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Tall building design guidelines update Convention venue needed downtown GROWING UP GETTING By Jake Tobin Garrett COMPETITIVE Anyone watching the city’s skyline over the past 10 years By John Michael McGrath would have noticed it has gotten both increasingly crowded and taller. Th is bourgeoning tall building environment brings new design challenges and opportunities that the city hopes Toronto needs a new, large, convention space according to to address in an update to its tall building design guidelines, respected people in the industry—and it needs one downtown, which were adopted at planning and growth management not at Exhibition Place. committee yesterday. Toronto “absolutely” needs a newer, larger convention “It’s been an incredible laboratory for studying tall buildings space says Lyle Hall, managing director at HLT Advisory— because we’re building more tall buildings than most cities in “unequivocally.” Hall is one of the leading consultants in the the world,” city urban design director Robert Freedman told hotel and tourism industry, and his research informed city NRU. “Th ere’s been a huge amount of change and certainly a manager Joe Pennachetti’s recent report. Th e key issue, says huge number of towers added to the city as these guidelines Hall, is Toronto’s lack of “contiguous space,” meaning a single have evolved.” large exhibit space for the large events that have the greatest Since the guidelines were put in place in 2006, the city has economic impact. received 290 tall building applications, he said, adding that “It’s virtually impossible to rent the Metro Toronto many of those were for multiple towers, so the actual number Convention Centre to one customer to use both sides,” is larger. Hall told NRU this week. While the MTCC has a favorable “Tall buildings have civic obligations,” chief planner downtown location and a large volume of exhibition space, Jennifer Keesmaat told committee members. Th e guidelines the fact that it was constructed in two halves, with the south are meant to ensure more and better open spaces and wider building being added in the 1990s, makes it unattractive for sidewalks to create a stronger public realm. the largest events. Both the tall building environment and the guidelines On Monday Pennachetti released his long-awaited report have essentially evolved together, Freedman told NRU, with on the potential benefi ts of a casino in the City of Toronto. the guidelines revised as the city learns more about its tall One key element of his report is the assertion that Toronto is buildings. Th e update also consolidates two CONTINUED PAGE 3 > lagging behind other cities in North America CONTINUED PAGE 4 > INSIDE Economics Matters

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UPCOMING High Park going higher? DATES COMMUNITY STIRRED UP APRIL 15 By Jake Tobin Garrett Executive Committee, 9:30 a.m., committee room 1

APRIL 17 Th e area on the north side of High Park Community Development and Recreation has been a hotbed of development activity Committee, 9:30 a.m., committee room 1 lately—many of it coming up against steep APRIL 22 Economic Development Committee, 9:30 opposition from residents as they grapple a.m., committee room 1 with the frequency of new proposals in a Parks and Environment Committee, 9:30 relatively small area. a.m., committee room 2 A recent proposal, Grenadier Square, APRIL 23 which proposes two 31-storey towers and Executive Committee, 9:30 a.m., committee room 1 the demolition of 16 rental townhouse units,

APRIL 29 is already drawing concern from neigh- Board of Health, 1:00 p.m., committee room 1 bours. If built as proposed, the towers would MAY 1 be some of the tallest in the area. Budget Committee, 9:30 a.m., committee room 1 Ward councillor Sarah Doucette said

MAY 2 she “defi nitely” feels an increasing pressure Toronto Preservation Board, 2:00 p.m., from residents because of the fl urry of committee room 2 development applications in the area. MAY 7-8 Council, 9:30 a.m., council chambers “Suddenly we are being inundated with development,” she told NRU. “Of course MAY 10 + STEELE/IBI ARCHITECTS IMAGE: PAGE Aboriginal Affairs Committee, 9:30 a.m., people are going to be concerned and of Proposed Grenadier Square redevelopment tower committee room 1 course people are going to be scared.” MAY 13 “Certainly we’re getting that impression Government Management Committee, “Th e thing that has happened with this 9:30 a.m., committee room 1 as well,” Etobicoke York district community development—which has not happened MAY 14 planning east section manager Lou with any others—is people have been Etobicoke York Community Council, 9:30 Moretto told NRU regarding a heightened a.m., Etobicoke Civic Centre worked up thinking that they’ve missed level of anxiety amongst residents. “Th e the chance to speak,” she said. North York Community Council, 9:30 a.m., North York Civic Centre area has been quiet for awhile and all of a In a March 28 letter to residents, Scarborough Community Council, 9:30 sudden there seems to be a lot of interest Doucette attempted to dispel some of this a.m., Scarborough Civic Centre in terms of development activity.” concern. However, she also noted her own Doucette said she’s been trying to get apprehension about the proposal. She told ahead of the game by working proactively NRU she thinks the towers could come to keep residents from panicking when down in height. CITY OF TORONTO EDITION they see that a development application Th e site, located at 51-77 Quebec Avenue

