PORT LANDS PLANNING FRAMEWORK + TRANSPORTATION & SERVICING MASTER PLAN February 13, 2014 Community Consultation Meeting

MEETING PURPOSE

First the River… …Now the Rest Present and seek feedback on:

1. Ideas for land use in the Port Lands 2. Alternatives for streets (including transit) and municipal servicing (water, wastewater and stormwater)

AGENDA

6:30 PM Drop-in (Display Boards)

7:00 PM Welcome and Opening Remarks

7:05 PM Overview of Planning Initiatives and Recap of Process

7:10 PM Port Lands Planning Framework: Lands Use Options

7:30 PM Transportation and Servicing Master Plan: Alternatives

7:45 PM Questions of Clarification

8:00 PM Facilitated Table Discussions

8:40 PM Report Back

9:00 PM Adjourn PORT LANDS PLANNING FRAMEWORK

DON VALLEY PARKWAY

LESLIE STREET STREET LESLIE LESLIE EXISTING +FRONT PLANNED STREET EAST ASSETS

Leslie Barns LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD EAST Streetcar Yard CARLAW AVENUE CARLAW 8

GA McCLeary Park RDIN ER E XPRE DON ROADWAY SSWAY 7 LESLIE STREET Keating Channel COMMISSIONERS STREET 4

Port Lands 2 Energy Centre 1 3

CHERRY STREET The Hearn 5 7 Tommy Thompson Park

Inner Harbour UNWIN AVENUE THE FILM SECTOR

DON VALLEY PARKWAY

LESLIE STREET STREET LESLIE LESLIE Toronto Outer Harbour FRONT STREET EAST Film Studios 6 LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD EAST Leslie Barns Cinespace AVENUE CARLAW Streetcar Yard Showline

GA McCLeary Park RDIN ER EX DON ROADWAY PRE 1 5 Heritage Buildings SSWAY New River Valley Tommy Thompson Park Keating Channel LESLIE STREET

COMMISSIONERS STREET 2 Promontory Park 6 Cherry Beach Pinewood Film PS Production Studios 3 The Ship Channel 7 Chimney Stacks

Port Lands Energy Centre 4 Turning Basin 8 Leslie Street Greening

CHERRY STREET The Hearn

Tommy Thompson Park

Inner Harbour PARKS AND OPEN SPACES UNWIN AVENUE

DON VALLEY PARKWAY

LESLIE STREET STREET LESLIE LESLIE

Corktown FRONT STREET EAST Common

LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD EAST Leslie Barns Outer Harbour AVENUE CARLAW Streetcar Yard

McCLeary Park GA RDIN ER E XPRE DON ROADWAY SSWAY Keating Channel LESLIE STREET

COMMISSIONERS STREET

Port Lands Energy Centre

CHERRY STREET The Hearn

Tommy Thompson Park

Inner Harbour UNWIN AVENUE

Outer Harbour

EXISTING PARKS & PLANNED PARKS & LAKE ONTARIO PARK OPEN SPACES OPEN SPACES MASTER PLAN PORT LANDS PLANNING FRAMEWORK

DON VALLEY PARKWAY LESLIE STREET LESLIE A WORKING PORT STREET LESLIE FRONT STREET EAST TOTAL CARGO Leslie Barns LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD EAST Streetcar Yard CARLAW AVENUE CARLAW EQUIVALENT CARGO INTO PORT TOTAL TRUCKS TRUCKS (2012) GA McCLeary Park RDIN ER E XPRE DON ROADWAY SSWAY LESLIE STREET Keating Channel

COMMISSIONERS STREET 4

5 6

Port Lands Energy Centre SALT

CHERRY STREET tonnes 1 SALT BOAT = ~26,000T 386,422 ~11,000 trucks 3 The Hearn Tommy Thompson Park

