Ontario considering order that would kill hundreds of new rental homes
Ontario’s housing minister is considering stepping in to quash a proposed rental development at Toronto’s northern city limits, over concerns raised by a pharmaceutical company.
CBC Toronto first reported in 2022 about Sanofi Pasteur’s opposition to a three-building, highrise project at the corner of Steeles Ave. W. and Dufferin St., neighbouring its sprawling complex. At the time, the company claimed there’s a “national security” risk having hundreds of residents able to look down on its facilities, where vaccine research and development takes place.
Now Vic Fedeli, Ontario’s minister of economic development, job creation and trades, is asking the housing minister to issue a minister’s zoning order (MZO) to limit building heights at the property to 33 metres (or about 10 storeys).
