This report responds to direction from the July 19-20, 2023 City Council meeting on item PH5.3 Our Plan Toronto: Recommendations on Seventy Employment Area Conversion Requests and Chapter 7 Site and Area Specific Policy Review – Final Report. City Council directed the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to report to the October 11-13, 2023 meeting of City Council on the following conversion requests: Conversion Request 019 – 3710 Chesswood Drive — Conversion Request 049 – 330 Queens Plate Drive — Conversion Request 080 – 2200-2250 Islington Avenue — Conversion Request 103 – 340-364 Evans Avenue and 12-16 Arnold Street — and Conversion Request 104 – 2450 Finch Avenue West. Council authorized the commencement of the Municipal Comprehensive Review and Growth Plan Conformity Exercise known as “Our Plan Toronto”, on August 4, 2020. As part of the Municipal Comprehensive Review, the City Planning Division received approximately 150 requests to convert lands designated Core Employment Areas or General Employment Areas in the Official Plan for non-employment uses, including some of which were City-initiated. As part of the Municipal Comprehensive Review, City Council has considered over 145 conversion requests in three final reports, which resulted in staff recommending the conversion of over 60 conversion requests. The implementing Official Plan Amendments (OPA 591, OPA 644 and OPA 653) were considered under Section 26 of the Planning Act, where the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing is the approval authority. All three Council adopted Official Plan Amendments are with the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing for final decisions. Staff’s final recommendations on these five conversion requests were originally included in PH5.3 Our Plan Toronto: Recommendations on Seventy Employment Area Conversion Requests and Chapter 7 Site and Area Specific Policy Review - Final Report, which was the third in a series of Final Reports that provided staff recommendations on Employment Area conversion requests as part of the Municipal Comprehensive Review of the Official Plan. These five sites were considered at a Special Public Meeting under Section 26 of the Planning Act regarding the City's phased Official Plan and Municipal Comprehensive Reviews at the July 5, 2023 Planning and Housing Committee. This report reiterates the staff recommendations for four of the five deferred conversion requests and recommends that Council continue to defer consideration of the lands described as 2450 Finch Avenue West to enable staff to continue ongoing discussions and consideration of additional materials.
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