That the following actions be taken with respect to the 2023 Industrial Land Development Strategy:
a) the 2023 Industrial Land Development Strategy, as appended to the staff report dated May 9, 2023 as Appendix "A", BE ADOPTED as City Council’s strategy for developing municipally-owned industrial land; it being noted that the Strategy is based on continuing the goal of developing and maintaining an ongoing supply of 200 hectares of strategically-located serviced industrial land;
b) the funding requirement of for the above-noted maintenance of an ongoing supply of 200 hectares of serviced industrial land BE CONSIDERED as part of the multi-year budget process;
c) the Civic Administration BE DIRECTED to ensure that the inventory of municipally-owned industrial land are sold to targeted industries including: Advanced Manufacturing, Life and Health Sciences, Information and Digital Media, and Research and Development while prohibiting sales to non-targeted uses, including Warehouses, Transportation and Logistics, Truck Terminals, businesses that store and process data for retrieval, or speculative development to the private sector without verification that the end-user will be a targeted industry;
d) the Civic Administration BE DIRECTED to undertake an Industrial Land Needs Assessment, which shall include the use of the Climate Emergency Screening Tool; and,
e) a communication BE FORWARDED to the London Transit Commission requesting information, including a presentation to the appropriate standing committee, related to developing a sufficient industrial land strategy transit plan following the completion of the first quarter pilot program servicing the area.