Doug Philpott Inner City Children’s Tennis (DPICCT) is a charitable organization that operates tennis programs to children in priority neighbourhoods across the City at no cost. DPICCT currently operates a tennis program on courts located at 15 San Romanoway, located in the Jane and Finch neighbourhood. The courts are located on the same property as and are immediately adjacent to and are complementary to a facility used for other local community activities located at 15 San Romanoway including the Palisades Centre for Early Learning, and the San Romanoway Revitalization Association (SRRW). While the tennis courts do not connect to the adjacent community facility, DPICCT has arranged for use of the washrooms within the facility. DPICCT has also partnered with the SRRA to provide Breakfast and Afterschool assistance for the children in the San Romanoway neighbourhood and wider Jane-Finch Community. All of the facilities are located on lands owned by Greenwin Corp. Greenwin Corp. provides affordable housing opportunities as well as other initiatives to break the cycle of poverty through mental health support, physical fitness and sports programming, food and nutrition education and other organized activities, with community stakeholders such as DPICCT. Greenwin Corp. offers the land at no cost and financially assists with the maintenance of the facility and is contributing to the cost of resurfacing the courts. DPICCT wishes to erect a bubble over the existing tennis courts so that its youth programming can continue to be offered throughout the year. The costs of delivering the programming and construction of the bubble are from funds raised by donors and through grants. DPICCT has filed a building permit application to construct the bubble however, given the funding constraints, cannot pay the fees for development charges or parkland levies to the City of the education development charges owing to the TCDSB. DPICCT has requested that the TCDSB waive the education development charges for the project. In effort to continue with the construction of the bubble to offer the tennis programming, DPICCT has asked the City, though Councillor Perruzza’s office, to assist. Pursuant to the development charges and the parkland dedication by-laws, contained in Chapter 415 of the Municipal Code, fees in the amount of $ 759,818.82 and $ 11,067.59 are required to be paid respectively, on building permit issuance for the tennis bubble. Section 252 of the City of Toronto Act allows municipalities to enter into agreements to provide financial assistance and development charges exemptions for municipal capital facilities.
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