Public Notice

The proposed amendment seeks to:

1.   Add an area-specific amendment to the Sign By-law for the premises municipally known as 55 Beverly Hills Drive to amend the Sign By-law to:

• Modify the general provision that every sign permit issued by the Chief Building Official for the erection or display of a third party sign shall expire five years from the date of issuance and is null and void on its expiry date, to require that the initial permit issued by Chief Building Official for the erection or display of the third party sign described below would expire 10 years from the date of issuance; and, 
• Allow the premises municipally known as 55 Beverly Hills Drive to contain one third party electronic ground sign containing two sign faces in a "v-shaped" configuration, measuring 14.63 metres horizontally by 4.27 metres vertically, containing electronic static copy along the southerly portion of the property and, with a total sign face area of approximately 62.5 square metres; and, a height (highest point of the sign measured from grade) of 13.8 metres (Proposed Sign); and,
• Allow the premises municipally known as 55 Beverly Hills Drive to contain first party signs, in accordance with Section 694-21(I) of the Sign By-law.

The Chief Building Official and Executive Director, Toronto Building, is recommending that the Council of the City of Toronto refuse the area-specific amendment to the Sign By-law for 55 Beverly Hills Drive.

The Planning and Housing Committee may recommend that the Council of the City of Toronto amend the Sign By-law to amend Schedule B, Signage Master Plans and Area Specific Amendments, to add a new area specific amendment to Schedule B, Signage Master Plans and Area Specific Amendments, to allow the specific premises to contain, one third party electronic ground sign and first party signs, in accordance with Section 694-21(I) of the Sign Bylaw.

At its meeting to be held by video conference and in person in Committee Room 1, Toronto City Hall, on May 31, 2022 commencing at 9:30 a.m., or as soon as possible thereafter, the Planning and Housing Committee of Toronto City Council will hear in person/video conference or by his or her counsel, agent or solicitor, any person who wishes to speak to the matter.

To obtain or view a copy of the report outlining the proposed amendments, you may view the Planning and Housing Committee agenda at http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/decisionBodyProfile.do?function=doPrepare&decisionBodyId=1943#Meeting-2022.PH34, as of May 24, 2022. 

To submit comments or make a presentation to the Planning and Housing Committee, please contact the Committee no later than 12:00 p.m. on May 30, 2022:

Nancy Martins, Administrator, Planning and Housing Committee,

Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West,

10th Floor, Toronto, ON M5H 2N2,

Tel: 416‑397-4579,

E-mail phc@toronto.ca, by no later than 12:00 p.m. on May 30, 2022.

To ask questions regarding the content of the report, contact:

Ted Van Vliet

Manager, Sign By-law Unit, Toronto Building

100 Queen Street West, Ground Floor, East Tower

Toronto ON M5H 2N2

Telephone: 416-392-4235

Email: Ted.VanVliet@toronto.ca

Any comments received after the Committee meeting will be processed to Council.

If this matter is deferred at the Committee meeting or Council meeting or considered at a subsequent Committee or Council meeting, no additional notice will be provided other than the information on the subsequent Committee or Council agenda.  Please contact the above City officials if you require notice in these cases.

The Planning and Housing Committee will make its final recommendations on May 31, 2022 which will be forwarded to City Council for its meeting on June 15-16, 2022.

Notice to people writing or making presentations to the Planning and Housing Committee: The City of Toronto Act, 2006 and the City of Toronto Municipal Code authorize the City of Toronto to collect any personal information in your communication or presentation to City Council or its Committees.

The City collects this information to enable it to make informed decisions on the relevant issue(s). If you are submitting letters, faxes, e-mails, presentations, or other communications to the City, you should be aware that your name and the fact that you communicated with the City will become part of the public record and will appear on the City’s website. The City will also make your communication and any personal information in it - such as your postal address, telephone number, or e-mail address - available to the public, unless you expressly request the City to remove it.

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To consider a proposal to name a public lane located west of Rusholme Road, extending south of Rusholme Park Crescent, as "Tony Oliveira Lane".

At its meeting to be held by video conference and in person in the Council Chamber, Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West, on May 26, 2022, at 9:30 a.m., or shortly afterwards, the Toronto and East York Community Council will hear in person or by his or her counsel, agent or solicitor, any person who claims that his or her lands will be prejudicially affected by the naming and who applies to be heard with respect to the proposed naming.

To obtain additional information, submit comments or to address the Toronto and East York Community Council meeting on May 26, 2022, please contact the following City official no later than 12:00 p.m. on May 25, 2022.

