The City of Toronto’s ground-breaking zoning and planning changes were aimed at breaking down restrictive zoning rules, but some novel interpretations are making things complicated again
2165 Gerrard Street East is a proposed 3-storey multiplex and 2-storey laneway duplex development designed by Atkinson Architect for P&R Developments and Galbraith & Associates Inc. planning.Small-scale builders are sounding the alarm that planning bureaucrats are erecting roadblocks to frustrate the intent of a multiplex-permitting by-law designed to ease the grinding housing and affordability crisis in Canada ’s largest city.
“I have multiple projects that could be negatively affected,” said Craig Race a Toronto architect who built his first fourplex in 2017 well before the new by-law. He said the change in tone from the city since 2023 had, until recently, been nothing short of miraculous. “As these eight units are all contained within a single building, the proposal constitutes an apartment building in accordance with the Zoning By-law,” the city staff report reads. It then outlines the ways apartment buildings are not permitted in the neighbourhood zoning.
“When you’re doing this stuff, there’s a lot of voices in the room, a lot of entrenched opinions at the senior levels of planning,” Mr. Uens said. “I don’t think there was any nefarious intent: I think it’s a function of when you’ve got an absolute labyrinth of a zoning bylaw.” Treating these paired fourplexes as a single apartment building is like a kiss of death according to Mr. Galbraith. He said there are huge areas of the city where zoning bans apartment buildings – defined as any building with more than five apartments – and their planning requirements are vastly different than a multiplex.
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