City Council on October 26 and 27, 2009, adopted the following:

1.         City Council adopt the revised two-tiered set of performance measures associated with the Toronto Green Standard as presented in Appendix A of the report (September 22, 2009) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division, to be applied to all applications under the Planning Act.

2.         City Council direct that the Toronto Green Standard report be circulated to the following organizations, and that they be requested and encouraged to adopt similar environmental standards, especially with regard to the Bird Friendly Guidelines and Light Pollution:

-           LEED:  Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (Green Buildings Certification Institute)

-           BOMA:  Building Owners and Managers Association

-           BILD:  Building Industry Land Development Association

-           Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative

-           Canada Green Building Council

-           AMO:  Association of Municipalities of Ontario

-           FCM:  Federation of Canadian Municipalities

3.         City Council refer the following motions to the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, for a report to the Planning and Growth Management Committee at its meeting on February 11, 2010:

              Moved by Councillor Moscoe:

1.         That City Council adopt the revised two-tiered set of performance measures associated with the Toronto Green Standard as presented in Appendix A of the report (September 22, 2009) from the Chief Planning and Executive Director, City Planning Division, to be applied to all applications under the Planning Act, with the following amendments:

a.         The section headed “Storage and Collection of Recycling and Organic Waste” be referred to the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division, in consultation with the General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services, to establish requirements for in-building systems that will better facilitate the City’s three-stream recycling program.  Those requirements to include structural changes to townhouse developments that will eliminate the requirement to wheel city recycling containers around the block to facilitate collection.

 b.        The section headed “Minimum Energy Performance” be referred back to the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division, to report on the impact of moving the requirement to provide Energy Star compliant refrigerators and dishwashers into Tier 1 standards.

2.         Buildings that are owned by the City of Toronto or any of its agencies, boards, commissions, corporations or divisions that are not heated or cooled be required to meet the same green roof standards applied to private sector buildings.

The Planning and Growth Management Committee recommends that:

1.         City Council adopt the revised two-tiered set of performance measures associated with the Toronto Green Standard as presented in Appendix A of the report (September 22, 2009) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division, to be applied to all applications under the Planning Act.

The purpose of this report is to provide a review of proposed revisions to the Toronto Green Standard prior to its launch January 31, 2010. Revisions proposed in this report reflect additional feedback from the development industry; City By-laws adopted since the approval of the TGS in 2008 and further review and analysis undertaken during the development of the implementation protocol.