City Council to decide whether to add three heritage buildings to Toronto's protected list

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City Council to decide whether to add three heritage buildings to Toronto's protected list

City Council will vote on adding 72 Henry Street, 258 Wallace Avenue, and 80 Ward Street to the Heritage Register. Two of the three buildings sit on sites with pending development applications, including a 45-storey tower at Henry Street that would require heritage review if the listing passes. The listings provide interim demolition protection and would require heritage impact assessments for any future development.

not yet heardToronto City Council · Wed, Jul 29You can weigh inProvince decides

Also in this item

• 72 Henry Street is immediately south of a site under application for a 45-storey mixed-use tower with 545 affordable rental units. The owner of the development site has recently acquired 72 Henry Street. Listing it on the Heritage Register will require a Heritage Impact Assessment for the tower proposal.

• 258 Wallace Avenue and 80 Ward Street are part of a separate Official Plan Amendment application to redesignate the site from Core Employment Areas to Mixed Use Areas. The applications trigger the requirement to list on the heritage register before the prescribed event (deemed-complete notice) under the 2023 amendments to the Ontario Heritage Act.

The journey

Wed, Jul 8 · Toronto and East York Community Council · adopted

Wed, Jul 29 · Toronto City Council · not yet heard

Time to act

You can weigh in

Residents can contact their councillor before the vote, and can depute to council if the item is not moved without debate. The vote is likely within days of this agenda publication.

Why is this story here?

ContainedThree individual property listings on a municipal register, each affecting one address or a small cluster. The listings provide interim demolition protection and trigger heritage review requirements for future development applications on those specific sites. This is a bounded decision affecting the regulatory framework for three properties, not a citywide policy or structural change to how development works. Reversible if Council later chooses to de-list.Touches a narrow groupThe decision affects three specific buildings in two neighborhoods (Kensington-Chinatown, Junction-Wallace). Heritage listing matters directly to owners and residents of those three properties and to people who value the preservation of those specific structures, but does not affect most Toronto residents' daily life in an ordinary week. Commuters and shoppers in those areas may eventually notice if development is altered, but nothing changes their experience today.

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Official title: 72 Henry Street, 258 Wallace Avenue, and 80 Ward Street - Inclusion on the Heritage Register · meeting video