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City-Initiated St. Clair Avenue Study – Between Old Weston Road and Blackthorn Avenue/Spring Grove Avenue – OMB Official Plan Amendment Appeal and Potential Zoning By-law Amendment

– Supplementary Report #4
Community Council Decision
Etobicoke York Community Council referred this Item back to the Director, Community Planning, Etobicoke York District, and further:

1. Requested City Planning staff to obtain a further report from the independent Environmental Consulting firm retained by the City; with conclusions and recommendations, and to comment and advise on any further revisions to the proposed policy framework and regulatory approvals as set out in the proposed Draft Modifications to the Official Plan Amendment No. 84, as it relates to other residential sites, for example:

a. Odour and Air Quality Assessment for the recently built “Options For Homes” three apartment towers, off Keele Street, and adjacent to the NRT site immediately to the north, where all the apartment buildings are higher than 16 m.

b. Odour and Air Quality Assessment for the existing TCHC buildings at 61 Pelham Park Gardens and Symington Place at 1884 Davenport Road, immediately to the east of the NRT site, where both apartment buildings are higher than 16 m.

c. Any assessment, comments, or recommendations should include and not be limited to: nuisance odours measured in odour units (“OU”) that can be detected and show where it originates; and any receptor (on-site) mitigation measures.

d. Any other examples in other parts of the City, like the Long Branch Area, where “H” provisions have not been implemented, and how it relates to the St. Clair Avenue Study.

e. Proposed “at-receptor mitigation” alternatives that can be included in any “H” provisions or Official Plan Amendment, that better share the burden of mitigation fairly between any potential applicants for new development and the existing polluter, including alternatives that place the onus entirely on the polluter.

2. Requested City Planning staff to ensure that the Environmental Consultant report also includes:

a. Any existing “regulatory standard” for odour levels or guidelines and how odour levels are identified or where it originates.

b. The regulatory standards or guidelines that are in place, where an average person would be able to perceive a difference between odour levels of building heights between 16 m. and 39 m. or how significantly different any “OU” are at higher heights compared to 16 m. height.

c. The reasonableness and practicability of the proposed Draft Modifications and “H” provisions from the community’s perspective in terms of economic revitalization of the commercial strip that is in dire need.

3. Directed City Planning staff to consult with businesses and residents on any further reports.

4. Requested City Planning staff to give full consideration to the removal of the “H” provision as part of the report back to Etobicoke York Community Council.
Origin
(February 6, 2014) Report from the Director, Community Planning, Etobicoke York District
Summary
At its meeting of September 10, 2013, Etobicoke York Community Council deferred consideration of a Planning report (Item EY26.6) on the St. Clair Avenue Study between Old Weston Road and Blackthorn Avenue/Spring Grove Avenue and requested staff to hold a public consultation meeting on the proposed policy framework and regulatory approach set out in the Draft Modification to Official Plan Amendment No. 84 and report back no later than January 2014 with a revised Draft Modification that reflected comments gathered at the public consultation meeting.

A report on the findings and outcome of the community consultation meeting was considered by the Etobicoke York Community Council at its meeting of January 15, 2014. The report also advised that Planning staff had retained the services of an environmental consulting firm to peer review the Draft Modification but had to yet assess the report findings and potential impacts to the proposed policy framework. At this meeting, Etobicoke York Community Council directed Planning staff to report to the February 25, 2014 meeting of Community Council on the outcome of the peer review process.

This report provides a summary of the findings from the peer review process and recommends approval of a revised Draft Modification to Official Plan Amendment No. 84.
Financial Impact
There are no financial implications resulting from the adoption of this report.
Background Information
(February 6, 2014) Report from the Director, Community Planning, Etobicoke York District regarding an OMB Official Plan Amendment Appeal and Potential Zoning By-law Amendment – City-Initiated St. Clair Avenue Study – Between Old Weston Road and Blackthorn Avenue/Spring Grove Avenue
(http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2014/ey/bgrd/backgroundfile-66753.pdf)