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CITY OF TORONTO GREA TER TORONTO VANCOUVER 3 CITY OF TORONTO EDITION FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013 GROWING UP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 previously existing guidelines—the citywide guidelines and in the update. the downtown-specifi c guidelines. Th e guidelines suggest looking at the setbacks fi rst “because Th at proliferation of tall buildings means the city is paying that gives you the adequate spacing between neighbouring more attention to the surrounding context. Based on feedback towers, whether existing or future, and then look at what kind from the city’s urban design review panel, Freedman said the of a fl oor plate—what sized tower—you can get,” he said. updated guidelines include requests for documents showing Some in the industry have expressed concern over how the the context of proposed tall building developments. guidelines have been applied throughout time, questioning Now the guidelines better address the cumulative eff ect of whether they are treated more as regulations. towers going into areas that are already rich with existing or Quadrangle Architects principal Les Klein said that, proposed tall buildings. Even though the application may be while the overall intent of the guidelines was good, their main for a single tower in these areas, it’s clearly important to know concern was in the application of the guidelines themselves. “what’s the cumulative eff ect in terms of shadowing, in terms “Our experience has been that the starting off position is of wind, in terms of sky view, privacy—all of those issues,” he that these are not guidelines, these are standards,” he told said. NRU. Urban design review panel vice-chair and Diamond Schmitt “When the intent of a guideline is to generally guide Architects principal Michael Leckman said the more that is direction of development, it implies an understanding that known about the surrounding context of a development— each site is unique in its context. When you apply guidelines both existing and proposed buildings—the better. as though they are rigid, absolute, minimum standards that “Being able to see [developments] only piecemeal will must be met in all sites, that actually negates the whole notion deliver, in large part, a lot of the environment we’re getting of guidelines.” right now. Which is rarely as well coordinated visually and He didn’t think that the updated guidelines addressed that socially and from a public realm point of view as it should be,” issue. “Th ey continue to be called guidelines, but there’s no he said. guarantee that that’s how they will be applied,” Klein said. Aside from just the sheer number of tall buildings going up Th is echoes a concern that the development industry had, in the city, one change in tall building design that the city has which was that sometimes city planners “treat [the guidelines] been dealing with lately is proposals for super tall buildings of as gospel,” Building Industry and Land Development up to 80-storeys. Association Toronto chapter co-chair Leona Savoie told While Freedman noted shadow concerns, he said much of NRU. For the industry, she said that a section dealing with what the city is looking at is how the building interacts with the interpretation and application of the guidelines—the “how the street. “Certainly we’re concerned about fl oor plate size, and where the guidelines apply” section—was key. but many of the issues are similar regardless of how tall the “It was very important for our membership to actually see a buildings are.” section dedicated in the new document to that interpretation,” However, Leckman said that while the design guidelines she said. “Th at [the guidelines] are not meant to be a set of “provide a very clear structure” for buildings in the lower strict by-law standards.” When that section was inserted, range of heights, he wasn’t sure if there was enough history or she said much of the anxiety felt by their membership was knowledge in the city yet to understand how these super tall alleviated. buildings may require diff erent design controls. Freedman said that the guidelines are not meant as a “I’m not sure that the guidelines are doing anything wrong,” checklist and that each application needs to be looked at he stressed. “But I suspect that those tall buildings will have “through the lens of the entire document.” impacts that we haven’t yet predicted.” “It’s not that every single number gets adhered to, but there’s Freedman noted that the city is also receiving more a balance,” he said, adding that from a design perspective this applications for developments on smaller sites in the city. approach results “in the level of design that you need to create Th ese present their own design challenges that are addressed a good building.” nru 4 CITY OF TORONTO EDITION FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013 GETTING COMPETITIVE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 in the convention business because of the lack of a single, large exhibition space. MTCC executive vice president John Houghton confi rmed in an interview with NRU that the largest events do strain the centre’s capacity. For example, when the city hosted the Microsoft ’s Worldwide Partner Conference in 2012, it occupied the north and south MTCC buildings as well as the Air Canada Centre. “Th ey fi nd that very kludgy when they compare that to what they’re able to fi nd under one roof in the United States,” says Houghton. “Th ey’re hesitant to pick us if they can do the whole thing in a city like Boston, Chicago, or any other major destination that has the space to hold them all.” PHOTOS.COM While Pennachetti’s report states that the impact of a new contiguous convention 10,000 or more delegates that the largest events bring would space would be comparable whether it’s built downtown or at need to be bused in or fi nd some other solution to get them Exhibition Place, Hall says that the positive economic impacts from the ample hotel space in the city’s core. will be larger if it’s built downtown, favoring the Metro On Th ursday, the Greater Toronto Hotel Association sent Convention Centre site. a letter to Toronto council endorsing a recent proposal by Greater Toronto Hotel Association president Terry Oxford Properties Group, which owns the Metro Convention Mundell agrees, saying the draw of a downtown site is the Centre, to build a new casino and expanded convention centre “campus eff ect” for convention goers. on the site. According to Mundell, a casino is the only way to “You’ve got a ton of spectacular restaurants, retail, all of the get private money to fi nance the expansion of the convention amenities that delegates love to do,” Mundell told NRU. “Th ey centre. also spend more money because they’re right there.” It’s a very Oxford Properties president Blake Hutcheson welcomed diff erent vision from a resort-focused development, where the GTHA letter and told NRU that a new convention centre the location is the amenity and is built to keep visitors on site, should be downtown. he explained. “Th e entertainment district was created for a reason,” Hall says that one concern if the city tried to simply add hotel said Hutcheson. He warns that a casino/convention centre space to the Direct Energy Centre at Exhibition Place—which development outside of the downtown core could harm the has a large, contiguous exhibition space—is that instead of hotels that make up “the built fabric of the city.” drawing in new business to the city, it would displace existing “Th ere’s a lot of logic to levering off the existing hotel stock— business from the downtown core. [there are] 15,000 hotel rooms within walking distance of this “If you build an 800-room hotel at Exhibition Place, the risk site,” says Hutcheson. nru is you draw events away from the Westin Harbour Castle, the Sheraton Centre, the Chelsea, and the Royal York, which are all bigger than 800 rooms,” he said. “Moving them somewhere To subscribe to Novae Res Urbis City of Toronto Edition else isn’t additive to the city.” go to www.nrupublishing.com. Hall adds that one 800-room hotel wouldn’t be enough for the kind of events a large space would serve anyway. 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TORONTO BRIEFS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 spend over $155-million to yesterday, committee development in the Humber expansion or proximity to improve road and bridge adopted a request by Bay Shores neighbourhood any growth or employment quality throughout the city. Councillor Peter Milczyn to and concerns from residents areas.” Staff will report back study relocating the Mimico over transit accessibility, to the May 16 committee Relocation of Mimico GO GO Station 1.5 kilometres he wrote. In his letter to meeting on a timeline for the Station study east to the vicinity of committee, Milcyzn noted study. nru At the planning and growth Parklawn Road. Th is would the current location “is management committee respond to the “explosive” not terribly well suited to COMMUNITY STIRRED UP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2

