City Council adopted my motion to require the province and their private partner ChoiceREIT to include a minimum of 20 percent affordable housing at the Gerrard-Carlaw TOC site.
A 'Transit-Oriented Community' (TOC) is a special arrangement between Infrastructure Ontario and a private developer to allow for significant increases in density at stations along the Ontario Line.
A TOC is being planned for the future Gerrard Station on the Ontario Line at Riverdale Plaza. Since it was announced, I have pressed Infrastructure Ontario and the developer ChoiceREIT to add affordable housing into their plan. I am very disappointed that no commitment to include affordable housing has been made.
In response, I submitted two motions that were considered first at last month's Toronto and East York Community Council and then at City Council this week:
I'm pleased to share they were adopted by City Council. You can read the full status report submitted to the Toronto and East York Community Council here.
Thank you to the approximately 1,000 people from across the community who signed this petition that I submitted to City Council this week.
Ford's waterfront takeover, cracking down on bad landlords, pothole & road repair strategy, paid snow-shovelling program, city-owned public grocery stores & more at busy City Council session.
City Council approves the 2026 City Budget this week. Read my budget breakdown.
We considered luxury home tax rates, priority signalling for LRTs and streetcars, a maximum heat bylaw along with our next five-year climate plan and the Portlands Energy Centre.