            Ellen Devlin

            Administrator, Toronto and East York Community Council

            City Clerk’s Office

            Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West

            2nd floor, West Tower

            Toronto, Ontario M5H 2N2

            Telephone: 416-392-7033; Fax: 416-397-0111

            E-mail: teycc@toronto.ca

Notice to People Writing or Making Presentations to the Toronto and East York Community Council: The City of Toronto Act, 2006 and the City of Toronto Municipal Code authorize the City of Toronto to collect any personal information in your communication or presentation to City Council or its Committees and Boards. The City collects this information to enable it to make informed decisions on the relevant issue(s). If you are submitting letters, faxes, e-mails, presentations or other communications to the City, you should be aware that your name and the fact that you communicated with the City will become part of the public record and will appear on the City’s website. The City will also make your communication and any personal information in it - such as your postal address, telephone number or e-mail address - available to the public, unless you expressly request the City to remove it.

Many Committee, Board, and Advisory Body meetings are broadcast live over the internet for the public to view. If you speak at the meeting you will appear in the video broadcast. Video broadcasts are archived and continue to be publicly available.

TAKE NOTICE that Council for the City of Toronto intends to designate the property, including the lands, buildings and structures thereon known municipally as 221 Sterling Road, including entrances at 225 and 227 Sterling Road, under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.O.18, as amended, as a property of cultural heritage value or interest.

Reasons for Designation

The property at 221 Sterling Road is worthy of designation under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act for its cultural heritage value, and meets Ontario Regulation 9/06, the provincial criteria prescribed for municipal designation, under the categories of design/physical value, historical/associative value, and contextual value.

Description

The property at 221 Sterling Road comprises a complex of adjoining one- and two-storey brick structures, constructed incrementally in c.1914-1918, c.1924-1939, and c.1954-1965. Located on the east side of Sterling Road, the property is set back at an angle from the street, oriented instead in parallel with the railway tracks to the east. The complex runs generally north-south on an irregularly shaped lot, which is defined by Merchant Lane to the north, and alleyways to the east and south. Because the building evolved in an unplanned way through a series of additions to suit the requirements of various occupants, boundaries between the building's components are not always legible within the building's flexible interior spaces. Typical of industrial architecture, its exterior is generally utilitarian in nature and relatively unadorned. The property features multiple entrances, on all elevations, and its unique footprint creates exterior opportunities for social connection, particularly in the eastern alleyway, where communal spaces are bordered by a retaining wall.

Statement of Cultural Heritage Value

The property at 221 Sterling Road is a rare and unique example of a former industrial complex that evolved to accommodate various manufacturing uses, and later gained prominence for its adaptive reuse as an incubator of arts and culture. Originally part of a site developed alongside the Grand Trunk Railway tracks for the Fairbanks-Morse Canadian Manufacturing Company Ltd., the property was constructed incrementally with an original portion from pre-World War I, interwar additions in c.1924-1939, and postwar additions in c.1954-1965. It served a variety of industrial uses through the mid- to late-twentieth century, and has since continued to evolve as a hub of cultural activities, housing a number of creative organizations and performance spaces. The property's gradual construction and adaptation produced an unusual, rambling complex with an interior that allows for reconfiguration to suit tenants' needs, and an exterior that creates moments of social connection. The building's physical value is expressed through industrial characteristics that facilitate adaptive reuse for live-work studios and light industrial cultural businesses.

The property reflects the history of industrial development along Sterling Road within the lower Junction Triangle and Brockton Village areas, and contributes to a concentration of former industrial buildings, many of which now have cultural functions. It originated as part of lands developed by the Fairbanks-Morse Canadian Manufacturing Company Ltd. adjacent to the Grand Trunk Railway line. This company played an important role in the industrial development of the area through their development of a large manufacturing complex, including the subject property. Needs arising from Canada's involvement in the First World War meant that by the late 1910s, the Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Company, like other plants in Toronto, received a munitions contract and manufactured explosive shells during this period. In addition to the theme of industrial development, the property reflects the theme of promotion of arts and culture through adaptive reuse of industrial buildings; this theme is especially significant to the local community. Few such examples of formerly industrial, live-work complexes remain extant in Toronto.