Avenue, is owned by High Park Bayview Inc. It has retained Gregory Byrne’s preliminary report, which was amended to GWL Realty Advisors Inc. to redevelop the area and Page increase the number of people who receive public consultation + Steele/IBI Group Architects have designed the buildings. notices at Tuesday’s Etobicoke York Community Council Two existing 20-storey apartment buildings on the site would meeting. Aside from issues of height, density and shadow, be retained. Byrne noted the loss of rental housing on the site. GWL spokesperson Libbie Jennings wrote in an email to Th e 16 existing rental townhouse units proposed to be NRU that GWL believes the proposed height and density are demolished would not be replaced—something that Doucette compatible with the neighbourhood. “We are committed to said was a “big concern.” a thoughtful approach to development that is respectful of Th e townhouse units are “believed to be in the upper residents, the neighbourhood and the environment,” she added. range rent and so therefore aren’t caught by the [city’s] rental Doucette hopes to organize a working group that she said protection policy,” Moretto said, adding that staff is currently will involve the community more in the process. reviewing the rents. Such working groups have been organized by Doucette in “Th is is the fi rst time I’ve dealt with rental units which will the past for other contentious developments in the immediate not be replaced,” Doucette said. nru area, including Th e Daniels Corporation’s HighPark Condominiums designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects that was recently approved at the OMB over opposition from The University of Toronto’s the community. (See NRU Toronto edition February 1, 2013.) Planning Alumni Committee Presents In addition to the HighPark Condominiums, there are two The 17th Annual Friends of Planning Spring Social mid-rise buildings proposed by North Drive Investments The good, the bad, and the ugly and designed by Quadrangle Architects at 1990 Bloor Street Jeanhy Shim Hart House Great Hall April 17, 2013 6 - 9 pm President, West—which has been appealed to the OMB—and 2114 Bloor Housing Lab Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle Tickets: Street West. & 20 year veteran University of Toronto $45 prior to April Real Estate Analyst Residents launched an online petition in late March that St. George Campus $50 thereafter featured speaker has so far garnered over 300 signatures in opposition to the www.alumni.utoronto.ca/spring-social generously proposed 31-storey towers. Comments range from concerns [email protected] 416 978 2275 sponsored by over the height, to the changing character of the area, to Join hundreds of professionals in support of the University of Toronto’s Masters Program in Planning loading up the area with too much density. and Urban Design Studies. TD Insurance Some of the these comments were echoed in city planner 7 CITY OF TORONTO EDITION FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013 STANDING COMMITTEE AGENDAS

SPECIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS

Th e Executive Committee will consider the following at its Shelter management information system—A presentation meeting on Monday and Tuesday April 15-16 at 9:30 a.m. in from staff on how shelter beds are managed using the shelter committee room 1. management information system in response to a request from the April 3-4 council meeting. New convention and casino development in Toronto—Th e long-awaited report from city manager Joe Pennachetti Implementing the housing stabilization fund— Report recommends that council either express its support or recommends that council approve the creation of a housing opposition to a new casino and convention centre development allowance funded by the unused 2013 budget allocation. Th e either in the downtown core or at Exhibition Place. Th is is the report provides a summary of the issues staff faced in creating only item on the agenda, which is currently scheduled for two the housing stabilization fund, which replaced the community days. start-up and maintenance benefi t on January 1, 2013. Because of issues in start-up, use of the housing stabilization fund has been lower than expected, prompting staff to recommend the allowance as a way of using unallocated budget in 2013.

Parent Resources at the Riverdale United Church—Letter from Councillor Paula Fletcher requests the city ensure the childcare provider Parent Resources is given “comparable operating space” within any development that replaces the Riverside United Church, which has been declared surplus by the United Church of Canada. According to Fletcher’s letter, Parent Resources is visited by 100 families daily.

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND RECREATION Th e Economic Development Committee will consider the COMMITTEE following at its meeting on Monday April 22 at 9:30 a.m. in committee room 1. Th e Community Development and Recreation Committee will Film, television and digital media—Staff report recommends consider the following at its meeting on Wednesday April 17 at that council congratulate Toronto’s screen-based industries for 9:30 a.m. in committee room 1. their contribution to the city’s economy. In 2012 the industry SCHEDULED REPORTS generated $1.2-billion in direct expenditures, the second year in a row to exceed $1-billion. 10:00 a.m. Acceptance of artwork donation from Charles Pachter—Staff Toronto seniors strategy —Staff report recommends adoption report recommends council accept a donation of 11 paintings of a new seniors strategy for the city, to deal with the issues for inclusion in the city’s historical collection. raised by Toronto’s aging population. Th e strategy is intended to deal with issues ranging from elder abuse to facilitating Aerospace campus cluster—Staff report recommends that better communication among age groups. council approve continued eff orts to create CONTINUED PAGE 8 > 8 CITY OF TORONTO EDITION FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013 STANDING COMMITTEE AGENDAS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 an aerospace industry and technology cluster within Downsview supervisors and landscape architects are aware of opportunities Park. Staff proposes to report back to the committee with a to use reclaimed wood more oft en, and “will continue to do progress report on developing an implementation plan. so… on a case by case basis,” according to the report.

