| 141431 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Toronto’s Early Years and Child Care Service Plan, 2025-2030 | 2025.EC22.1 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>This report seeks approval of Toronto’s Early Years and Child Care Service Plan, 2025-2030 (“Service Plan”). The Service Plan guides Toronto’s approach, in collaboration with sector partners, to planning and managing the early years and child care system over the next five years.</p>
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<p>As the early years and child care sector responds to new realities resulting from the implementation of the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) system and changes to the socioeconomic landscape, the Service Plan provides a responsive, strategic framework with clear actions to support the sector as it navigates these changes. The Service Plan was developed through comprehensive stakeholder engagement involving families, early years and child care staff, service providers and operators, school boards, and community organizations, including Indigenous leaders in the sector. This ensures that the Service Plan is grounded in the lived realities and insights of Toronto’s diverse families, whose experiences are at the heart of this work.</p> | 22 | 1 | CMMTTEE | EC | All | N | 1753243200000 | … | Report | ACTION | Adopted | Main | Committee | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | ACTION | true | Adopted | — | — | — |
| 141435 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Yonge Street Tragedy Memorial Park Project Plan in Olive Square Park | 2025.EC22.2 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>At its meeting on April 24, 2025, City Council directed the General Manager, Parks and Recreation, in consultation with the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, to develop a plan to redesign Olive Square Park as a permanent memorial to honour and remember the victims of the tragedy that took place on Yonge Street on April 23, 2018.</p>
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<p>The report responds to City Council's direction to recommend a plan to redesign Olive Square Park as a permanent memorial through a design competition including further engagement. Engagement with survivors, affected family members with connections to the tragedy, and the Memorial Steering Committee will be carried out beginning in Fall 2025 which will inform a detailed work plan, scope, and design brief for a design competition proposed to launch in April 2026.</p> | 22 | 2 | CMMTTEE | EC | 18 - Willowdale | N | — | … | Report | ACTION | Adopted | Main | Committee | … |
| 141446 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | AMENDED | N | Highlights of the 2024 Street Needs Assessment and Advancing the City's Shelter Infrastructure | 2025.EC22.3 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>This report provides an overview of the results of the 2024 Street Needs Assessment and Toronto Shelter and Support Services’ (TSSS) shelter infrastructure plan as part of the Council-approved <a href="https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2023/ec/bgrd/backgroundfile-239913.pdf">Homelessness Services Capital Infrastructure Strategy (HSCIS)</a>. It also provides an update on other TSSS shelter development projects, including the Housing and Shelter Infrastructure Development project (HSID) and the George Street Revitalization (GSR) project. </p>
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<p>In October 2024, TSSS conducted its sixth Street Needs Assessment (SNA), working collaboratively with community partners in the homelessness and allied sectors. This report provides key highlights of the main findings of the SNA, which directly inform HSCIS and TSSS’s upcoming Five-Year Strategic Plan. </p>
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<p>The report includes a summary of the City’s progress in the development of new shelters under HSCIS, including an update on new shelter locations confirmed to date. In alignment with HSCIS, this report provides an update on the Council-approved COVID-19 Shelter and Transition Plan, outlining next steps to decommission large shelter programs.</p>
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<p>This report also responds to City Council’s direction in <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2024.EC13.8">EC13.8</a> to explore the use of micro shelters as a rapid shelter program model on vacant or under-utilized City-owned lands. In order to support securing a potential location with a viable operating model, the City will release an Expression of Interest (EOI) for a partner-led micro shelter pilot initiative.</p> | 22 | 3 | CMMTTEE |
| 140714 | LETTER | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | NO_ACTN | N | Micro-Shelters | 2025.EC22.3a | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>City Council on March 26 and 27, 2025, referred Administrative Inquiry IA28.2 from Councillor Chris Moise, Ward 13, Toronto Centre, regarding Micro-Shelters and Answer IA28.2a from the General Manager, Toronto Shelter and Support Services to the Economic and Community Development Committee for consideration.</p> | 22 | 3 | CMMTTEE | EC | All | N | — | … | Letter | ACTION | No Action | Main | Committee | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … |
| 141646 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | NO_ACTN | N | Highlights of the 2024 Street Needs Assessment and Advancing the City's Shelter Infrastructure | 2025.EC22.3b | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>As part of the Council-Approved Homelessness Services Capital Infrastructure Strategy (HSCIS), Toronto Shelter and Support Services (TSSS) is required to submit an annual update.</p>
