City Adopts First Amendment To Official Plan Under 5-Year Review

In 2011 the City of Toronto (the "City") commenced review of its Official Plan (the "OP Review"). Pursuant to section 26 of the Planning Act, the Official Plan must be reviewed and revised every 5 years to ensure that it conforms with provincial plans, has regard for matters of provincial interest and is consistent with provincial policy statements. Therefore, the purpose of the OP Review is to update, revise or delete existing policies and to add new policies where necessary, as a result of recent provincial legislation. To identify policies in need of revision, extensive public consultation was conducted by the City from May to December 2011. As a result of this consultation, several areas of the Official Plan were identified for revision during the OP Review including (1) heritage policies (2) affordable housing (3) transportation planning policies and (4) employment lands policies and designations.