Item - 2022.PB35.9

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

1. City Council include the following six properties on the City of Toronto's Heritage Register in accordance with a Listing Statement (Reasons for Inclusion), attached as Attachment 2 to the report, May 24, 2022, from the Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning:

·         1897 Queen Street East

·         1899 Queen Street East

·         1907 Queen Street East

·         2241 Queen Street East (including an entrance at 2239 Queen Street East)

·         2243 Queen Street East (including an entrance at 2235 Queen Street East)

·         2247 Queen Street East (including entrances at 2249 Queen Street East, and 96 and 98 Hammersmith Avenue)

Paul Maka, Planner, Heritage Preservation, Urban Design, City Planning and Adrian Gamble, Planner, Heritage Preservation, Urban Design, City Planning gave a presentation on Inclusion on the City of Toronto's Heritage Register - Queen Street East Properties.

This report recommends that City Council include on the City's Heritage Register six properties located on Queen Street East, west of Woodbine Avenue, in the Beach Neighbourhood. All of the recommended properties meet one or more of the provincial criteria for determining cultural heritage value or interest.

In recent years Heritage Planning has received a number of community heritage nominations for properties in this neighbourhood. Staff have reviewed all of the nominations and identified that two important collections of properties that merited evaluation would be recommended for inclusion on the Register at this time, with the balance of the nominations to be reviewed in a future phase. The recommended six properties are an important part of the Queen Street East streetscape and include a collection of some of the earliest surviving residential buildings in the neighbourhood, along with a collection of single and double-duplex, residential typology buildings according to designs by Price Brothers that are unique to the Beaches area. The properties being recommended for inclusion on the Heritage Register are contained in Recommendation 1 of this report.

All of the recommended properties have been researched and evaluated by staff using the criteria prescribed by the Province in Regulation 9/06 and all of the properties meet one or more of the provincial criteria for determining cultural heritage value or interest for designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act, which the City applies when assessing properties for inclusion on the City's Heritage Register. The remaining outstanding nominations will be processed systematically along Queen Street East as part of the City's Heritage Survey program or on a case by case basis as the need arises.

Properties on the Heritage Register will be conserved and maintained in accordance with the Official Plan Heritage Policies.