The property is important in maintaining and supporting the character of Sterling Road as a former industrial streetscape, which has evolved as an area known for supporting arts and culture. In particular, it is linked to the adjacent property at 213 Sterling Road, which was also associated with the Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Company, and with which it stands in architectural dialogue. The only building of its kind on Sterling Road that continues to house a live-work community, 221 Sterling Road relates to surrounding industrial properties on Sterling Road that have been adaptively reused for the purposes of arts and culture.

Heritage Attributes

Design and Physical Value

The following heritage attributes contribute to the cultural heritage value of the property at 221 Sterling Road as an evolved manufacturing complex that has been adaptively reused to support the arts:

·         Scale, form, and massing of the property's original portion (dating to c.1914-1918), located at the building's southwest corner

·         Scale, form, and massing of the property's early eastern and northern additions (dating to c.1924-1939)

·         Throughout the complex, features that represent the property's industrial origins and later facilitated its adaptive reuse, including:

·         An industrial material palette with primarily red brick and concrete on both the exterior and interior

·         Original window openings and operable windows

·         Original door openings, including some that include double doors and some that include garage doors

·         18'-to-20' ceilings in many units, some of which include exposed structural beams

Historic and Associative Value

The following heritage attributes contribute to the cultural heritage value of the property at 221 Sterling Road as reflecting the history of industrial development and arts-related adaptive reuse along Sterling Road:

·         The property's siting and orientation, accessed via Sterling Road but situated in parallel with the railway tracks to the east

·         Original window openings and operable windows

·         Original door openings, including some that include double doors and some that include garage doors

·         An industrial material palette with primarily red brick and concrete on both the exterior and interior

·         18'-to-20' ceilings in many units, some of which include exposed structural beams

·         Generally large-scale interior spaces with flexible configurations

·         Skylights in many hallways and units, some of which are original

·         Exterior communal spaces as points of connection, including in the eastern (rear) alley, which is set apart by a grade change and a retaining wall

·         Original rail lines that remain visible in the floors and hallways of units

Contextual Value

The following heritage attribute contributes to the cultural heritage value of the property at 221 Sterling Road as one of a concentration of former industrial buildings, many of which now have cultural functions:

·         The property's siting and orientation, accessed via Sterling Road but situated in parallel with the railway tracks to the east

·         The property's visual and spatial relationships to the adjacent property at 213 Sterling Road, particularly via visibility and public access to the alleyway formed between the north elevation of 213 Sterling Road and the south elevation of 221 Sterling Road

Notice of Objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate

Notice of an objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property may be served on the City Clerk, Attention: Administrator, Secretariat, City Clerk's Office, Toronto City Hall, 2nd Floor West, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2N2.; Email: hertpb@toronto.ca within thirty days of May 17, 2022, which is June 16, 2022. The notice of objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property must set out the reason(s) for the objection and all relevant facts.

Getting Additional Information:

Further information in respect of the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property is available from the City of Toronto at:

http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2022.PH33.17

TAKE NOTICE that Council for the City of Toronto intends to designate the property, including the lands, buildings and structures thereon known municipally as 50 Merton Street under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.O.18, as amended, as a property of cultural heritage value or interest.

Reasons for Designation

The property at 50 Merton Street (Girl Guides of Canada Headquarters) is worthy of designation under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act for its cultural heritage value, and meets Ontario Regulation 9/06, the provincial criteria prescribed for municipal designation under all three categories of design, associative and contextual value. 

Description

The property at 50 Merton Street contains the Girl Guides of Canada Headquarters,

a three-storey complex completed in 1962 to the design of Carmen Corneil, project architect for William J. McBain & Associates and extended in 1970-72 by the partnership of Elin and Carmen Corneil.

In 2011, the National Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada recognized the national significance of the Girl Guides of Canada through its designation of the Girl Guide of Canada Movement in Canada a National Historic Event and installed a plaque at 50 Merton Street. 

Both the Midtown in Focus Cultural Heritage Resource Assessment (2016) and the City of Toronto OPA 405 identified the property as having potential cultural heritage value.

Statement of Cultural Heritage Value - Girl Guides of Canada National Headquarters

The Girl Guides of Canada National Headquarters building, dating to 1961-2 with a 1970-72 extension is in its meticulous design an excellent representative of Post-War Modern architecture exhibiting in particular the influence of the great Finnish modernist, Alvar Aalto.  It has also been acknowledged that on its completion the new headquarters was "a building of consequence… representing something new and other, a different kind of architecture"[1] in Toronto.  The building design is significant for its response to context, for its interpretation of the functional programmatic requirements as an opportunity for symbolic design and for creating a sequence of indoor and outdoor spaces which enrich the use and experience of Guides' members of all ages.  In its interpretation of the brief, orientation on the site, composition and massing of the various programmatic components, in the choice of materials and in the details from the window openings to the handrails, columns and door pulls the building exhibits a high degree of craftsmanship and artistic merit. 

