Frances Nunziata
Councillor Frances Nunziata's voting record aligns with a Fiscal Conservative and localist, community-preservationist orientation. She consistently supports budget discipline, police, and traditional transit infrastructure. While she often votes with the majority on procedural and infrastructural matters, she frequently dissents on progressive social policies, equity-focused measures, environmental regulations, and specific housing developments or planning frameworks that enable density. Her approach is selective, favoring top-down housing supply tools over neighborhood-level zoning changes, and she shows a pattern of supporting existing fiscal tools while resisting new taxes.
Generally supportive of broad initiatives to increase housing supply in principle. However, she frequently opposes specific enabling policies like the EHON study (Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods), modular housing projects, and measures seen as infringing on local planning control or property rights. This indicates a preference for top-down supply tools over neighborhood-level zoning changes.
Consistently supports transit infrastructure funding and expansion (e.g., LRT extensions, GO updates). Dissent emerges on customer-facing or equity-based operational policies, such as opposing the TTC Money-Back Guarantee, aligning with a focus on capital projects over service guarantees or perceived fare enforcement leniency.
Exhibits a nuanced fiscal conservatism. Supports specific revenue tools like the Vacant Home Tax but has opposed major city budgets (2023, 2025). She also voted against a new tax on luxury-home buyers ('Making life more affordable...'), highlighting a resistance to new tax initiatives despite supporting existing fiscal tools, prioritizing spending restraint or alternative revenue sources.
Notable Votes & Deviations
2025 Operating and Capital Budget
Demonstrates a significant break from the majority on a core fiscal policy, indicating strong dissent on overall budget priorities, spending levels, or tax strategy.
Expanding Toronto Community Crisis Service (police-alternative program)
Shows opposition to community safety programs that reduce police involvement, aligning with a more traditional law-and-order stance. (Note: Specific vote count not in recent data; outcome inferred from broader record.)
Banning fossil fuel advocacy advertising on city assets
Indicates a stance against environmental regulations targeting fossil fuel industries, reflecting a conservative or industry-sympathetic approach to climate policy.
Showing Respect for Transit Customers: Implementing a Toronto Transit Commission Money-Back Guarantee
Dissented on a customer service and accountability measure for the TTC, aligning with a focus on operational control and potentially opposing perceived service guarantees.
Application for Approval to Expropriate a Portion of 20 Humberview Crescent and 50 St. Phillips Road - Stage 1
Voted against a successful expropriation motion, indicating a stance against this use of city power, likely due to property rights or local concerns. This was the only successful vote on this item where she was in the minority.
Review of the Order Paper
Voted in favor of reviewing the order paper, but the motion was defeated. This procedural dissent may reflect a disagreement with the management of the council agenda.
Call to Order
Voted in favor of a call to order motion that failed on a tie, indicating a procedural disagreement with the majority on the conduct of the meeting.
Protecting Playgrounds and Parks: Ensuring Safety for Children and Families
Dissented on a successful motion related to park safety, suggesting opposition to specific measures or language within the motion, despite its broad title.
Driving Efficiencies at Toronto Parking Authority to Reduce 2026 Budget Pressures
Notably voted against her own seconded motion, suggesting the final form of the motion (or specific amendments) did not align with her intended fiscal or operational approach for the TPA.
Towards Implementing a Maximum Indoor Temperature Requirement for Rental Units and Cooling Rooms
Opposition to a progressive housing and public health measure, consistent with a pattern of dissent on renter protections and new regulations on property owners.
Making life more affordable for families by asking luxury-home buyers to chip in more
Voted against implementing a new tax on high-value property transactions, consistent with a fiscally conservative stance resistant to new tax initiatives, despite supporting other revenue tools. This was the only vote on this item where she was in the minority.
199 College Street Community Benefits Charge, College Streetscape
Opposed a community benefits charge for a major development, a rare lone dissent possibly reflecting a strict interpretation of fiscal or planning rules, or opposition to the specific use of funds.
Showing Respect for Transit Customers: Implementing a Toronto Transit Commission Money-Back Guarantee
Voted in favor of a version of the TTC money-back guarantee that was narrowly defeated, highlighting her support for a specific iteration of the policy but opposition to the version that ultimately passed.