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<p>The report from the General Manager of Toronto Shelter and Support Services will include an overview of the results of the 2024 Street Needs Assessment and updates on other TSSS shelter development projects, including the Housing and Shelter Infrastructure Development project (HSID, formerly 1000 beds) and the George Street Revitalization (GSR) project, a summary of the City’s progress under HSCIS, an update on the Council-approved COVID-19 Shelter and Transition Plan, outlining next steps to decommission large shelter programs. Lastly the report responds to City Council’s direction in <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2024.EC13.8">EC13.8</a> to explore the use of micro shelters.</p> | 22 | 3 | CMMTTEE | EC | All | N | — | … | Report | ACTION | No Action | Main | Committee |
| 141487 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | AMENDED | N | Updated Coyote Coexistence and Response Strategy | 2025.EC22.4 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>Toronto’s urban wildlife is incredibly diverse, with thousands of unique species calling the city home. In particular, coyotes have lived in Toronto’s communities for many years. Coyotes have adapted well to urban environments and are a consistent feature in many cities across North America. It is normal to see a coyote in residential, commercial, or industrial areas, and in or around parks, trails and ravines.</p>
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<p>The City of Toronto monitors coyote activity and has relied on its existing Coyote Response Strategy to guide its response. The Strategy (last updated in October 2013) prioritizes deterrence and public education to minimize coyote encounters. It focuses on removing open food sources, preventing dog-coyote interactions, and coyote-proofing properties.</p>
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<p>This staff report responds to several Council and Committee directives, notably to update the Coyote Response Strategy and report back on items related to the Downtown Coyote Action Plan, which was received by the Economic and Community Development Committee on May 6, 2025 (2025.EC20.4). The City of Toronto’s updated Coyote Response Strategy, renamed the Coyote Coexistence and Response Strategy (“the Strategy”), is attached to this report as Attachment 1. The updated Strategy organizes best practices for coyote management into a comprehensive operational document to guide City responses and support public participation in wildlife management efforts.</p>
<p><br /> This report recommends City Council’s endorsement of the Strategy and that Council make several requests to the province: to outline detailed criteria for when provincially led redevelopment projects will include coyote and/or wildlife-specific studies, share costs for coyote management (which reiterates a previous request), and review provincial wildlife conflict management regulations. This report also outlines additional actions, including creating a proposed Wildlife Response Team, developing a comprehensive public education campaign in 2026, creating reliable and responsive channels for public updates related to coyote incidents, and clarifying how wildlife management is factored into construction and development projects.</p>
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<p>This report was prepared in consultation with City Planning, Customer Experience (311), Development Review, Environment, Climate and Forestry, Parks and Recreation, Policy, Planning, Finance and Administration, Solid Waste Management, Toronto Building, Toronto Public Health and Transportation Services.</p> |
| 141459 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Rat Response Plan | 2025.EC22.5 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>This report outlines the City's Rat Response Plan that was developed in response to direction from City Council. The Rat Response Plan is the City’s coordinated, proactive and strategic approach to manage rats. Rats can pose significant issues for residents and businesses, and effective management requires action from the City, private property owners, residents, businesses, and construction site managers.</p>
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<p><strong>The guiding principles</strong> of the Plan emphasize integrated pest management (IPM), focusing on environmental changes that minimize the conditions for rats to thrive, holistic urban pest and wildlife management, data-driven approaches, and leveraging and building on current rat response actions.</p>
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<p><strong>The objectives and outcomes</strong> of the Plan focus on reducing access to food, water, and shelter for rats, delivering municipal services that support a clean city, supporting residents and businesses, prioritizing rat response efforts in high-issue neighborhoods, improving coordination across City divisions and stakeholders, embedding rat response within broader urban wildlife and environmental strategies, and continuously monitoring and evaluating the City's approach.</p>
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<p><strong>The Plan's actions</strong> focus on governance and administration, public education, inspection and enforcement, waste management, maintaining a clean public realm, managing rats on municipal property and data collection, monitoring and evaluation.</p> | 22 | 5 | CMMTTEE | EC | All | N | 1753243200000 |
| 141488 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Proposed Licensing Regulations for Animal-Related Businesses | 2025.EC22.6 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>Toronto Municipal Code, Chapter 545, Licensing, requires a variety of businesses to obtain a licence from the City and comply with its regulations for the purpose of public health and safety, consumer protection, and nuisance control.</p>
