City Council · 2023-05-12 12:29 PM
Adopt Item as Amended
Majority required - TE4.37 - Adopt the item as amended
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This report provides an update on the Provincial Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) program. It also includes preliminary planning comments, outstanding issues, opportunities to secure City priorities, and a summary of feedback received by the City and Infrastructure Ontario (IO) through a public engagement process for the Gerrard Carlaw North TOC. IO has partnered with Choice REIT for the delivery of a TOC proposal on the northeast corner of Gerrard Avenue and Carlaw Avenue (herein referred to as 'Gerrard Carlaw North') related to the Ontario Line Gerrard-Carlaw Station. The proposal, at 425-471 Carlaw Avenue, includes a mixed-use podium building with three tower elements at 30, 35 and 40 storeys. The proposal would also provide a public park, a Privately-Owned Publicly Accessible Space (POPS), and a new public street. The TOC falls within the study area for the Council-directed Gerrard-Carlaw Planning Study. The study was initiated prior to the TOC being announced, but the study scope has been adjusted to allow for these two projects to proceed concurrently. Opportunities for shared consultation and consideration of this TOC are being explored, with a focus on its connection to…
City Council · 2023-05-12 12:29 PM
Majority required - TE4.37 - Adopt the item as amended
Couriers using motor-assisted micro-mobility vehicles, (including electric-assist bicycles, but not including motorized wheelchairs), provide valuable delivery services, without causing air pollution or congestion. Unfortunately, a minority of such couriers create safety hazards for pedestrians and other vulnerable road users by flagrantly ignoring traffic rules, travelling at high speeds and riding on sidewalks. Attempts to enforce traffic rules against such couriers has not been effective in discouraging this behaviour, partly because neither the couriers nor their vehicles bear clear identification. Accordingly, it is difficult to identify and locate offenders. This creates a culture of impunity, which further encourages illegal and hazardous behaviour. An essential step to overcoming this culture of impunity, and to facilitate enforcement, is to be able to reliably identify offending couriers. It is also the responsibility of the courier companies to better educate their couriers, and to set terms of employment that encourage legal compliance.
City Council · 2023-05-12 11:07 AM
Majority required - DM6.3 - Adopt the item as amended
City Council · 2023-05-12 11:06 AM
Majority required - DM6.3 - Saxe - motion 1 - Second REVOTE
City Council · 2023-05-12 11:03 AM
Majority required - DM6.3 - Saxe - motion 1 - REVOTE
City Council · 2023-05-12 11:01 AM
Majority required - DM6.3 - Saxe - motion 1
The Government of Ontario is moving forward with plans to increase electricity generation in our province by including in the mix additional natural gas-fired power production despite the increase in greenhouse gasses this will bring. The Electricity Distributors Association, of which Toronto Hydro is a member, has produced studies showing that investment in conservation and efficiency would meet the Province's energy goals at a much lower price than adding more natural gas-fired power generation. Locally the new provincial policy could mean burning more fossil fuels at the Portlands Energy Centre on our waterfront when the City of Toronto has repeatedly committed to combatting climate change through reduced emissions. Since electricity demand is expected to grow in Toronto and that demand must be met it is also necessary to indicate to the Independent Electricity System Operator what alternatives the Province must invest in.
City Council · 2023-05-12 10:39 AM
Majority required - MM6.13 - Adoption of the balance of the motion
City Council · 2023-05-12 10:38 AM
Majority required - MM6.13 - Adoption of Part 1 of the motion only
City Council · 2023-05-11 14:43 PM
Two-Thirds required - MM6.13 - Waive referral
The Canada Emergency Business Account was an important lifeline to many businesses who found themselves suddenly unable to be open or provide services as normal. The Federal Government has announced that businesses are required to pay back the full amount of their loans by December 2023 in order to receive $20,000 of forgiveness. The Broadview Danforth Business Improvement Area recently conducted a survey of nearly 500 businesses regarding the Canada Emergency Business Account repayments which found that 97 percent of respondents indicated that repayment deadline will adversely affect their business. Over 74 percent of businesses stated that they will be forced further into debt under the current repayment plan, 41.4 percent fear that it will force them to close the business and 3 out of 4 businesses who were in operation before COVID declared that they are below 75 percent of pre-pandemic sales. City Council has made a number of changes to how the City operates in recognition of the need to support post-pandemic recovery for local businesses. Offering small businesses a multi-year repayment plan would alleviate the pressure that many of them are feeling due to the looming repayme…
City Council · 2023-05-12 10:27 AM
Majority required - MM6.1 - Adopt the item
In May 2021, Toronto Employment and Social Services reported to Council with details of Ontario's plan for Social Assistance Renewal which will impact recipients of the Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program and the municipal entities, including Toronto, that deliver Ontario Works. (May 6, 2021 Report to Council) This report focuses on a key area of change, Employment Services Transformation, and provides recommendations on what role the City should play in the transformed Employment Service System. Being implemented by the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development, Employment Services Transformation is intended to integrate social assistance employment programs with Provincial employment programs, led by the introduction of new Employment Service System Managers in local labour market areas, with a goal of reducing duplication across systems, promoting greater integration between Employment Ontario and Ontario Works providers and improving employment outcomes for recipients of Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program. In developing recommendations on what role the City should play in the transformed employment service syste…
City Council · 2023-05-12 10:08 AM
Majority required - EC3.5 - Perks - motion 1
The Housing Now Initiative is a signature affordable housing program in Toronto and across Canada. It is also a key housing supply program to support the City's HousingTO 2020-2030 Action Plan and Housing Action Plan 2022-2026. Through the Housing Now Initiative, the City of Toronto has dedicated 21 of its prime transit-oriented sites, and earmarked another five pipeline sites, for the delivery of purpose-built affordable and market rental housing within mixed-income, mixed-use and complete communities. To-date, the City has committed over $1.3 billion in land value, capital funding and financial incentives to the program, making it one of the most significant municipal financial investments in housing underway today. Although the Housing Now Initiative was first approved by Council at its meeting on January 30 and 31, 2019, (Item EX 1.1), and ten sites have been re-zoned to-date, with six market offerings completed, construction has not yet started on any site. This is primarily due to slow downs resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, current macroeconomic factors impacting the delivery of construction projects, and recent federal and provincial actions impacting Toronto. Specific…
City Council · 2023-05-12 09:57 AM
Majority required - PH3.6 - Perruzza - motion 1 - REVOTE
City Council · 2023-05-11 19:04 PM
Majority required - PH3.6 - McKelvie - motion 2
City Council · 2023-05-11 19:04 PM
Majority required - PH3.6 - Perruzza - motion 1