Item - 2020.PB19.9

The Toronto Preservation Board recommends to the Toronto and East York Community Council that:

1. City Council include the following 38 properties on the City of Toronto's Heritage Register:

 45 Ossington Avenue

         47 Ossington Avenue

         49 Ossington Avenue

         51 Ossington Avenue

         53 Ossington Avenue

         55 Ossington Avenue

         57 Ossington Avenue

         59 Ossington Avenue

         61 Ossington Avenue

         129 Ossington Avenue

         130 Ossington Avenue

         132 Ossington Avenue

         134 Ossington Avenue

         135 Ossington Avenue

         136 Ossington Avenue

         138 Ossington Avenue

         148 Ossington Avenue

         154 Ossington Avenue

         199 Ossington Avenue

         201 Ossington Avenue

         203 Ossington Avenue

         205 Ossington Avenue

         207 Ossington Avenue

         209 Ossington Avenue

         210 Ossington Avenue

         211 Ossington Avenue

         213 Ossington Avenue

         214 Ossington Avenue

         215 Ossington Avenue

         216 Ossington Avenue

         217 Ossington Avenue

         218 Ossington Avenue

         219 Ossington Avenue

         220 Ossington Avenue

         221 Ossington Avenue

         222 Ossington Avenue

         223 Ossington Avenue

         224 Ossington Avenue

Alex Corey, Planner, Heritage Preservation, Urban Design, City Planning gave a presentation on Inclusion on the City of Toronto's Heritage Register - Ossington Avenue Properties.

This report recommends that City Council include 38 properties with cultural heritage value on the City of Toronto's Heritage Register. The majority of these properties were identified through the Ossington Avenue Planning Study, completed and adopted by City Council in 2013, and which came into force following a decision from the Ontario Municipal Board in 2014. The remaining properties were identified by Staff when refining the Ossington Avenue Historic Context Statement. Many of these properties were nominated to Toronto and East York Community Council in 2015 for heritage evaluation to determine whether they merit inclusion on the Heritage Register.

Ossington Avenue, between Queen Street West and Dundas Street West, is an historic main street that was previously part of the Dundas Street highway and a major arterial road heading westward from the Town of York and, later, City of Toronto. Its present-day context is defined by a prevalence of main street commercial row and block building types, with institutional uses at its southern point and an evolving contemporary urban character.

All of these properties meet Ontario Regulation 9/06, the provincial criteria prescribed for municipal designation, which the City also applies when assessing properties for its Heritage Register. The listing of non-designated properties with cultural heritage value on the Heritage Register will extend interim protection from demolition, should a development or demolition application be submitted. Heritage Impact Assessments (HIA) are required for development applications that affect listed and designated properties.

Listing provides an opportunity for City Council to determine whether the property warrants conservation through designation under the Ontario Heritage Act.