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PDF of newsletter is available here: July 5, 2013 Following message is from Councillor Grimes’ Office: Feeling Congested – Transportation and Congestion Study Starts Phase 2 Phase 2: Making Sound Decisions www.feelingcongested.ca In early June, the City of Toronto officially kicked off Phase 2 of the “Feeling Congested” transportation public consultation campaign, which focuses […]
In their article about church reconversions in Toronto, Jason Hackwork and Erin Gullikson (2013) describe the Bethel Green Seniors Residence as a church conversion involving mixed function and form. In such a form of church redevelopment, a building is constructed around all of part of a congregation’s initial place of worship, and a new church, or […]
Updates: The following July 8, 2013 post focuses upon the Wesley Mimico redevelopment, which features a church/congregation in the role of developer of a heritage-listed property: The outcome of the Wesley Mimico redevelopment story will depend upon negotiations related to the Ontario Heritage Act Two more recent posts discuss details of the Hackworth and Gullikson […]
Below is a letter from David Godley of Long Branch to Lynda Tanaka, executive director of the Ontario Municipal Board, as well as a letter to the Official Plan Review team. David Godley has requested that people send an email to Lynda Tanaka at ontario.municipal.board@ontario.ca asking for a copy of her reply to this letter. […]
I’m very pleased to share with you the following message from Terry Smith of Friends of Sam Smith Park: April 12, 2013 Hi Jaan http://fourthstreetlakewindow.blogspot.ca/ Here’s a link to a blog/website I have been working on for a couple of years. It originally started with the unassumed public road allowance at the bottom of Fourth, […]
A City of Toronto By-Law was enacted on April 24, 2007 to designate 21 Swanwick as a heritage property under the Ontario Heritage Act. The bylaw notes that: “Emmanuel Presbyterian Church is an institution that contributed to the historical evolution of the East Toronto community. The development of the site dates to 1888 when a small […]
In a previous blog post I’ve shared information about a church-to-condo conversion at 152 Annette Street in Toronto. In this blog post, part of a series of posts connected with the Wesley Mimico church-to-seniors-residence proposal, I will focus on a church-to-condo conversion highlighted in a March 28, 2013 Toronto Star article. [To access the article, click on the […]
The following information is based on the email indicated below. To access the links, cut and paste the URLs. I owe thanks to David Juliusson for sharing this information with me. From: Toronto Official Plan Review [OFFICIAL-PLAN-REVIEW@LISTS.TORONTO.CA] on behalf of Official Plan Review [opreview@TORONTO.CA] Sent: March 1, 2013 11:53 AM To: OFFICIAL-PLAN-REVIEW@LISTS.TORONTO.CA Subject: Update No. 24 […]
The Built Heritage Newsletter for Jan. 22, 2013 can be found here. Among the many interesting items is this one: 3. Toronto: City-Wide Tall Building Design Guidelines include Heritage Geoff Kettel Chair North York Community Preservation Panel The city is close to finalizing draft updated City-Wide Tall Building Design Guidelines. The updated Guidelines will be […]
This blog post presents the key parts of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) decision regarding 168 Lake Promenade. Of relevance with regard to the OMB is this earlier blog post highlighting a letter from Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Laurel Broten in which she refers to provincial legislation introduced in 2007 regarding the appeals process. Purpose and layout […]