Inner Harbour 2 UNWIN AVENUE

A WORKING PORT NEEDS... 1 BOAT = ~750 Trucks

Dockwalls Space Equipment Access Separation Outer Harbour 1

CEMENT 543,000 tonnes ~15,500 trucks 1 Toronto Port Authority 5 Waterford (Aggregate) 1 CEMENT BOAT = ~7,600T 2 Road Salts 6 Strada Aggregates 1 BOAT = ~220 Trucks 3 Lafarge (Cement Powder) 4 Essroc Relocation (Cement Powder)

CITY SERVING USES

DON VALLEY PARKWAY

LESLIE STREET STREET LESLIE LESLIE FRONT STREET EAST The City Serving Uses located in the Port Lands provide needed services for the City to function. For example, the Leslie Barns LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD EAST Streetcar Yard CARLAW AVENUE CARLAW 5 Port Lands Energy Centre (#1 on the map) provides power to 6 downtown Toronto. GA McCLeary Park 4 RDIN ER E XPRE DON ROADWAY SSWAY LESLIE STREET Keating Channel 3

COMMISSIONERS STREET These uses are either:

2 1) Likely to remain in the Port Lands over the long-term Port Lands Energy Centre 1 because they are on non-city owned land or long-term HONI CHERRY STREET 1 The Hearn leases; Tommy Thompson Park 2) Would need to be relocated elsewhere in the Port Lands Inner Harbour or City UNWIN AVENUE

Outer Harbour

1 Port Lands Energy Centre & Hydro One 5 TTC Lake Shore Yard 2 Toronto Hydro Switching Station 6 Canada Post 3 Waste Transfer Station Overhead Hydro Transmission Wires 4 Toronto Hydro Offices PORT LANDS PLANNING FRAMEWORK LAND USE OPTIONS

PURPOSE OF THE LAND USE OPTIONS SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE The vision for the Port Lands in the Central Waterfront Secondary OPTIONS Plan is to transform the lands into a number of new urban KING STREET EAST districts set amid the hustle and bustle of Toronto’s port EASTERN AVENUE

DON VALLEY PARKWAY

LESLIE STREET STREET LESLIE LESLIE

Corktown Smart Centres activities. FRONT STREET EAST Common

Unilever Leslie Barns LAKE SHORE BOULEVARDTTC EAST Streetcar Yard CARLAW AVENUE CARLAW Lake Shore Canada Having a working port next to these new urban districts is a unique Showline Yard Post McCLeary Park Toronto Hydro LAND USE CATEGORIES O ce Building GA RDIN ER E opportunity, but also requires careful consideration. Port uses are XPRE DON ROADWAY SSWAY LESLIE STREET Keating Channel not necessarily compatible adjacent to where people live. There COMMISSIONERS STREET Turning Basin

Pinewood are also a number of existing industrial uses that will remain the long- LIVE-WORK CREATIVE INDUSTRY PORT / EMPLOYMENT Film Studios term. We would like to better define where land uses should go in COMMUNITIES DISTRICT DISTRICT Port Lands Energy Centre Ship Channel the Port Lands. This will allow us to: CHERRY STREET The Hearn Lafarge Tommy Thompson Park

• Provide more robust direction for the long-term vision of these Inner Harbour UNWIN AVENUE lands; • Ensure proper separation of industrial and port uses from the new communities that will be developed; and Outer Harbour • Continue to provide the services that grow the city and make the