The property at 50 Merton Street has association with the Girl Guides of Canada and in turn with the International Guiding Movement which is one of the largest youth movements in the world. The Guides were established in England in 1909 by Lord Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes Baden-Powell shortly after the founding of the Boy Scouts in 1907. Canadian branches followed in 1910, the first in St. Catharines, Ontario and then Toronto. The core values of the organization emphasized the outdoors, character building, good citizenship and self-reliance with the motto: "Be Prepared." Since 1923, the guides have been largely self-funded through the sales of their iconic, trefoil-shaped cookies. Completed in 1962, the building was designed to be the first permanent, purpose-built national headquarters for the Girl Guides.  Girl Guides are located across Canada and celebrated their centenary in 2010.  The National Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada recognized the national significance of the organization through its designation of the Girl Guide of Canada Movement in Canada a National Historic Event.

The Girl Guides of Canada Headquarters has associative value as it reflects the work and ideas of Carmen Corneil, lead designer and project architect for William J. McBain & Associates who designed the original building in 1961-62 and the partnership of Elin and Carmen Corneil, for the addition undertaken in 1970-72. Throughout their 50+years of practice, Elin and Carmen Corneil have been influential as teachers and practitioners from their home-bases in Norway and Canada. Their work, which has included both architecture and urban design, has been recognized with two Massey Medals, won an international competition and has been published and exhibited widely. First living and working together in Toronto in 1960, their projects introduced a strong Scandinavian formal and typological influence which was based in expressive programmatic form, tactile materials and details, a variety of sources for daylight and the integration of landscape and nature. As their ideas and work evolved, these initial principles would be extended to eschew the formal aesthetic concerns of Modernism for an architecture that was underpinned by familiar building typologies related to a variety of individual and collective social experiences, with a frank tectonic expression inherent in Dutch Structuralism and particularly the work of Herman Hertzberger. Throughout their careers a primary commitment to architecture's enhancement of human experience through meaningful and connected place-making has been at the heart of their practice. 

Set on the north side of Merton Street in the first block east of Yonge Street, the Girl Guides Headquarters, maintains and supports the character of the area which is related to its transformation following the completion of the Yonge Street subway line in 1954 making it a prime location for institutional uses such as the Visiting Home Nursing Association, The War Amps, the Geneva Centre for Autism and to the north of Davisville Avenue, the School for the Deaf (demolished).  Its distinctive Post-War Modern design, low-rise scale and public outdoor space is shared with these other institutional buildings.  Other low-rise buildings representing commercial and residential uses, with distinctive mid-century modern style maintain this character of Merton Street which is under transformation.

Completed in 1962, the Girl Guides of Canada Headquarters is physically, functionally, visually and historically linked to its surroundings as it represents the transformation of Merton Street and the Davisville community following the completion of the subway line in 1954 with an increased institutional use, transforming the street's early mixed character of industrial and residential properties with a sequence of low-rise, Post-War Modern properties. 

Heritage Attributes of the Girl Guides of Canada National Headquarters

Design and Physical Value

The following heritage attributes contribute to the design and physical value of the

Girl Guides Headquarters at 50 Merton Street as an excellent representative of Post-War Modern architecture exhibiting in particular the influence of the great Finnish modernist, Alvar Aalto and as an example of the work of the partnership of Elin and Carmen Corneil as it responded to the project program and its Toronto context: 

Exterior

·         The setback, placement and orientation of the building on its property on the north side of Merton Street, east of Yonge Street

·         The scale, form and massing of the flat-roofed, building composed of a two-storey front wing and a rear, three-storey back wing set on a raised podium with a terrace on its south and west sides.

