Item - 2025.PH22.10

The Planning and Housing Committee recommends that:

1. City Council approve the grant awards for the 2025 Toronto Heritage Grant Program for the following twenty-two heritage properties to assist grant recipients in funding the scope of conservation works generally described in Attachment 1 of the report (May 26, 2025) from the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning.

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 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.

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 Heritage Conservation Districts. 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.

At its meeting on May 27, 2025 the Toronto Preservation Board considered Item PB32.6 and made recommendations to City Council.

Summary from the report (May 14, 2025) from the Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning:

 
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 Heritage Conservation Districts. 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.