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Study Overview
The City Planning Division, in consultation with Brook McIlroy Planning + Urban Design / Pace Architects (BMI/Pace) has undertaken the Avenues and Mid-Rise Buildings Study to implement the Official Plan objective of reurbanizing Toronto’s arterial corridors. The main objective of this City-wide Study is to encourage future intensification along Toronto's Avenues that is compatible with the adjacent neighbourhoods through appropriately scaled and designed mid-rise buildings.
Building on and learning from Avenue Studies already completed, this Study identifies a list of best practices, categorizes the Avenues based on historic, cultural and built form characteristics, establishes a set of performance standards for new mid-rise buildings and identifies areas where the performance standards should be applied.
What's New
Summary of the Performance Standards for Mid-Rise Buildings
City Planning has prepared a presentation summarizing each of the Performance Standards for Mid-Rise Buildings. The Performance Standards are included in Chapter 3 of the final consultant's report.
The Avenues & Mid-Rise Buildings Study wins two Planning Awards
City Planning is pleased to announce that the Avenues & Mid-Rise Buildings Study has received the 2011 Ontario Professional Planners Institute’s Excellence in Planning Awards in the Community Planning and Development Studies/Reports category and an Honourable Mention for the Canadian Institute of Planners' 2011 Award for Planning Excellence in the Urban Design Category. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributed to the Study and we continue to welcome feedback and comments.
Staff Report adopted at City Council
Toronto City Council, on July 8, 2010, adopted the recommendations contained in the staff report prepared by City Planning with modifications.
Staff will now use the Performance Standards for Mid-Rise Buildings in reviewing proposals for a two year monitoring period. An implementation strategy be developed in order to incorporate the Performance Standards in guidelines, policies or new as-of-right zoning.
At the end of the two year monitoring period, staff will report back to the Planning and Growth Management Committee on the effectiveness of the Performance Standards and potential implementation measures.
As a result of adopted motions changes have been made to the following Study maps:
Final Consultants’ Report
The Final Report submitted by the consultants for the Avenues & Mid-Rise building Study is available below:
- Final Consultants’ Report
(Full Document: Please note that this document is 18.7 MB and may take a few minutes to load depending on your download speed)
You can also view each section of the Final Report:
Thank you to everyone that participated in the public open houses and community meetings. The final Avenues & Mid-Rise Buildings Study report, prepared by Brook Mcllroy Planning & Urban Design/Pace Architect (BMI/PACE) will be posted shortly. City Planning's staff report is scheduled to be before the May 19, 2010 meeting of the Planning and Growth Management Committee.
- Public Information Sessions were held on:
- Tuesday, February 16, 2010:
Metro Hall, Room 308/309, 7:00 p.m.
- Thursday, February 18, 2010:
Scarborough Civic Centre, Council Chambers, 7:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, February 24, 2010:
North York Civic Centre, Council Chambers, 7:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, March 3, 2010:
Etobicoke Civic Centre, Council Chambers, 7:00 p.m.
- On Wednesday, September 16, 2009, Planning and Growth Management Committee considered item PG 31.1 “Update on the Avenues and Mid-Rise Buildings Action Plan”.
The report included a list of 21 Draft Performance Standards for mid-rise buildings.
- The Avenues & Mid-Rise Buildings Study was presented at the Ontario Professional Planners Institute program night. The presentation is available here.
- Avenues & Mid-Rise Buildings Study presented at Walk 21 – International Conference on Walking. View the poster here.
Background
Past Staff Reports:
2005 Mid-Rise Symposium – Urbanizing the Avenues
- On November 28 and 29, 2005, City Planning Staff hosted a public symposium entitled “Mid-Rise Buildings’ – Urbanizing the Avenues”. The purpose of the three part symposium was to explore opportunities for encouraging the development of mid-rise buildings on Toronto’s Avenues.
Contact Us
If you have questions about the Avenues and Mid-Rise Buildings Study or if you would like to provide feedback on the draft performance standards:
City of Toronto Resources
External resources
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