·         The massing of the front wing is modified by the higher roof for the clerestory and services and by the set-back of the first floor on the south, east and west sides, the staircase on the south side of the podium at the west end and on the east side where the podium has been set-back adjacent to the loading bay

·         The massing of the rear, three-storey wing includes the stepped massing in plan at its south-west corner and the two-projecting fire-escape stairs

·         The first floor level of the front wing of the building including the glazed south and west walls

·         The brick cladding, on the second-floor of the front wing of the building and the staircase on the north side of the rear wing, which achieved its rugged texture through a special process of firing the bricks face to face and then splitting them apart to achieve the natural broken surface, and then set in a common bond pattern

·         The concrete cladding of the podium and its parapet-balustrade

·         The cladding of the rear second wing which combine sections of curtain wall glazing with pre-cast concrete panels and brick cladding with bands of concrete indicating the floor levels on the east and west elevations

·         The composition and detailing of the fenestration of the front brick clad wing as follows:

 - second floor level, south elevation, long ribbon window stretching the full width of the elevation and originally containing wood fins to the architect's design

-  second floor, west elevation, single opening containing two windows separated by a pre-cast concrete fin with a clad steel beam above and originally wood fins as per the architect's design on the window to the north side of the fin

- second floor, east elevation the opening for two windows with a precast concrete fin between and clad steel beam above and beneath them,

- first floor level, east elevation, rectangular window opening.

·         The steel columns with their wood cladding on two faces supporting the upper level of the front wing

Interior

The following heritage attributes contribute to the design and physical value of the interior of the building including the main entrance, lobby and staircase to the second floor lobby, and the second floor board room: 

Main Entrance, Lobby and Staircase

·         The main entrance vestibule which includes a projecting, glazed volume with glazed double doors, the double, wood-panelled entrance doors which open to the interior, flanked by, on the interior section facing the lobby, two screens, partially glazed with wood slats and corresponding with the height of the doors. Above the panelled doors and the screens are glazed transoms

·         The wood-panelled, double-doors with unequal widths, and each has a narrow vertical glazed openings, vertical wood panel

·         The ironmongery for the doors includes, on the exterior face two, large, metal door pulls composed of a series of vertical and horizontal elements, with horizontal bars set at different heights. A metal Guides' trefoil symbol is also included on the face of the north door at the entrance.  On the interior face, the door pull on the northern door includes a cut-out trefoil

·         The lobby materials include a slate floor in a random pattern, a concrete block wall on the east side of the staircase and wood slats fixed to the ceiling

·         The lobby staircase includes a screen composed of vertical metal elements, stairs with an exposed structure with terrazzo treads and wood noggins, a continuous wood handrail combined of a cylindrical rail and a wood facing plate fixed to the metal screen or walls with a curvilinear profile. (Please note, originally this hand-rail continued along the face of the reception desk designed by the architect)

·         At the second floor level the staircase handrail continues along a low block wall balustrade which is cut down to a lower height on its north end to include a low metal screen

Second Floor Boardroom

·         The second floor boardroom ceiling which includes a glazed clerestory, exposed metal roof decking, pairs of wood rafters along the north side, a coved ceiling along the south side and a lower ceiling level parallel to the full-width ribbon window on the south elevation

·         The plan of the second floor boardroom includes an entrance area on the north side with a lower ceiling and in the third bay at the east end, a longer bay which extends north

Contextual Value

The following heritage attributes contribute to the contextual value of the Girl Guides of Canada Headquarters at 50 Merton Street as it supports the Post-World War II character of Merton Street in the section between Yonge Street and Mount Pleasant Road

·         The scale, form and massing of the two-three-storey building, in a Post-War Modern style clad with a combination of brick and curtain wall glazing set on raised podium with an exterior terrace facing the street on the north side of Merton Street.

Notice of Objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate

Notice of an objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property may be served on the City Clerk, Attention: Administrator, Secretariat, City Clerk's Office, Toronto City Hall, 2nd Floor West, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2N2.; Email: hertpb@toronto.ca within thirty days of May 17, 2022, which is June 16, 2022. The notice of objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property must set out the reason(s) for the objection and all relevant facts.

Getting Additional Information:

Further information in respect of the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property is available from the City of Toronto at:

http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2022.PH33.19

TAKE NOTICE that Council for the City of Toronto intends to designate the property, including the lands, buildings and structures thereon known municipally as 508 and 510 Church Street under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.O.18, as amended, as a property of cultural heritage value or interest.

Reasons for Designation

The properties at 508 and 510 Church Street are worthy of designation under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act for their cultural heritage value, and meet Ontario Regulation 9/06, the provincial criteria prescribed for municipal designation, under the categories of design/physical value, historical/associative value, and contextual value.