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<p>Pet shops are currently the only type of business licensed by the City that keep animals on-site, leaving other pet-related businesses, such as kennels or grooming salons, unregulated. This report recommends amendments to Chapter 545, Licensing, Chapter 349, Animals, and Chapter 441, Fees and Charges, to modernize regulations for businesses that house or care for animals for business activities. The proposed changes aim to enhance animal welfare and facility standards, reduce nuisance concerns, improve consumer protection, and establish appropriate oversight at the municipal level.</p>
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<p>This report responds to two directives from City Council to (1) review possible amendments to introduce a new pet establishment business licence class to regulate all businesses for the sale of, grooming, training, daycare or the overnight boarding of animals, as well as review zoning by-law regulations for kennels and pet services in relation to the proposed licence (<a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2022.EC31.5">2022.EC31.5</a>), and (2) develop a plan to license kennels in Toronto (<a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2021.GL27.30">2021.GL27.30</a>). This report also supports the City of Toronto Business Licence and Permit Applications Action Plan: Chapter 545, Licensing (2025 to 2029), which is the Division's roadmap for making the business licensing experience easier for business owners and trade practitioners.</p>
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<p>To improve and modernize regulations for animal-related businesses, this report recommends updating licence definitions and requirements to improve clarity for operators, reduce regulatory gaps, and reflect community input and the current state of pet-related services in Toronto, including:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Introducing a new pet establishment business licence category that captures the full range of services provided by pet-related businesses, including boarding, breeding, training, grooming, daycare, and the sale or adoption of animals. This involves updating licensing definitions and requirements, as well as implementing an activity-based licensing framework to cover the variety of services that can be offered by a single establishment.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Expanding the amusement establishment licence category to include businesses where animals are used for display, education, or entertainment.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- Updating definitions in Chapter 349 to align with the new licensing framework and establish consistency across by-laws.</p>
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<p>The recommendations in this report aim to establish regulations for businesses that care for live animals, set consistent standards for inspections, animal care and facilities, allow the City to maintain animal welfare and protect consumers, and update the licensing framework to better reflect current business practices.</p>
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<p>In addition to the proposed licensing framework for pet establishments, City Planning (CP) is reviewing the zoning requirements related to kennels and pet services to ensure that the proposed licensing amendments align with City-wide Zoning By-law 569-2013. This collaborative approach is essential given the complementary roles of Chapter 545 and the Zoning By-law, and the interconnectedness of licensing and zoning. CP has developed a complementary report with preliminary recommendations related to pet establishments, for consideration by Planning and Housing Committee, and aims to bring a final report in early 2026.</p> |
| 141456 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | AMENDED | N | Business Licence and Permit Applications Action Plan: Chapter 545, Licensing (2025 to 2029) | 2025.EC22.7 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>Municipal Licensing and Standards is continuously optimizing the administration of the Division's business licence and permit services to reduce regulatory burden for business operators and trade practitioners while upholding the City's mandates to mitigate potential community nuisances, protect consumers, and support public health and public safety objectives.</p>
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<p>Examples of business licences issued by Municipal Licensing and Standards include but are not limited to those for eating or drinking establishment operators, building renovators, and motorized refreshment vehicle operators. In addition to business licences, the Division administers business-related permits, including but not limited to permits to display marketing signs and permits to use public-rights-of-way.</p>
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<p>To meet Council directive <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2024.EC14.14">2024.EC14.14</a>, staff have developed the Business Licence and Permit Applications Action Plan: Chapter 545, Licensing (2025 to 2029) ("Action Plan"), which is presented in this report and is Municipal Licensing and Standards' roadmap for completing the remaining work aimed at improving the business licensing and permitting experience for applicants and licence holders.</p>
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<p>This staff report supports and is in alignment with <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.EX22.9">2025.EX22.9</a>, which affirmed the City's commitment to enhancing Toronto’s business environment to drive new investment, employment growth, and economic resilience. Additionally, the report and Action Plan address multiple outstanding Council directives, including reducing burden for local business owners; supporting public health and safety; addressing problematic establishments; reviewing in full Chapter 545, Licensing; and assessing the feasibility of enabling broader community input to Toronto Licensing Tribunal hearings.</p>
