Meeting Agenda

Meeting Purpose: To introduce the Housing Now Initiative, present the site context for 1631 Queen Street East, introduce the concept of indigenous placekeeping on site and Kishigo lane, and present and seek feedback on early ideas for a preliminary development concept for the site. 6:30 Welcome, Introductions and Agenda Review 6:40 Presentation 7:15 Discussion Discussion Questions

1. What are some important features of the existing neighbourhood that should be considered when redeveloping the site?

2. Are there any opportunities to enhance the local neighbourhood that you would like to be considered? If so, what are they?

3. Do you have any concerns about the redevelopment of the site? What suggestions do you have, if any, on how these concerns could be best addressed?

4. Do you have any other comments or feedback for the Housing Now team? 8:25 Wrap-up and Next Steps 8:30 Adjourn

1 Housing Now 1631 Queen Street East – Community Consultation No. 1 December 7, 2020

2 Project Team

• Housing Secretariat: Corporate lead for • Partners with the City’s Housing Secretariat and the Housing Now Initiative. Approves City Planning Division in the management and targets for number and affordability of delivery of the Housing Now Initiative. new rental units. • Manages the City’s real estate portfolio and works • City Planning: Lead in updating planning with stakeholders, partners and community frameworks to support new investments members. in affordable housing and other community facilities in the context of a • Coordinates real estate and infrastructure needs high quality public realm. related to the Housing Now program and other initiatives. • Ensures the Council-directed city building objectives of the Housing Now • Manages design consultants to prepare

Initiative are met. development concepts. 3 Tonight’s Presentation

1. Introduction to Housing Now 2. 1631 Queen Street East 3. Ideas for the Future • Design Principles • Placekeeping 4. Discussion

4 INTRODUCING HOUSING NOW

5 Introducing Housing Now

• Launched by Mayor Tory and City Council in December 2018. • Accelerating the development of affordable housing. • Uses City-owned land. • Maximizing public land for public benefits, including new affordable housing as well as new community facilities, parkland and public realm improvements. • Mixed-income, mixed-use developments supporting transit-oriented and complete communities. • Enhanced consultation over the course of the development process.

6 Housing Now will provide affordable rental,Housing market Now rental and market ownership housing options.

7 Housing Now – 17 sites city-wide

8 Housing Now and Affordable Rent

Based on average asking rents in Toronto today, these people have to spend 37%-83% of their income on housing.

9 Supporting Complete Communities

10 Housing Targets and Project Objectives

Affordable Housing

Affordability Compatibility Accessibility

300 Urban 20% Units Design Affordable 50% Guidelines 15% + Affordable Design Market Excellence Broader Objectives for 1631 Queen Street East

Indigenous Placekeeping Engagement

Public Expanded Realm Childcare Centre

11 Project Schedule and Process Overview

Stage 1: Preliminary Stage 2: Development Stage 3: Market Stage 4: Delivery Design Concept Concept Offering • Vision • Final Development • Council Approval • Detailed Design • Design Principles Concept • Development • Site Plan • City-initiated Partner Application Rezoning • Construction

CONSULTATION CONSULTATION CONSULTATION

INDIGENOUS ENGAGEMENT

Design Review Design Review Panel #1 Panel #2

2021 2022

We are Here

12 1631 QUEEN STREET EAST

13 1631 Queen Street East

Harvey’s Restaurant

Queen Street East

Eastern Avenue

14 Site Context

View of the site from Queen Street East Looking west along Queen Street East

15 Site Context

View of the site looking east along Eastern Avenue View north along Kishigo Lane

16 Development Context Under Review Under Construction 1631 Queen Street East

1684-1702 Queen Street East 1624-1630 Queen Street East 1602-1604 Queen Street East

Queen Street East

1555-1575 Queen Street East

Eastern Avenue

Main Sewage Treatment Playground ue en

l el

Woodbine Park Planning Framework

Official Plan – Urban Structure Official Plan – Land Use (Avenues) (Mixed Use Areas)

Queen Street East Urban Design Guidelines and SASP 466

Zoning – Mixed Use Commercial Residential (MCR, 2.0)