Description

Located on the west side of Church Street between Alexander and Maitland streets, the properties at 508 and 510 Church Street comprise two adjoining structures, originally constructed as residences in c.1856-1858.The properties are three storeys high with a complex cross-gabled roof. They are faced in brick with wood and stone trim, and have a raised basement level faced in rough stone. The properties have evolved physically and undergone a series of alterations in their 160-year history, including the integration of their interiors and the loss of the adjacent resident units of the historic row (now a parking lot). The other surviving unit is located at the corner of Church and Maitland streets. 

The adjoining structures at 508 and 510 Church Street currently house Crews and Tangos, a drag performance venue, bar, and gathering space for the LGBTQ2S+ community. At the rear of the properties, a two-storey coach house is situated on Donna Shaw Lane and visible from the parking lot to the north. It is connected to the primary structures via a one-storey addition. Faced in brick, the coach house has a gabled roof, and the projecting gable ends with brick corbeling form a parapet with an unusual stepped silhouette. The coach house's ground floor currently includes a bar and a dance floor.

In 2013, the painted brick exterior on Church Street was repainted with a mural by Nadijah Robinson and Elicser Elliott, depicting performers against a cobalt background. The artwork was one of 11 murals on 11 buildings as part of the Church Street Mural Project, led by Syrus Marcus Ware and James Fowler in association with the Church Wellesley Village Business Association and Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam. The initiative commemorated World Pride, which took place in Toronto in 2014.

Statement of Cultural Heritage Value

The pair of structures at 508 and 510 Church Street constitute a unique example of semi-detached house-form structures from the mid-nineteenth century, constructed as part of a former row at 508-518 Church Street, and have since evolved for commercial use. They are notable for their asymmetrical configuration and details such as rounded arches and brickwork that demonstrate a vernacular application of Romanesque Revival stylistic influences, which were popular during the second half of the nineteenth century. The properties also retain a nineteenth-century coach house, located to the rear of 508 Church Street; though altered, this structure represents an increasingly rare typology within Toronto.

The integrated properties hold direct associations with the evolution of the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood and with the more recent history of Toronto's LGBTQ2S+ community. The properties house Crews and Tangos (formerly Crews), one of Toronto's longest operating queer bars. The Crews and Tangos building has historical value as an iconic venue for queer community gatherings, rituals, performances, and cultural expression. Because the venue occupies a pair of former residences and a coach house, allowing it to spread across separate rooms and floors, it has the capacity to operate multiple bar spaces and dance floors simultaneously. These spaces cater to different activities and musical tastes, heightening the sense of inclusivity for which Crews and Tangos is noted.

Located at the centre of the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood (also known as The Village), less than two blocks south of its eponymous intersection, the subject properties are important in defining the area's character. They contribute to an eclectic streetscape that features a variety of commercial typologies as well as a predominance of nineteenth-century residential buildings converted to commercial use, including 508 and 510 Church Street. The properties are also physically, functionally, visually, and historically linked to their surroundings. For over four decades, Church and Wellesley has been the geographical heart of Toronto's LGBTQ2S+ community, with a concentration of queer community spaces, clubs, bars, restaurants, among which Crews and Tangos is considered an anchor. Operating since 1994, the Crews and Tangos building is a cultural landmark within the neighbourhood and for Toronto's broader LGBTQ2S+ community. Additionally, the mural added in 2013 for World Pride contributes to the building's status as a visual landmark.

Heritage Attributes

Design and Physical Value

The following heritage attributes contribute to the cultural heritage value of the properties at 508 and 510 Church Street as a unique example of mid-nineteenth-century semi-detached residences converted to commercial use, as well as a representative and rare example of a surviving nineteenth-century coach house:

·         The scale, form, and massing of the primary building as a three-storey pair of former residences

·         The primary building's material palette, consisting of brick with stone and wood detailing

·         The primary building's asymmetrical composition on the front elevation, including a wider portion of three bays beneath a common roofline, and a fourth bay to the north

·         The complex cross-gabled roof, with a truncated front gable above the building's wider portion and a narrow front gable above the northern bay

·         Fenestration including segmentally arched openings on a two-storey bay window, and round-arched windows

·         Architectural details including leaded glass transoms, brick corbeling and window details, wood brackets, and half-cove wood shingles

·         The scale, form, and massing of the rear building as a two-storey former coach house

Historic and Associative Value

The following heritage attributes contribute to the cultural heritage value of the properties at 508 and 510 Church Street as a longstanding and iconic venue for queer community gatherings, rituals, performances, and cultural expression:

·         The properties' siting and orientation on the west side of Church Street

