 

3.         City Council direct the Chief Planner Executive Director of the City Planning Division to include a provision in the proposed harmonized Zoning By-law for the City of Toronto to allow 25 percent of any amenity space located on the roof of a building to be utilized as a green roof.

 

4.         City Council amend the draft Green Roof By-law to exclude outdoor amenity space provided on the roof of a residential building from the calculation of available roof space to a maximum of 2m2 per residential unit.

 

5.         City Council request that the Province amend Section 108 of the City of Toronto Act, 2006 ("COTA"), to provide additional authority for the City to require alternatives to green roofs that meet or exceed the objectives of a green roof.

 

6.         City Council delegate authority to the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to approve variances to the Green Roof By-law subject to notification of the local Councillor(s).

 

7.         City Council authorize that cash in-lieu of a green roof required under the Green Roof By‑law be directed to the Eco‑Roof Incentive Program to be used to green roofs on existing buildings.

 

8.         City Council request the Province to amend the regulation under the Building Code Act, 1992 to include as applicable law a by-law made under section 108 of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, and that the Province make such amendment prior to January 31, 2010 when the by-law contemplated in the report from the Chief Building Official and Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning dated March 27, 2009, as amended by Part 1 above, will come into effect.

 

9.         City Council request that the Province provide additional money under the funding formula for the construction of new schools in Toronto.

 

10.       City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director of City Planning and the Chief Building Official and Executive Director, Toronto Building to undertake a review of the Toronto Green Roof By-law by January 31, 2012.

 

11.       City Council direct the Chief Building Official and Executive Director, Toronto Building to bring forward any proposed technical updates to the Toronto Green Roof Construction Standard following the American National Standards Institute adoption of fire and wind uplift standards and after consultation with the Technical Advisory Group.

 

12.       City Council adopt amendments to Chapter 363 of the Municipal Code to clarify that the building permit classification “Re‑Roofing with structural work, raise roof structure” would also apply to stand alone modifications to create a green roof, such amendment to come into effect upon adoption of the Toronto Green Roof By-law.

 

13.       City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning and the General Manager, Economic Development, Culture and Tourism, to report solely and before the effective date of the industrial building requirement on an alternate option that would fulfill:

 

a.         the reduction of the urban heat island effect;

b.         the reduction of Green House Gas emissions; and

c.         help with bio-diversity functions/corridors

 

14.       City Council authorize the City Solicitor be authorized to introduce the necessary Bill in Council to give effect thereto.

 

 The Planning and Growth Management Committee recommends that:

 

1.         the Draft By-law attached as Attachment 1 to the report from the Chief Building Official and Executive Director, Toronto Building and Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning dated March 27, 2009 be amended to provide that:

 

a.         industrial buildings are required to include a green roof equal to 10% of the available roof space to a maximum of 2,000m2 to become effective as ofJanuary 31, 2011;

 

b.         non-profit housing is subject to the same requirements as other residential buildings governed by the proposed by-law;

 

c.         separate and public schools are subject to the same requirements as non-residential buildings;

 

d.         coverage and threshold requirements include new developments with a gross floor area between 2,000m2 and 4,999m2 which would be required to provide a minimum coverage of 20% of the available roof space;

 

e.         minimum height requirements for residential buildings include new developments with a height greater than 6 storeys or 20 metres;

 

f.          the exemption for non-vegetative border from the calculation of available roof space is removed.

 

2.         City Council amend the City of Toronto Municipal Code substantially in accordance with the draft by-law attached as Attachment 1 to the report from the Chief Building Official and Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning dated March 27, 2009, as amended by Recommendation 1 above, to require the construction of green roofs, such amendment to come into effect on January 31, 2010;

 

3.         City Council amend the City of Toronto Municipal Code substantially in accordance with the draft by-law attached as Attachment 1 to the report from the Chief Building Official and Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning dated March 27, 2009, as amended by Recommendation 1 above, to govern the construction of green roofs, such amendment to come into effect on January 31, 2010.

 

4.         City Council authorize the City Solicitor to make such stylistic and technical changes to the draft by-law as may be required, in consultation with the Chief Planner and the Chief Building Official.

 

5.         City Council delegate authority to the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to approve variances to the Green Roof By-law.

 

6.         City Council authorize that cash in-lieu of a green roof required under the Green Roof By-law be directed to the Eco-Roof Incentive Program to be used to green roofs on existing buildings.

 

7.         City Council request the Province to amend the regulation under the Building Code Act, 1992 to include as applicable law a by-law made under section 108 of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, and that the Province make such amendment prior to January 31, 2010 when the by-law contemplated in the report from the Chief Building Official and Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning dated March 27, 2009, as amended by Recommendation 1 above, will come into effect.

 

8.         City Council request that the Province provide additional money under the funding formula for the construction of new schools in Toronto.

 

9.         City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director of City Planning and the Chief Building Official and Executive Director, Toronto Building to undertake a review of the Toronto Green Roof By-law by January 31, 2012.

 

10.       City Council direct the Chief Building Official and Executive Director, Toronto Building to bring forward any proposed technical updates to the Toronto Green Roof Construction Standard following the American National Standards Institute adoption of fire and wind uplift standards and after consultation with the Technical Advisory Group.

 

11.       City Council adopt amendments to Chapter 363 of the Municipal Code to clarify that the building permit classification “Re-Roofing with structural work, raise roof structure” would also apply to stand alone modifications to create a green roof, such amendment to come into effect upon adoption of the Toronto Green Roof By-law.