city work. LIVE-WORK CREATIVE INDUSTRY PORT / EMPLOYMENT PARKS & COMMUNITIES DISTRICT DISTRICT OPEN SPACES

*Streets and blocks shown are conceptual and SOUTH OF EASTERN EXISTINGDRAFT USES - FOR DISCUSSION TO PURPOSES ONLY CATALYST USES / DECEMBER 12, 2013 are to be determined through the Class EA + Opportunities for living + Anchored by Pinewood Film Active, working port uses EMPLOYMENT AREA REMAIN DESTINATIONS Precinct Plan working Studios THINKING STRATEGICALLY Related and supportive Complete communities with Film studio expansion industries schools, affordable housing + opportunities other day-to-day needs Greening of port activities • The Lower Don Lands continues to be envisioned as a mixed-use, ABOUT REVITALIZATION Synergistic uses such as offices, These are some of the questions that we are thinking about to help us Retail and other active uses workshops, post-production, Other industrial and live-work community framed by the new, naturalized river valley at the base of buildings on design studios, architecture firms, employment activities + • The lands east of Carlaw Avenue would be used for port determine how land uses are organized in the Port Lands: main streets media, technology existing uses to remain in the long-term and employment purposes as there are existing uses that are Neighbourhood parks + open Retail and other active uses at the spaces base of buildings on main streets anticipated to remain in the long-term • Revitalization in the Lower Don Lands will take its cue from the new Transition from industrial to more • South of Ship Channel, east of the Hearn, the lands would sensitive uses river. What other features should inform revitalization in the balance of continue to be used for industrial and port purposes the lands? • The Hearn is transformed into a destination • How do we revitalize while ensuring that the uses that grow the city • The lands owned by the Toronto Port Authority remain in use as a and make the city work are still provided? working port • How much space should be reserved for our working port? • Where should people live recognizing that areas in the Port Lands will Different levels of employment intensification have been assumed continue to be used for industrial and port purposes over the long- for the South of Eastern area to help inform the studies and to have term? a better understanding of the transportation system needed to • What is the right mix of places for people to live and work in the Port support and accommodate significant economic growth. Lands in the context of the surrounding area?

How do you think we should be addressing these questions in the land use options? PORT LANDS PLANNING FRAMEWORK LAND USE OPTIONS

OPTION 1 OPTION 2

KING STREET EAST KING STREET EAST EASTERN AVENUE EASTERN AVENUE

DON VALLEY PARKWAY LESLIE STREET LESLIE

LESLIE STREET LESLIE DON VALLEY PARKWAY

LESLIE STREET STREET LESLIE LESLIE

Corktown Smart Centres Corktown Smart Centres FRONT STREET EAST Common FRONT STREET EAST Common

Unilever Leslie Barns Unilever Leslie Barns LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD EAST Streetcar Yard LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD EAST Streetcar Yard

CARLAW AVENUE CARLAW

CARLAW AVENUE CARLAW TTC TTC Showline Yard Canada Showline Yard Canada Post Post

McCLeary Park Toronto Hydro McCLeary Park Toronto Hydro GA Office Building Office Building RDIN GARD ER INER EX DON ROADWAY E PR XP DON ROADWAY ESSWA Waste Transfer RESSW Y LESLIE STREET AY LESLIE STREET Keating Channel Station Keating Channel Turning Basin COMMISSIONERS STREET COMMISSIONERS STREET Turning Basin Pinewood Pinewood DISCUSSION GUIDE QUESTIONS Film Studios Film Studios

Port Lands Port Lands Energy Centre Energy Centre Ship Channel Ship Channel These land use options are our thoughts and ideas for how CHERRY STREET CHERRY STREET The Hearn The Hearn land uses could be organized in the Port Lands. Thinking Lafarge Lafarge about these options... Tommy Thompson Park Tommy Thompson Park Inner Harbour UNWIN AVENUE Inner Harbour UNWIN AVENUE Which land use option best captures your vision for the long-term revitalization of the lands? Why? Outer Harbour Outer Harbour Toronto Port Authority Toronto Port Authority What improvements would you suggest we make to your preferred land use option? Why should these improvements LIVE-WORK CREATIVE INDUSTRY PORT / EMPLOYMENT PARKS & LIVE-WORK CREATIVE INDUSTRY PORT / EMPLOYMENT PARKS & be considered? COMMUNITIES DISTRICT DISTRICT OPEN SPACES COMMUNITIES DISTRICT DISTRICT OPEN SPACES