·         The World Pride mural covering the primary building's east and south elevations, depicting performers against a cobalt background

·         The properties' scale, form, and massing as a three-storey pair of former residences with a two-storey former coach house, allowing different forms of programming to operate simultaneously across separate rooms and floors

Contextual Value

The following heritage attributes contribute to the cultural heritage value of the properties at 508 and 510 Church Street as a character-defining building within the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood and a cultural landmark:

·         The properties' siting and orientation on the west side of Church Street

·         The scale, form, and massing of the primary building as a three-storey pair of former residences

·         The primary building's material palette, consisting of brick with stone and wood detailing

·         The World Pride mural covering the primary building's east and south elevations, depicting performers against a cobalt background

Notice of Objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate

Notice of an objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property may be served on the City Clerk, Attention: Administrator, Secretariat, City Clerk's Office, Toronto City Hall, 2nd Floor West, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2N2.; Email: hertpb@toronto.ca within thirty days of May 17, 2022, which is June 16, 2022. The notice of objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property must set out the reason(s) for the objection and all relevant facts.

Getting Additional Information:

Further information in respect of the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property is available from the City of Toronto at:

http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2022.CC43.6

To consider a proposal to name the proposed private lane at 165 Tapscott Road as "Priya Lane".

At its meeting to be held on May 27, 2022 at 9:30 a.m., or shortly afterwards, the Scarborough Community Council will hear from, or by his or her counsel, agent or solicitor, any person who claims that his or her lands will be prejudicially affected by the naming and who applies to be heard with respect to the proposed naming. 

The meeting of the Scarborough Community Council will be held with members participating in person and remotely, and the proceedings of the Scarborough Community Council will be conducted publicly.

Special Assistance for Members of the Public:  City staff can arrange for special assistance with some advance notice. If you need special assistance, please call 416-396-7287, TTY 416-338-0889 or e-mail scc@toronto.ca.

Notice to People writing or making presentations to the Scarborough Community Council:  The personal information contained in your correspondence to Toronto City Council or its committees is collected under the City of Toronto Act, 2006, and the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 27 – Council Procedures, section 27-21. Any personal information will become part of the public record and may be posted on the City's website, unless you expressly request the removal of personal identity information. Questions about the collection of this information may be directed to the City Clerk's office at 416-392-7033.

The City videotapes committee and community council meetings. If you make a presentation to a committee or community council, the City will be videotaping you and City staff may make the video tapes available to the public.

To obtain additional information, submit comments or address the Scarborough Community Council meeting on May 27, 2022, please contact the following City official no later than 4:30 p.m. on May 26, 2022.

Ms. Julie Amoroso

Administrator, Scarborough Community Council

City Clerk’s Office

Scarborough Civic Centre

150 Borough Drive

Toronto, Ontario M1P 4N7

Telephone: 416-396-7287; Fax: 416-392-2980

E-mail: scc@toronto.ca

This Notice is dated this 16th day of May, 2022.

To consider a proposal to name a proposed private lane at 844 Don Mills Road as “Quarrington Lane".

At its meeting to be held on May 24, 2022 at 9:30 a.m., or shortly afterwards, the North York Community Council will hear from, or by his or her counsel, agent or solicitor, any person who claims that his or her lands will be prejudicially affected by the naming and who applies to be heard with respect to the proposed naming. 

The meeting of the North York Community Council will be held with members participating in person and remotely, and the proceedings of the North York Community Council will be conducted publicly.

Special Assistance for Members of the Public:  City staff can arrange for special assistance with some advance notice. If you need special assistance, please call 416-395-0480, TTY 416-338-0889 or e-mail nycc@toronto.ca.

Notice to people writing or making presentations to the North York Community Council: The City of Toronto Act, 2006 and the City of Toronto Municipal Code authorize the City of Toronto to collect any personal information in your communication or presentation to City Council or its committees. The City collects this information to enable it to make informed decisions on the relevant issue(s). If you are submitting letters, faxes, e-mails, presentations or other communications to the City, you should be aware that your name and the fact that you communicated with the City will become part of the public record and will appear on the City’s website. The City will also make your communication and any personal information in it – such as your postal address, telephone number or e-mail address – available to the public, unless you expressly request the City to remove it.

Many Committee, Board, and Advisory Body meetings are broadcast live over the internet for the public to view.  If you speak at the meeting you will appear in the video broadcast.  Video broadcasts are archived and continue to be publicly available.