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<p>To reduce regulatory burden for businesses and trades, Municipal Licensing and Standards is implementing the following five actions in partnership with other Divisions: 1) simplify Municipal Licensing and Standards' business licence and permit application and renewal requirements; 2) transform the technology that enables Municipal Licensing and Standards' business licence and permit administration and enforcement; 3) optimize interdivisional reviews, issuance, and enforcement of business licences and permits 4) modernize the City of Toronto’s business licensing regulations; and 5) broaden access to and streamline direct supports and information on Municipal Licensing and Standards' business licence and permit services.</p>
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<p>This report was prepared in consultation with Technology Services, Toronto Building, Transportation Services, Economic Development and Culture, Toronto Public Health, Customer Experience (311 Toronto), and City Planning.</p> |
| 141419 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Queen Street West Business Improvement Area Minor Boundary Expansion | 2025.EC22.8 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>The purpose of this report is to recommend a minor expansion of the Queen Street West Business Improvement Area (BIA) boundaries to include the property at 165 John Street, a commercial retail space with offices, adjacent to the boundaries of the Business Improvement Area.</p> | 22 | 8 | CMMTTEE | EC | 10 - Spadina - Fort York | N | 1753243200000 | … | Report | ACTION | Adopted | Main | Committee | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … |
| 141420 | REPORT | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Changes to Business Improvement Area Boards of Management | 2025.EC22.9 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>The purpose of this report is to make changes to the Upper Village and Uptown Yonge Business Improvement Area Boards of Management, in accordance with the requirements of the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 19, Business Improvement Areas. Upper Village and Uptown Yonge Business Improvement Areas fall within two Community Council boundaries.</p> | 22 | 9 | CMMTTEE | EC | 8 - Eglinton - Lawrence, 12 - Toronto - St. Paul's, 15 - Don Valley West | N | 1753243200000 | … | Report | ACTION | Adopted | Main | Committee | … | … | … | … | … | … | … |
| 141421 | LETTER | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | AMENDED | N | Advancing Action on the Impact to Action: Final Report on Anti-Black Racism in Toronto Police Services - Presentation Requests | 2025.EC22.10 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>At its meeting on June 9, 2025, the Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee considered item <a href="https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.CR6.2">CR6.2</a> and made recommendations to Economic and Community Development Committee.</p> | 22 | 10 | CMMTTEE | EC | All | N | — | … | Letter | ACTION | Amended | Main | Committee | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … |
| 141433 | LETTER | N | N | MAIN | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Bloor Street Viaduct Bridge Rehabilitation Work - Safety Measures Needed | 2025.EC22.11 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>As you know last month this Committee approved a motion for Economic Development and Culture to review the lighting on the Luminous Veil to ensure that it functions properly and all sets of lights are operational.</p>
<p><br />This report will come to the September 16th meeting of ECDC.</p>
<p><br />Transportation Services is also currently planning bridge rehabilitation work for the Bloor Viaduct.</p>
<p><br />While there are no changes planned for the Luminous Veil, it would be helpful to understand that it is also functioning as planned from a safety point of view. I am sure that Transportation Services can assist in this review.</p> | 22 | 11 | CMMTTEE | EC | 14 - Toronto - Danforth | N | — | … | Letter | ACTION | Adopted | Main | Committee | … | … | … | … |
| 141698 | LETTER | N | N | NEW | ACTION | ADOPTED | N | Developing Partnerships for Social Medicine / Medically-Supervised Shelter | 2025.EC22.12 | Y | Y | Y | Y | <p>In the <a href="https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/9790-street-needs-assessment-report-2024.pdf">2024 Street Needs Assessment</a>, 26% of all respondents reported an illness or medical condition, and those chronically homeless were more likely to experience multiple health challenges. When asked about the supports needed for health and well-being, 75% of all respondants expressed a need for assistance in accessing general health care or a family doctor.</p>
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<p>We also know that, of those surveyed, those most unable to access a shelter bed were people experiencing homelessness who were currently in a health & treatment facility. People experiencing homelessness discharged from hospital often end up back in the emergency room, straining the resources of local hospitals and creating a situation not conducive to healing for those individuals. This highlights the need for emergency shelter services for those being discharged from hospitals or other health facilities, but who would still benefit from medical supervision or other general health care services.</p>
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<p>Developing partnerships and a model for social medicine / medically-supervised emergency shelter is needed to support and operate future shelter programs focused on illness recovery for people experiencing homelessness. This is also an opportunity to learn lessons from social medicine housing, such as Dunn House operated by Fred Victor & University Health Network, to inform the planning of shelter services.</p> | 22 | 12 | CMMTTEE | EC | 9 - Davenport | N |