Item - 2025.PB32.6

The Toronto Preservation Board recommends that:

1. City Council approve the grant awards for the 2025 Toronto Heritage Grant Program for the following 22 heritage properties to assist grant recipients in funding the scope of conservation works generally described in Attachment 1 of this report.

• 7 Alpha Avenue
• 9 Alpha Avenue
• 10 Alpha Avenue
• 11 Alpha Avenue
• 13 Alpha Avenue
• 16 Alpha Avenue
• 17 Alpha Avenue
• 18 Alpha Avenue
• 72 Amelia Street
• 74 Amelia Street
• 76 Amelia Street
• 35 Bishop Street
• 395 Carlton Street
• 417 Dundas Street East
• 11 Laurier Avenue
• 22 Lytton Boulevard
• 726 Meadowvale Road
• 332 Seaton Street
• 306 Wellesley Street East
• 385 Brunswick Avenue
• 2867 Kennedy Road
• 51 Tiverton Avenue
  
  

2. City Council direct that the use of the grant awards outlined in Recommendation 1 above be limited to only the conservation work approved by the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning, and that the issuing of the grant awards be subject to the grant recipient satisfying all conditions as set out in the Letter of Understanding between the City and the grant recipient.

Meredith Holland, Assistant Planner, Development Review, Urban Design, City Planning gave a presentation on 2025 Toronto Heritage Grant Awards. 

This report recommends the approval of twenty-two grants totalling $317,000.00 under the Toronto Heritage Grant Program. The recommended recipients will generate approximately $660,225.61 in private investment for work to conserve irreplaceable cultural heritage resources that contribute to the City's social and economic prosperity by maintaining Toronto's unique sense of place.

The Toronto Heritage Grant Program provides matching grant funds for eligible restoration-based conservation work for heritage properties within the City of Toronto that are designated under Part IV or V of the Ontario Heritage Act (OHA). Applicants may receive a grant once every five years for up to 50% of the cost of eligible conservation work. Owners of house form buildings may receive up to $10,000.00 or, if replacing an entire cedar or slate roof assembly, up to $20,000.00 every ten years.

Owners of non-house form buildings and any tax-exempt or not-for-profit properties (including house form buildings) may be eligible for a grant equivalent to 50% of the cost of eligible work, with no maximum limit.   

The Toronto Heritage Grant Program has a budget of $317,000.00 in the City Planning 2025 Operating Budget and is administered by Heritage Planning, City Planning.

The properties that have been recommended for a grant award vary in size and location across Toronto. Several grant projects are at residential properties located in Heritage Conservation Districts (HCDs), including properties located within the Cabbagetown North, Cabbagetown Southwest, and Riverdale HCDs. In addition, there are a few notable Part IV-designated properties benefitting from heritage grants this year, including two community submissions of eight contiguous properties along Alpha Avenue and three properties on Amelia Street.