*Streets and blocks shown are conceptual and SOUTH OF EASTERN EXISTINGDRAFT USES - FOR DISCUSSION TO PURPOSES ONLY CATALYST USES / *Streets and blocks shown are conceptual and DECEMBER 12, 2013 are to be determined through the Class EA + SOUTH OF EASTERN EXISTINGDRAFT USES - FOR DISCUSSION TO PURPOSES ONLY CATALYST USES / DECEMBER 12, 2013 are to be determined through the Class EA + EMPLOYMENT AREA REMAIN DESTINATIONS Precinct Plans EMPLOYMENT AREA REMAIN DESTINATIONS Precinct Plans

OPTION 3 OPTION 4

KING STREET EAST KING STREET EAST COMPARISON OF OPTIONS EASTERN AVENUE EASTERN AVENUE

DON VALLEY PARKWAY LESLIE STREET LESLIE

DON VALLEY PARKWAY STREET LESLIE

LESLIE STREET STREET LESLIE LESLIE

Corktown Smart Centres Corktown Smart Centres FRONT STREET EAST Common FRONT STREET EAST Common SOUTH OF Leslie Barns Unilever Leslie Barns Unilever LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD EAST LAKE SHORE BOULEVARD EAST Streetcar Yard

Streetcar Yard AVENUE CARLAW PORT LANDS AVENUE CARLAW EASTERN TTC TTC Showline Canada Showline Yard Canada Yard Post POPULATION JOBS PORT* JOBS Post LINEAR METRES of ACTIVE DOCKWALL McCLeary Park Toronto Hydro McCLeary Park Toronto Hydro Office Building GA Office Building GARD RDIN INER ER E EX DON ROADWAY XP DON ROADWAY PR RESS ESSWA WAY Y LESLIE STREET LESLIE STREET Keating Channel Keating Channel Turning Basin TODAYOPTION 1 0 ~4,000 ~1,400 m ~4,000 COMMISSIONERS STREET Turning Basin COMMISSIONERS STREET Pinewood Pinewood Film Studios Film Studios

Port Lands Port Lands Energy Centre Energy Centre OPTION 1 ~40,000 ~50,000 ~930 m ~15,000 OPTION 1 Ship Channel Ship Channel

CHERRY STREET CHERRY STREET The Hearn Lafarge The Hearn Lafarge OPTION 2 ~36,000 ~36,000 ~2,020 m Tommy Thompson Park Tommy Thompson Park Inner Harbour UNWIN AVENUE Inner Harbour UNWIN AVENUE

OPTIONOPTION 3 3 ~38,000 ~41,000 ~1,580 m Up to 55,000 Outer Harbour Outer Harbour Toronto Port Authority Toronto Port Authority OPTIONOPTION 4 4 ~40,000 ~40,000 ~1,350 m LIVE-WORK CREATIVE INDUSTRY PORT / EMPLOYMENT PARKS & LIVE-WORK CREATIVE INDUSTRY PORT / EMPLOYMENT PARKS & *Excludes Toronto Port Authority Site COMMUNITIES DISTRICT DISTRICT OPEN SPACES COMMUNITIES DISTRICT DISTRICT OPEN SPACES

*Streets and blocks shown are conceptual and *Streets and blocks shown are conceptual and SOUTH OF EASTERN EXISTINGDRAFT USES - FOR DISCUSSION TO PURPOSES ONLY CATALYST USES / SOUTH OF EASTERN EXISTINGDRAFT USES - FOR DISCUSSION TO PURPOSES ONLY CATALYST USES / DECEMBER 12, 2013 are to be determined through the Class EA + DECEMBER 12, 2013 are to be determined through the Class EA + EMPLOYMENT AREA REMAIN DESTINATIONS Precinct Plans EMPLOYMENT AREA REMAIN DESTINATIONS Precinct Plans