Toronto – The City of Toronto unveiled recommendations to help permit multiplexes in all neighbourhoods to support building new homes for people. A City staff report going before the Planning and Housing Committee on Thursday, April 27, recommends amendments to the City’s Official Plan and city-wide Zoning Bylaw to enable the development of multiplexes – low-rise housing with two, three …
Toronto – Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie (Scarborough-Rouge Park) and Toronto City Councillor Dianne Saxe (University-Rosedale) were at Evergreen Brick Works to announce that 100 per cent of short-term actions in support of the City of Toronto’s ambitious net zero emission targets are now underway, with some complete. The update is one of the key findings within two City reports on …
Toronto – The City of Toronto is reopening its debenture offerings for an additional $350 million conventional bond to help finance critical capital projects. This is the City’s first public debenture issuance this year. This conventional bond issue, which is a reopening of a debenture originally issued in May 2022, has an all-in cost of 4.504 per cent, a coupon …
Toronto – The City of Toronto announced the recipients of its PollinateTO Grants. Through the grants, the City provides funding of up to $5,000 per project for community-led initiatives that create or expand pollinator habitat on public and private lands in Toronto. Forty-four community-led projects, including 11 projects located in Toronto’s Neighbourhood Improvement Areas and Emerging Neighbourhoods, have been selected …
Toronto – The City of Toronto launched its second annual request for proposals (RFP) for the Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition (MURA) program to protect affordable rental housing for Toronto residents. This RFP provides $21.5 million in City funding and incentives to qualified non-profit housing providers, including Indigenous housing providers, cooperatives and community land trusts. Over the past year, the MURA program …
Toronto – The City of Toronto is accelerating this spring’s opening of seasonal park washrooms and has already completed the first early openings. Late last week, City crews began activating seasonal park washrooms. Staff are now in the field daily, accompanying plumbers and technicians who are flushing pipes and activating water infrastructure. As of this morning, 32 of 128 seasonal …
Toronto – The City of Toronto launched its second annual request for proposals (RFP) for the Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition (MURA) program to protect affordable rental housing for Toronto residents. This RFP provides $21.5 million in City funding and incentives to qualified non-profit housing providers, including Indigenous housing providers, cooperatives and community land trusts. Over the past year, the MURA program …
Toronto – The City of Toronto will launch this spring’s second pothole repair blitz today to keep Toronto’s expressways, major roads and neighbourhood streets in a state of good repair. City crews will work a 12-hour shift, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., to repair as many potholes as possible. Outside of concentrated repair blitzes, crews continue to perform proactive …
Toronto – Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie (Scarborough-Rouge Park) announced steps the City of Toronto is taking to balance critical transit construction with the needs of people and businesses who use Toronto’s roads. To prepare for Metrolinx’s construction of an Ontario Line connection to the TTC’s Queen Station beginning this spring, the City is working closely with Metrolinx, contractors and the …
Toronto – This year, April 9 to 15 is 9-1-1 Telecommunicators Week, celebrating the City of Toronto’s dedicated emergency telecommunication professionals who are the first of the first responders and the calm voices answering every 9-1-1 call. City telecommunicators include Police, Fire and Paramedic dispatchers, call takers and administrative, operations support and management staff who have dedicated their careers to …