 

12.       City Council direct the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning and the General Manager, Economic Development, Culture and Tourism, to report solely and before the effective date of the industrial building requirement on an alternate option that would fulfil:

 

a.         the reduction of the urban heat island effect;

b.         the reduction of Green House Gas emissions; and

c.         help with bio-diversity functions/corridors

 

 

13.       City Council authorize the City Solicitor be authorized to introduce the necessary Bill in Council to give effect thereto.

 

City Council on May 25, 26 and 27, 2009, adopted the following:

 

1.         City Council adopt the recommendations in Confidential Attachment 1 of the report (April 17, 2009) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning and the City Solicitor.

 

2.         City Council authorize the public release of the confidential instructions in Attachment 1, at the end of the Council meeting.

 

The following instructions are now public:

 

1.         City Council authorize the City Solicitor to present the following modifications to Official Plan Amendment No. 38 to the Ontario Municipal Board as a settlement of the appeal by the Building Industry and Land Development Association:

 

             a.        The words in the text of the OPA and identified below in bold italics be deleted:

 

“305.    Areas where Funding of Heritage Conservation District Studies is an Eligible Section 37 Community Benefit.

 

Where Section 37 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.P. 13, as amended, is used in developments within or in close proximity to those specific areas identified on the accompanying maps as Potential Heritage Conservation Districts, cash contributions to fund Heritage Conservation District studies will be eligible as community benefits.  Such contributions will be:

 

a.         subject to all provisions of Section 5.1.1 of this Plan except the requirement that community benefits be capital facilities and/or cash contributions toward specific capital facilities; and

 

b.         used for no purpose other than the Heritage Conservation District studies specified in the relevant Section 37 agreements or such capital facilities as are specified in the relevant Section 37 agreements.

 

One or both of the following criteria must be satisfied in order that a proposed development be considered to be within or in close proximity to a Potential Heritage Conservation District:

 

a.         the proposed development would likely have an impact on the heritage character of the Potential Heritage Conservation District; or

 

b.         the proposed development would benefit from the preservation of the heritage character of the Potential Heritage Conservation District.

 

The accompanying maps show two types of Potential Heritage Conservation Districts: those where studies and study area boundaries have not been authorized by City Council, identified on the accompanying maps by numbers; and those where Council has authorized Heritage Conservation District studies and has approved specific study area boundaries, identified on the accompanying maps by letters.  The boundaries shown for the former type are symbolic and general in nature, and to the extent that the respective text description for a particular District in accompanying Schedule B provides greater specificity regarding the boundaries, the text description will take precedence over the symbolic boundaries.  For the latter type, the specific study area boundaries authorized by Council are shown on the accompanying maps, and no text descriptions are provided.

 

For clarity, funding of Heritage Conservation District studies is not an eligible Section 37 community benefit with respect to developments proposed within the North York Centre, Sheppard East Subway Corridor or Central Finch Area Secondary Plans.

 

Schedules A and B below, and the attached maps, also form part of this policy.”

 

            b.         The text deleted above in Part 1a be replaced by the following:

 

“The former type is symbolic and general in nature and the existence and precise boundaries of a Heritage Conservation District will be determined after completion of a formal Heritage Conservation District study.  Schedule A: List of Potential Heritage Conservation Districts and Schedule B: Descriptions of Potential Heritage Conservation Districts are also general in nature.  For the latter type, the specific study area boundaries authorized by Council are shown on the accompanying maps and no text descriptions are provided.

 

Read together, the maps, the list and the written descriptions serve to help determine whether a proposed development is within or in close proximity to a Potential Heritage Conservation District through the application of the criteria set out above, and thus whether a cash contribution toward a Heritage Conservation District study is an eligible Section 37 community benefit.  They do not serve to determine the outcome of any Heritage Conservation District study or define the precise boundaries of any future Heritage Conservation District.”

 

       c.        In the section of Official Plan Amendment No. 38, entitled “Schedule B: Descriptions of Potential Heritage Conservation Districts”, the wording of each description be modified by inserting the word “Generally” or “generally” in the appropriate location in the last sentence of each description, so as to qualify the description of the boundaries of each Potential Heritage Conservation District.

 

The balance of Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (April 17, 2009) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, and the City Solicitor remains confidential, in accordance with the provisions of the City of Toronto Act, 2006, as it contains information that is subject to litigation or potential litigation, including matters before administrative tribunals, affecting the municipality or local board.

City Council on May 25, 26 and 27, 2009, adopted the following:

 

1.         City Council enact the By‑law at Attachment 1 of the report (April 20, 2009) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, and the City Solicitor to amend the Municipal Code Chapter 415, Development of Land, to delegate certain powers and authority to the Chief Planner.

 

2.         Prior to the execution of delegated authority under additionally delegated powers granted through this by-law, City Council request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to discuss with the respective Councillor the specifics of the matter.

City Council on May 25, 26 and 27, 2009, adopted the following:

 

1.         When Municipal Licensing and Standards has an open file on a suspected rooming house, the address of the property be forwarded to Fire Services for its consideration.

The Planning and Growth Mangement Committee forwarded  to the Executive Committee, the request from Scarborough Community Council that City Council consider a special levy for second suites, as this issue is in the Executive Committee's jurisdiction.