Liberty For All Passed in June: What the City's Plan for Liberty Village Actually Includes

Liberty Villiage Rachel Currey July 22, 2026

On June 25, 2026, Toronto city council adopted Liberty For All, the new planning framework for Liberty Village. If you own, rent, or are thinking about buying in the Village, here is the short version: the plan locks in a long-term vision for a denser but better-served neighbourhood, with new streets, parks, community facilities, and affordable housing requirements for new development. The catch is timing. Some of the biggest pieces could take up to a decade.

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What council actually approved

Liberty For All is not a single project. It is an Official Plan Amendment, the culmination of a planning study the City started in 2024 after industrial lands west of Hanna Avenue were redesignated for regeneration. The City's plan sets rules for how the Village grows from here: both residential and non-residential growth, affordable housing required in new condo and purpose-built rental projects, heritage protection for the factory-era buildings, new public streets with wider landscaped sidewalks, new parks and midblock connections, and a deliberate push away from private car use, including fewer parking spaces in new developments.

Alongside the plan itself, council passed a package of motions from the local councillor directing staff to advance a long list of community items. The full decision is on the City's council record.

Liberty New Street

The headline for anyone who has ever crawled along Liberty Street at 5:30 pm. Liberty New Street is a proposed two-lane east-west road running between Dufferin Street and Strachan Avenue, immediately north of the GO rail corridor. It would intersect Mowat, Fraser, Jefferson, Atlantic, Hanna, and Pirandello, finally giving the Village a second way across. The design includes a sidewalk on the north side and a multi-use path for pedestrians and cyclists on the south side. The councillor has said the street's opening is intended to line up with the Ontario Line station at Exhibition, and Metrolinx says it is working with the City on the plans.

Schematic map of the proposed Liberty New Street between Dufferin Street and Strachan Avenue, north of the GO rail corridor in Liberty Village, Toronto

The community wish list

The motions passed with the plan read like a list of everything the Village has been missing. Staff and other bodies were directed to work on: talks with the school boards about a public school, a co-located Canada Post service, a feasibility study for a neighbourhood public library, non-profit childcare, and a community recreation centre, with Lamport Stadium Park lands named as a candidate site and community benefit charges from new development earmarked toward it. Also on the list: bringing back the Liberty Village Farmers' Market, a drainage and landscaping plan for Bill Johnston Park, an arts and culture space strategy, studying a pedestrian-only Atlantic Avenue, more frequent and express service on the 63 Ossington bus, and a renewed push for the province to fund a SmartTrack station at King and Liberty.

Schematic map of Liberty For All community proposals in Liberty Village, including a recreation centre at Lamport Stadium Park, a pedestrian street study for Atlantic Avenue, Bill Johnston Park upgrades, and community services at the Exhibition GO development

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The fine print on timing

Here is the honest part. Council adopting a plan is not shovels in the ground. Staff report back on most items in the first quarter of 2027, and the local councillor has acknowledged some pieces, like the community centre, could take up to ten years. CBC's coverage of the plan captured the neighbourhood's mixed reaction: relief that there is finally a framework, and frustration at the timeline. Our take: judge this plan by what it requires of new development starting now, not by the ribbon cuttings, because every application that comes in from here on has to contribute to this vision.

What it means for owners, buyers, and renters

A few practical takeaways. First, the affordable housing requirement and the push for non-residential space change the math on future projects, which affects how much new supply arrives and when. Second, new buildings will come with less parking, which should make existing deeded spots more valuable over time. We have already written about what a parking spot is worth in the Village. Third, heritage identification for the factory buildings means the loft stock that gives Liberty Village its character is likely to stay. And fourth, if the community pieces land, even slowly, they address the biggest knock on the Village as a long-term place to live. Nobody should buy here counting on a rec centre next year. But the direction is now set in policy, and that matters for values over a ten-year hold.

The bottom line

Liberty For All will not fix the Village's traffic or add a library this year. What it does is bind every new development to a plan that trades height for community benefit, and it puts real projects like Liberty New Street on an official track. If you are making a buy, sell, or hold decision in the Village, this plan belongs in your thinking.