Toronto Preservation Board
The full agenda, as filed
All 6 items in the clerk’s order. Each carries the city’s own words: the staff recommendation, what the body decided, and its status. Nothing below is written by us.
PB1.1adopted
This report recommends that the City of Toronto state its intention to designate the property at 127 Strachan Avenue under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act. Constructed in 1878, the property at 127 Strachan Avenue anchors the southeast corner of Strachan Avenue and Adelaide Street West. Designed by celebrated architect David Brash Dick as one of his earliest individual commissions, the building is a representative example of the Second Empire architectural style that was popular in Toronto in the late-19th century. It contributes to the historic character of the surrounding residential neighbourhood by retaining its original scale, form, and massing as a 3-storey building with 1-storey rear wing, and its Second Empire style is reflected in many of its extant original design features. The property was purpose-built as a grocery with apartments above for original proprietor John H. Meyer and it maintained that use for close to 70 years. Since the 1990s it has been operating as a neighbourhood bar and restaurant. Staff have completed the Research and Evaluation Report for the property at 127 Strachan Avenue and determined that the property meets Ontario Regulation 9/06, the criteria prescribed for municipal designation under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act under design and physical, historical and associative, and contextual values. As such, the property is a significant built heritage resource. In June 2019, the More Homes, More Choice Act, 2019 (Bill 108) received Royal Assent. Schedule 11 of this Act included amendments to the Ontario Heritage Act. The Bill 108 Amendments to the Ontario Heritage Act came into force on July 1, 2021, which included a shift in Part IV designations related to certain Planning Act applications. Section 29(1.2) of the Ontario Heritage Act now restricts City Council's ability to give notice of its intention to designate a property under the Act to within 90 days after the City Clerk gives notice of a complete application. Official Plan Amendment, Zoning Amendment, and Site Plan Control applications were submitted to the City in 2021, which propose the retention of the primary structure at 127 Strachan Avenue and demolition of the rear one-storey wing and addition, as well as the demolition of some adjacent low-rise properties at 109-115 Strachan Avenue. A high-rise residential development would be constructed in their place. The City Clerk issued a complete application notice on February 18, 2022. A waiver to extend the 90 day time period in which City Council must make a decision in respect of the submitted applications under the Ontario Heritage Act was received by the City with no deadline. A Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) is required for all development applications that affect listed and designated properties and will be considered when determining how a heritage property is to be conserved. Designation also enables City Council to review proposed alterations or demolitions to the property and enforce heritage property standards and maintenance. An HIA for 109, 111, 115, and 127 Strachan Avenue was prepared by GBCA Architects and submitted to the City in December 2021.
The Toronto Preservation Board recommends that: 1. City Council state its intention to designate the property at 127 Strachan Avenue under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act in accordance with the Statement of Significance; 127 Strachan Avenue (Reasons for Designation) attached as Attachment 3, to the report (November 10, 2022) from the Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning. 2. If there are no objections to the designation, City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the Bill in Council designating the property under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act.
Staff recommendation as filed
The Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning recommends that: 1. City Council state its intention to designate the property at 127 Strachan Avenue under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act in accordance with the Statement of Significance; 127 Strachan Avenue (Reasons for Designation) attached as Attachment 3, to the report, November 10, 2022, from the Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning. 2. If there are no objections to the designation, City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the Bill in Council designating the property under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act.
PB1.2adopted
This report recommends that City Council state its intention to designate the property at 63 Old Forest Hill Road under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act for its cultural heritage value. Originally owned and occupied for nearly twenty years by the daughter of George W. McLaughlin, Canadian auto industry magnate and former Vice President of General Motors Canada, the Dorothy (McLaughlin) Tait House is located on the east side of Old Forest Hill Road near the junction with Dunvegan Road and Browside Avenue in the Forest Hill South neighbourhood. Prominently sited on an oversized deep lot, the grand residence is an excellent representative of an Arts and Crafts movement house with Tudor Revival style details dating to Forest Hill's prolific early era of subdivision and urban development. Completed by 1935, the finely-crafted, two-storey house was designed by the highly-regarded local architect, Douglas. E. Kertland, who helped establish the quintessentially Forest Hill aesthetic of the 1920s-1940s that continues to define the neighbourhood today. Subsequent to the McLaughlin family, the property was owned by the Cara Foods empire heir, Paul D. Phelan and under his care and stewardship for over 30 years until 2021. The subject property at 63 Old Forest Hill Road was added to the City's Inventory of Heritage Properties (now, Heritage Register) in 1975. Staff have completed the Research and Evaluation Report for the property at 63 Old Forest Hill Road and determined that the property meets Ontario Regulation 9/06, the criteria prescribed for municipal designation under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act under all three categories of Design/Physical, Historical/Associative and Contextual value. As such, the property is a significant built heritage resource. On August 19, 2022 the City received a Minor Variance Application proposing to alter the existing two-storey dwelling by constructing a rear two-storey addition, with a new integral garage and new in-ground pool. The application is currently under review and a Committee of Adjustment hearing date has not been scheduled at the time of writing this report. A Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) is required for all development applications that affect listed and designated properties and will be considered when determining how a heritage property is to be conserved. Designation also enables City Council to review proposed alterations or demolitions to the property and enforce heritage property standards and maintenance.
