February 28, 2019 Mr…

February 28, 2019

Mr. Charles O’Hara
Ontario Growth Secretariat
Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
17th floor 777 Bay Street
Toronto, ON M5G 2E5

Dear Mr. O’Hara:

RE: Proposed Amendment 1 to the Growth Plan
Comment Submission on behalf of David H. Green Investments Limited
1306-1310 The Queensway, Toronto
ERO No. 013-4504

We are the solicitors for David H. Green Investments Limited.

Our client owns lands at the northwest corner of Kipling Avenue and The Queensway in the City of Toronto. The property is municipally addressed as 1306-1310 The Queensway and was formerly home to Queensway Audi (Figure 1).

We have reviewed the mapping for the proposed Provincially Significant Employment Zones. Our clients lands have been included in proposed Provincially Significant Employment Zone 13 (427 QEW).

While our clients lands have been historically designated as Employment Area prior to 2013, in 2013 the City completed a Five Year Municipal Comprehensive Review (“MCR”) of the Official Plan Employment Area policies. On November 21, 2013 the City’s Planning and Growth Management Committee passed the following recommendation for the our clients lands:

“With respect to 1306-1310 The Queensway:

a. Based on the criteria in the Growth Plan, the Provincial Policy Statement and the Official Plan policies, City Council redesignate the lands at 1306 -1310 The Queensway as Mixed Use Areas.

b. That a Site Specific Policy be added to require a buffer and any required environmental mitigation measures including noise, vibration and odour between any sensitive land use and the existing Employment Area to the west.”

See attached excerpt from the Decision Record of the Planning and Growth Management Committee in
Appendix “A”.

City Council, on December 16, 2013 accepted Planning and Growth Management Committee’s recommendation for our clients lands and subsequently adopted Official Plan Amendment 231 (“OPA
231”) to implement new employment policies and designations for the City’s employment lands, including the recommendation to convert our clients lands from Employment Area to Mixed Use Area. See attached excerpt from the Decision Record of the City Council in Appendix “B”.

The Province, through the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing approved the majority of OPA 231
on July 14, 2014. The conversion of the Subject Lands was included in the approval by the Province.
See attached July 14, 2014 letter attached hereto in Appendix “C”.

Based on the above history our clients lands are designated as Mixed Used Area and within Site and Area Specific Policy 455 in the City of Toronto Official Plan. I note that the City’s online Official Plan mapping has not yet been updated to reflect this designation given the appeal to OPA 231 has only recently been resolved. As such, I refer to the land use mapping to be approved in OPA 231 as shown in Figure 2.

On the basis of the above, we request that our clients lands be removed from the limit of Provincially Significant Employment Zone 13 (427 QEW) as it is no longer designated as an Employment Area in the City’s Official Plan and therefore does not meet the definition of an Employment Area as set out in the 2014 Provincial Policy Statement or the 2017 Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe.

We further request that should the mapping be modified that additional consultation is undertaking to ensure the mapping is accurate.

We appreciate your attention to this matter and hope that our request to correct this mapping is undertaken.

Thank you.

Yours very truly,
HOROSKO PLANNING LAW

Barry A. Horosko, BES, JD

cc: Clients
D. McKay
Encl.