Creation of a working group for Mr. Christie site—Staff report Summary of Toronto’s 2011 greenhouse gas and air quality on council’s direction from its November 29, 2012 meeting to pollutant emissions inventory—Information report states that form a working group to preserve employment lands on the Toronto has exceeded its emission reduction target for CO2 Mr. Christie site at 2150 Lake Shore Boulevard West. Property emissions. In 2007, the city set a 2012 target of reducing CO2 owner Mondelez Canada has said the facility will be closed emissions by 6 per cent relative to 1990 levels. Based on 2011 and sold. Staff indicates that it is premature to form a working data, staff reports a 2012 reduction of 37 per cent. However, group before the planning and growth management committee the city is not expected to meet its target for reducing smog- receives a preliminary report, expected in spring 2013. forming emissions.

BIA items—Several items on the agenda include small matters Request for staff report regarding the usage of bake ovens in the with respect to the city’s BIAs. One item recommends City of Toronto—Letter from Councillor Ana Bailão requests approval of a name change for the Queensway BIA to information on the hours bake ovens in city parks are available “shoptheQueensway.com BIA.” Another item recommends and how oft en they are actually used. nru approval of a slight change to the Riverside BIA’s boundaries to incorporate the Edge Condominium at 625 Queen Street East, which has retail space at grade.

PARKS AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE

Th e Parks and Environment Committee will consider the following at its meeting on Monday April 22 at 9:30 a.m. in committee room 2.

Parks plan 2013-2017—Staff recommends council approve the new fi ve-year parks plan. Implementation of the plan will require $1.18-million in the 2014 operating budget and $2-million in new 2014 capital budget but no new spending in 2013.

Water access in city parks and recreation facilities—Deferred from the March 5 parks and environment committee meeting, the information report estimates that installing 10 water bottle fi lling stations would cost the city $75,000 which can be accommodated in the existing parks and recreation budget.

Repurposed wood furniture in parks—Information report sum- marizes the costs of using reclaimed wood from city tree maintenance for furniture in parks. Staff reports the costs of repurposed wood furniture are higher both to procure and maintain. Park 9 CITY OF TORONTO EDITION FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013 TORONTO OMB NEWS

Scarborough consent and variances approved Scarborough Automotive Centre Limited of council’s failure to enact zoning by-law and offi cial plan amendments and plan In a decision issued March 25, board member Sylvia Suther- of subdivision application. Th ese would permit development land allowed an appeal by Natalie Chen of a committee of of a retail commercial plaza at 15, 25 and 35 Automall Drive adjustment decision to refuse minor variances and consent to and 958 Milner Avenue. Th e development would contain four sever. Th ese were requested to permit demolition of an existing stand-alone buildings. home at 32 Bexhill Avenue and replace it with two new homes. Th e lands are currently designated as employment area in Variances requested for both parcels are decreases in the the city’s offi cial plan. Scarborough Automotive Centre counsel lot frontage from 12 to 7.6 metres, lot area from 371 to 242 Mary Flynn-Guglietti (McMillan) informed the board that square metres, south side yard setback from 0.9 to 0.6 metres while the designation would not change, the proposal would and parking space width from 3.3 to three metres. An increase add permissions for large-scale retail uses and a gas bar. in lot coverage from 33 to 45 per cent was also requested. City counsel Kelly Matsumoto noted that the site is currently A city staff report states the reverse slop driveway and lot under review by the city in its fi ve-year review of all employment coverage variances would result in a development that would areas. “Th e review of employment areas and associated policies be incompatible with the character of the neighbourhood. may impact the city’s response to the applicant’s development Planner Julius De Ruyter (PMG Planning Consultants), project,” the board heard. providing evidence for Chen, pointed out that the by-law does A further prehearing was scheduled for June 26. not prohibit reverse slope driveways, with several already Solicitors in the case are Mary Flynn-Guglietti (McMillan) found in the neighbourhood. Th e board agreed the driveway representing Scarborough Automotive Centre Limited and would not be out of character with the area. Kelly Matsumoto representing the City of Toronto. (See OMB Ruyter also pointed to several similar variances and consent Case No. PL121096.) nru to sever approvals in the area, with 14 approvals given for lot coverage greater than 33 per cent. Th e proposal represents an effi cient use of land, he argued. While neighbours at the hearing said the zoning by-law should be enforced, the board pointed out that the zoning is out of date and thus had not been enforced. Th e solicitor in the case was Michael Vaughan representing Natalie Chan. (See OMB Case No. PL121156.)

Prehearing set for Scarborough appeal

In a decision issued April 4, board member Jan de Pencier Seaborn scheduled a prehearing conference for appeals by

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