2022 Toronto Heritage Grant Awards

Applicants may receive a grant once every five years for up to 50% of the cost of eligible conservation work. Owners of house form buildings may receive up to $10,000.00 or if replacing an entire cedar or slate roof assembly, up to $20,000.00 every ten years. Owners of non-house form buildings and any tax-exempt properties including house form buildings may be eligible for a grant equivalent to 50% of the cost of eligible conservation work, with no maximum limit. The Toronto Heritage Grant Program has a budget of $317,000.00 in the City Planning 2022 Operating Budget and is administered by Heritage Planning, City Planning. The properties that have been recommended for a grant award vary in size and location across Toronto. The majority of the grant recipients are residential properties located in Heritage Conservation Districts (HCDs), including properties located within the Blythwood Road, Cabbagetown South and Cabbagetown North, South Rosedale and Madison Avenue (West Annex) HCDs. In addition, there are a few notable Part IV-designated properties benefitting from heritage grants this year, including the Paul Kane house, St. John's Cemetery on the Humber (Denison Family Burial Grounds) in Weston, and the recently designated Spadina Gardens Apartments located in the Annex. Due to the high demand for funding assistance which far exceeded the program budget, both relating to the volume of applications and the large scale of restoration projects, four applications are not being recommended for a grant award. These owners may wish to apply to the 2023 Grant Program should they consider deferring all or a portion of their project relating to the eligible conservation work e.g. stained glass. Heritage Planning staff will offer to assist owners should they wish to reapply in November for the 2023 program.

City Council direct that the use of the grant awards outlined in Recommendation 1 of this report be limited to only the conservation work approved by the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, and that the issuing of the grant award be subject to the grant recipient satisfying all conditions as set out in the Letter of Understanding between the City and the grant recipient.