18 DESIGN PRINCIPLES

19 Housing Now - CreateTO

CreateTO - 1631 Queen Street East

December 7, 2020 - Community Consultation

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N + + 21 Site Analysis Historical Context Housing Now - CreateTO

+ + 22 Site Analysis Historical Context Housing Now - CreateTO

MIXED USE

+ + 23 Site Analysis Transit, Parks & Open Space Housing Now - CreateTO

+ + 24 Site Analysis Surrounding Context Housing Now - CreateTO

+ + 25 Site Analysis Site Housing Now - CreateTO

+ + 26 Site Analysis Site Principles Housing Now - CreateTO

EASTERN AVE.

QUEEN ST. E

COXWELL ST.

N 1. Enhanced Public Realm Publicly Accessible Open Space along Kishigo Lane Overall area of accessible space: 16,000SF

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EASTERN AVE.

QUEEN ST. E

COXWELL ST.

N 2. Pedestrian & Vehicular Connection Through Existing Lane Pedestrian connectivity through lane to publicly accessible outdoor space Southern connection to Eastern Ave.

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Exterior: Dension Avenue Entrance

Denison Avenue Entrance Pedestrian Mews

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EASTERN AVE.

Publicly Accessible Space Residential

Childcare QUEEN ST. E Retail

COXWELL ST.

N 3. Childcare and Residential Access Childcare and Residential program with access to Publicly Accessible Space

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YWCA - 110 Edward St, Toronto Lawrence Orton - 3939 Lawrence Ave E

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EASTERN AVE.

QUEEN ST. E 4m

COXWELL ST.

N 4. Street Frontage and Setback Mid-Rise fronting Queen St. E with 62 childcare spaces. Setback to accomodate street trees Tall building fronting Eastern with animated frontage Midblock connection addressing east and west public spaces

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EASTERN AVE.

45°

QUEEN ST. E

COXWELL ST.

N 5. Site Constraints Built form within angular plane Develop Massing with three distinct forms

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Looking South-West

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Perspective Looking West

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LCBO 1654 Queen St E, Toronto,

Queen St. East

Perspective From Queen Looking West

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1555 - 1575 Queen Street E. (Don Summerville)

Queen St. East

Perspective From Queen Looking East

+ + 37 1631 Queen Street East - Site Plan Housing Now - CreateTO 2.1 4.0

1641 QUEEN ST E, HARVEY'S RESTAURANT RETAIL CHILDCARE

21.5 4.5

8.5 KISHIGO LANE CHILDCARE OUTDOOR

7.2 PLACEKEEPING

9.9 OPPORTUNITY 2.7 26 BIKE PARKING

AMENITY

2.1 TREE PROTECTION ZONE 1080 EASTERN AVENUE ! TCHC LANEWAY LOBBY

4.5 3.0 2.1

+ + SCALE 1:500 38 Queen Street East Section Housing Now - CreateTO

Precedent: Urban Retail Edge

+ + 39 Queen Street East Perspective Sketch Housing Now - CreateTO

QUEEN STREET EAST

+ + 40 Eastern Avenue Section Housing Now - CreateTO

Precedent: Active Street Frontages

+ + 41 Eastern Avenue Sketch Perspective Housing Now - CreateTO

EASTERN AVENUE

+ + 42 Laneway Section Housing Now - CreateTO

Precedent: Vehicular Laneway

+ + 43 Throughblock Connection - Public Lane Looking East Housing Now - CreateTO

+ + 44 PLACEKEEPING

45 Connection to Place Housing Now - CreateTO

- Indigenous approach to design and architecture = understanding place

- Toronto = a key link to Indigenous people making their way

- This site is within the traditional territory of the Missisaugas of the Credit, the Huron Wendat and the Haudenosaunee By unearthing the knowledge of their presence we can establish a clear connection to the natural landscape that was once mostly inhabited by plants and animals other than humans.

