On March 11th, Council referred the Jericho Lands Official Development Plan (ODP) to Public Hearing and instructed staff to prepare the Bylaw. The ODP Bylaw will regulate permitted floor area, land uses, housing tenures, public amenities, and development phasing.  

While the ODP does not regulate building height, the conceptual site plan contains a variety of building forms and heights ranging from 4 to 49 storeys, which can be seen in the figure below: 

Notable items from the plan summary include: 

• Land Use and Density - At full build-out the community will include up to 1,263,481 sq. m. (13,599,996 sq. ft.) of development, of which up to 1,175,000 sq. m (12,647,595 sq. ft.) will be residential use, and a minimum of 46,451 sq. m (499,994 sq. ft.) must be provided for retail, service and office uses; 
• Affordable Housing - Of the residential area, a minimum of 20% is to be used for social housing (~2,600 homes). A minimum of 10% of the residential floor area (~1,300 homes) is to be used for secured market rental housing and below-market rental (BMR) housing, of which a minimum of 25% must be used for BMR housing: 
• The ODP has the flexibility to allow consideration of alternative approaches to affordable housing delivery. For each rezoning, secured market rental housing and/or below-market rental housing may be considered by the City as an alternative to delivering social housing if sufficient senior government and partner funding is not available. 

The Lands will build out over approximately 25 years in four phases/sub-areas, which the sequence of each rezoning phase pf development is expected to generally follow: Watchmens’ Hill Phase; Cedar Heart Plaza, Energy Oval, and Cedar Walk Phase; Canoe Landing Phase; and Canopy Oval Phase: 

More information can be found in the full report by City staff.