On June 29, 2020, City Council approved a work plan (Item PH14.4) for the Growth Plan Conformity and Municipal Comprehensive Review of the Toronto Official Plan. Council established August 4, 2020 as the commencement of the City’s Municipal Comprehensive Review (MCR). Attachment 5 of the report lists the work plan components.

A Place to Grow: Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (Growth Plan (2019)) came into effect on May 16, 2019. The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing has established a deadline of July 1, 2022 for municipalities to update their Official Plans to achieve conformity with the Growth Plan (2019). This provincially legislated requirement is satisfied through a Growth Plan Conformity exercise and MCR.

The City of Toronto’s upcoming Growth Plan Conformity and MCR present an opportunity to address, through planning policy, a number of the growth related challenges facing Toronto today and in the future. These challenges include: housing affordability, climate change, mobility, public health and others that will help inform the City’s response to, and recovery from, the current global pandemic.