The Toronto Preservation Board recommends that: 1. City Council state its intention to designate the property at 63 Old Forest Hill Road under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act in accordance with the Statement of Significance: 63 Old Forest Hill Road (Reasons for Designation) attached as Attachment 3, to the report (November 20, 2022) from the Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning. 2. If there are no objections to the designation, City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the Bill in Council designating the property under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act.
Staff recommendation as filed
The Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning recommends that: 1. City Council state its intention to designate the property at 63 Old Forest Hill Road under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act in accordance with the Statement of Significance: 63 Old Forest Hill Road (Reasons for Designation) attached as Attachment 3, to the report, November 20, 2022, from the Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning. 2. If there are no objections to the designation, City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the Bill in Council designating the property under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act.
PB1.3adopted
This report recommends that City Council state its intention to designate the property at 94 Isabella Street under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act for its cultural heritage value. The property at 94 Isabella Street comprises a two-and-a-half-storey house-form building located on the north side of Isabella Street, west of Jarvis Street. Designed by Edmund Burke of the prominent architecture firm Langley & Burke, the house was constructed in c.1885 for Helen E. McMaster. The Queen Anne Revival-style residence later served as a private hospital, a rooming house, and a home for Jesuit priests. City Council included the subject property on the City of Toronto's Heritage Register in 1981. Staff have completed the Research and Evaluation Report for the property at 94 Isabella Street and determined that the property meets Ontario Regulation 9/06, the criteria prescribed for municipal designation under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, on the basis of its design/physical, historical/associative, and contextual values. As such, the property is a significant built heritage resource. In May 2022, the City received Rezoning and Site Plan Approval applications for a proposed 69-storey mixed-use building having a gross floor area of 52,797 square metres and 837 dwelling units. The proposed development would incorporate the designated heritage property at 90-92 Isabella Street and the subject property at 94 Isabella Street into the base of the new development. In June 2019, the More Homes, More Choice Act, 2019 (Bill 108) received Royal Assent. Schedule 11 of this Act included amendments to the Ontario Heritage Act. The Bill 108 Amendments to the Ontario Heritage Act came into force on July 1, 2021, which included a shift in Part IV designations related to certain Planning Act applications. Section 29(1.2) of the Ontario Heritage Act now restricts City Council's ability to give notice of its intention to designate a property under the Act to within 90 days after the City Clerk gives notice of a complete application. The City Clerk issued a complete application notice for the Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment on May 26, 2022. The property owner provided a waiver with a deadline of December 31, 2022 to extend the 90-day timeline so that this Notice of Intention to Designate report must be considered by City Council before that date. A Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) is required for all development applications that affect listed and designated properties and will be considered when determining how a heritage property is to be conserved. An HIA for the proposed development at 90a-94 Isabella Street was prepared by GBCA and submitted in May 2022. Designation also enables City Council to review proposed alterations or demolitions to the property and enforce heritage property standards and maintenance.
The Toronto Preservation Board recommends that: 1. City Council state its intention to designate the property at 94 Isabella Street under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act in accordance with the Statement of Significance: 94 Isabella Street (Reasons for Designation) attached as Attachment 3 to the report (November 16, 2022) from the Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning. 2. If there are no objections to the designation, City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the Bill in Council designating the properties under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act.
Staff recommendation as filed
The Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning recommends that: 1. City Council state its intention to designate the property at 94 Isabella Street under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act in accordance with the Statement of Significance: 94 Isabella Street (Reasons for Designation) attached as Attachment 3 to the report, November 16, 2022, from the Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning. 2. If there are no objections to the designation, City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the Bill in Council designating the properties under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act.