- We are only guests in this place with a clear responsibility to maintain the land not only for our modern lifestyle, for the original occupants

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- Importance of acknowledging directionality and referencing the larger Indigenous population

- acade, massing, and materiality to acknowledge the sun paths from a lower height in the winter, to a higher height in the summer

- cknowledge the direction of the preailing wind and celebrate rainfall

- esponding to natural forces in a manner that benefits building efficiency and building occupants i.e. heat low and cool high

- Materiality se of opaue and glaed surfaces, and consideration of sun-shading and operable windows

- Connection to the earth and the sky feet on the ground and clear iew of the stars

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EASTERN AVE.

QUEEN ST. E

COXWELL ST.

+ + 48 Living Landscape Housing Now - CreateTO

Norval Morisseau, “Shamam and his Friends”

- andscape should be thought about as an integral part of the deelopment and architecture

- How can landscape start to support not only the municipal reuirements for shading but the bio diersity that is surrounding the site

- andscape as a tool to aid in the biophilic effects of mental health

- andscape that is beneficial on multiple leels of the proect, including intensie green roofs and within the public realm

+ + 49 Planting as Nourishment Housing Now - CreateTO

- eintroducing harest into proect master planning

- ttention should be paid to T, CTI and of plantings throughout the site

- election of Indigenous plants, that go beyond typical aesthetic ambitions of urban landscapes

- lantings as a way to engage with community urban agriculture interactie gardens

- ttention to seasonal opportunities for planting and haresting

- pportunities for social actiities

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- cknowledgement of fire, water, air, and earth

- spirations beyond goals of sustainability

- egeneratie and restoratie aspirations and the impact on natural ecosystems and societies

- atural feature has been infilled through industrialiation of the City

- pportunities to naturalie the site and support plant and animal species

+ + 51 Cyclical Quality + Seasonality Housing Now - CreateTO

- trategic placement of plant species at all seasons

- ite becomes a learning tool as part of curriculum, and opportunity for children to learn seasonal cycles

- ploring opportunities to celebrate the lunar moon phases of the calendar year

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- The design, including interiors, public realm, and landscapes should encourage and make places for community engagement

- ocus on creating space that allows people to gather, formally, or informally in a ariety of sies and configurations

- These spaces should occur in arious locations thought the urban realm, landscape ,and within the building itself

- eryone being treated eually and eliminating hierarchy

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- The building site should encourage and promote inclusiity in seeral ways

- Beyond compliant, it should be niersally inclusie and safe to all liing things, including plants, animals, rain, sun worms and wind

- By thinking about the numerous species that we share the site with, and by considering all, we will begin to allow space for all species, not ust races or abilities, to eist harmoniously

- This is a big challenge it is a challenge that will push the way of thinking about design and architecture on this site towards euality and inclusiity for all.

Norval Morrisseau , “Androgyny 1983”

+ + 54 Presence of Craft Housing Now - CreateTO

- surey of traditional Indigenous architecture reeals a wide ariety of structures that are made from at hand materials such as earth, stone, wood, grass, animal hides and snow.

- While these materials are aried, a consistent trait amongst these precedents is the high degree of craftsmanship and the attention to detail that went into the making of art, tools, or buildings

- n aspiration of ueen should be for the contemporary constructions to epress a similar attention to detail and an approach to materiality and oinery that imbues the same alues as these historic precedents

- bundant, affordable materialsalue from resourcefullness, craftsmanship, and care

+ + 55 DISCUSSION

56 DISCUSSION

• What are some important features of the existing neighbourhood that should be considered when redeveloping the site? • Are there any opportunities to enhance the local neighbourhood that you would like to be considered? If so, what are they? • Do you have any concerns about the redevelopment of the site? What suggestions do you have, if any, on how these concerns could be best addressed? • Do you have any other comments or feedback for the Housing Now team?

57 Project Team - Contacts

If you have questions about 1631 Queen Street Local Councillor: East: Councillor Brad Bradford Paul Mule, Senior Planner Beaches-East York Community Planning, City Planning Division City Council Tel: 416-392-1306 Tel: 416-338-2755 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

If you have questions about the Housing Now Initiative:

Email: [email protected]