PB1.4adopted
This reports recommends that the City of Toronto state its intention to designate the property at 51 Panorama Court under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act for its cultural heritage value and to grant authority to enter into a Heritage Easement Agreement. Located in the City of Toronto, on the south side of Panorama Court, northeast of the intersection of Kipling Avenue and Finch Avenue West, and west of the Humber River and conservation area along Islington Avenue, the property at 51 Panorama Court is the former County Branch of the Hospital for Sick Children (1928-1957) and later the provincially-owned Thistletown Regional Centre for Children and Adolescents (1957-2014). The property is located in Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown, a neighbourhood in north Etobicoke, which in the 19th century, was immediately north of the Town of Thistletown. Known colloquially as "Thistletown", the now 48-acre (originally 98-acre) property is an interrelated complex containing a main hospital building (Main Building) constructed in 1927-1928 to the designs of the renowned architectural partnership of Sproatt & Rolph, as well as landscaped elements, a designed circuitous drive, and associated views. The property was originally designed and completed in 1928 as a rural satellite branch of the Hospital for Sick Children, referred to as its County Branch, and closed in 1957. In 1957, the Government of Ontario purchased the site for use as a new mental healthcare facility for children and youth, and it was repurposed as the Thistletown Regional Centre for Children and Adolescents, effectively extending the property's use as a complex dedicated to children's healthcare with a child-focused approach to care and treatment until it closed in 2014. The surplus property has since remained vacant. Currently, the surplus Thistletown provincial property is being offered for sale to support Government of Ontario initiatives for creating more Long-Term Care Homes (Fixing Long-Term Care Act of 2021). The property will be sold on the open market with the requirement to develop and operate a minimum of 256 long-term care beds and recreational uses, with preference for affordable housing, veterans housing and/or seniors housing on-site. The property at 51 Panorama Court was listed on the City of Toronto's Inventory of Heritage Properties (now the Heritage Register) on May 6, 2014. On August 25, 2014, Amendments to the Reasons for Listing on the City's Inventory of Heritage Properties to include heritage landscape attributes and landmark uses was adopted by City Council. The property has cultural heritage value for its design value and association with the Hospital for Sick Children and Thistletown Regional Centre for its contribution to provincial mental healthcare for children and youth. The Government of Ontario has recognized Thistletown as a "provincial heritage property of provincial significance" and the property is included on the List of Provincial Heritage Properties maintained by the Ministry of Citizenship and Multiculturalism. Upon the transfer of the property out of provincial control and ownership, the Thistletown site will no longer be under provincial protection pursuant to Section B.3 of the Standards and Guidelines for Conservation of Provincial Heritage Properties dated April 28, 2010, prepared pursuant to Section 25.2 of the Ontario Heritage Act. The authority for heritage protection will then reside with City Council and the property may be designated by the City of Toronto under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act. Staff have completed the Research and Evaluation Report for the property at 51 Panorama Court and determined that the property meets Ontario Regulation 9/06, the criteria prescribed for municipal designation under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act under design, associative and contextual values. As such, the property is a significant built heritage resource. In June 2019, the More Homes, More Choice Act, 2019 (Bill 108) received Royal Assent. Schedule 11 of this Act included amendments to the Ontario Heritage Act. The Bill 108 Amendments to the Ontario Heritage Act came into force on July 1, 2021, which included a shift in Part IV designations related to certain Planning Act applications. Section 29(1.2) of the Ontario Heritage Act now restricts City Council's ability to give notice of its intention to designate a property under the Act to within 90 days after the City Clerk gives notice of a complete application. There is currently no planning application for the development of 51 Panorama Court. The future redevelopment of the lands will require a number of planning applications including a Plan of Subdivision (to create public roads), Site Plan Control, and a Plan of Condominium (depending on proposed tenure for the proposed uses). The property contains TRCA regulated lands and is subject to the City of Toronto's Ravine and Natural Feature Protection By-law. A Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) is required for all development applications that affect listed and designated properties and will be considered when determining how a heritage property is to be conserved. Designation also enables City Council to review proposed alterations or demolitions to the property and enforce heritage property standards and maintenance.
The Toronto Preservation Board recommends that: 1. City Council state its intention to designate the property at 51 Panorama Court (the "Property") under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act in accordance with the Statement of Significance: 51 Panorama Court (Reasons for Designation) attached as Attachment 3, to the report (November 30, 2022) from the Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning, to be effective upon the transfer of the Property by the provincial government and that notice of intention to designate be served on the new owner following the transfer of the Property. 2. If there are no objections to the designation, City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the Bill in Council designating the property under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act. 3. City Council authorize the entering into of a Heritage Easement Agreement under Section 37 of the Ontario Heritage Act with the owner of 51 Panorama Court in a form and content satisfactory to the City Solicitor and the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning. 4. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the necessary Bill in Council authorizing the entering into of a Heritage Easement Agreement for the property at 51 Panorama Court.
Staff recommendation as filed
The Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning recommends that: 1. City Council state its intention to designate the property at 51 Panorama Court (the "Property") under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act in accordance with the Statement of Significance: 51 Panorama Court (Reasons for Designation) attached as Attachment 3, to the report, November 30, 2022, from the Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning, to be effective upon the transfer of the Property by the provincial government and that notice of intention to designate be served on the new owner following the transfer of the Property. 2. If there are no objections to the designation, City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the Bill in Council designating the property under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act. 3. City Council authorize the entering into of a Heritage Easement Agreement under Section 37 of the Ontario Heritage Act with the owner of 51 Panorama Court in a form and content satisfactory to the City Solicitor and the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning Division. 4. City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the necessary Bill in Council authorizing the entering into of a Heritage Easement Agreement for the property at 51 Panorama Court.
PB1.5received
Preservation Panel Minutes
The Toronto Preservation Board received the following Minutes, for information: 1. North York Community Preservation Panel from the meeting held on July 25, 2022. 2. North York Community Preservation Panel from the meeting held on September 26, 2022.
PB1.6received
2023 Meeting Schedule for the Toronto Preservation Board
The Chair has scheduled the meetings for 2023 listed in Attachment 1.
The Toronto Preservation Board approved the following meeting dates for 2023: January 6, 2023 February 15, 2023 March 23, 2023 April 24, 2023 May 23, 2023 June 12, 2023 July 13, 2023 August 29, 2023 September 12, 2023 October 10, 2023 November 6, 2023 December 7, 2023