To obtain additional information, submit comments or address the North York Community Council meeting on May 24 2022, please contact the following City official no later than 4:30 p.m. on May 23, 2022.

            Ms. Julie Amoroso

            Administrator, North York Community Council

            City Clerk’s Office

            North York Civic Centre

            Main Floor, 5100 Yonge Street

            Toronto, Ontario M2N 5V7

            Telephone: 416-395-0480; Fax: 416-395-7337

            E-mail: nycc@toronto.ca

IN THE MATTER OF THE ONTARIO HERITAGE ACT

R.S.O. 1990, CHAPTER O.18 AND

CITY OF TORONTO, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO

1913 YONGE STREET

NOTICE OF PASSING OF DESIGNATION BY-LAW 260-2022

TAKE NOTICE that Council for the City of Toronto passed Designation By-law 260-2022 on April 6 and 7, 2022, which designates the lands, buildings and structures known municipally as 1913 Yonge Street, under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.O.18, as amended, as a property of cultural heritage value or interest.

The City Clerk did not receive any objections to the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property. Therefore, City Council did not consider any objections and passed the Designation By-law for the Property.

IF YOU WISH TO APPEAL TO THE ONTARIO LAND TRIBUNAL:

Take notice that an appeal of the Designation by-law for the Property by those persons permitted to appeal under section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act may be made by filing a notice of appeal with the City Clerk, Attention: Administrator, Secretariat, City Clerk's Office, Toronto City Hall, 2nd Floor West, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2N2; Email: hertpb@toronto.ca within thirty days of April 28, 2022, which is May 30, 2022.

A Notice of Appeal must:

(1)   set out the reasons for the objection to the designation by-law; and

(2)   set out the reasons in support of the objection to the designation by-law.

If you wish to appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT), forms are available from the Ontario Land Tribunal website at https://olt.gov.on.ca.

Who Can File An Appeal:

Any persons who object to the designation by-law may refer the matter to the Ontario Land Tribunal.

A copy of the by-law and background information about the application is available for public inspection by contacting Heritage Planning staff at heritageplanning@toronto.ca.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ONTARIO HERITAGE ACT

R.S.O. 1990, CHAPTER O.18 AND

CITY OF TORONTO, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO

241 RICHMOND STREET WEST

NOTICE OF PASSING OF DESIGNATION BY-LAW 263-2022

TAKE NOTICE that Council for the City of Toronto passed Designation By-law 263-2022 on April 6 and 7, 2022, which designates the lands, buildings and structures known municipally as 241 Richmond Street West under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.O.18, as amended, as a property of cultural heritage value or interest.

The City Clerk did not receive any objections to the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property. Therefore, City Council did not consider any objections and passed the Designation By-law for the Property.

IF YOU WISH TO APPEAL TO THE ONTARIO LAND TRIBUNAL:

Take notice that an appeal of the Designation by-law for the Property by those persons permitted to appeal under section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act may be made by filing a notice of appeal with the City Clerk, Attention: Administrator, Secretariat, City Clerk's Office, Toronto City Hall, 2nd Floor West, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2N2; Email: hertpb@toronto.ca within thirty days of April 28, 2022, which is May 30, 2022.

A Notice of Appeal must:

(1)   set out the reasons for the objection to the designation by-law; and

(2)   set out the reasons in support of the objection to the designation by-law.

If you wish to appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT), forms are available from the Ontario Land Tribunal website at https://olt.gov.on.ca.

Who Can File An Appeal:

Any persons who object to the designation by-law may refer the matter to the Ontario Land Tribunal.

A copy of the by-law and background information about the application is available for public inspection by contacting Heritage Planning staff at heritageplanning@toronto.ca.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ONTARIO HERITAGE ACT

R.S.O. 1990, CHAPTER O.18 AND

CITY OF TORONTO, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO

147 CHURCH STREET (Including Entrance Addresses at 149 Church Street, 18 Dalhousie Street, and 20 Dalhousie Street)

NOTICE OF PASSING OF DESIGNATION BY-LAW 316-2022

TAKE NOTICE that Council for the City of Toronto passed Designation By-law 316-2022 on April 6 and 7, 2022, which designates the lands, buildings and structures known municipally as 147 Church Street (including entrance addresses at 149 Church Street, 18 Dalhousie Street, and 20 Dalhousie Street) West under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.O.18, as amended, as a property of cultural heritage value or interest.

The City Clerk did not receive any objections to the Notice of Intention to Designate the Property. Therefore, City Council did not consider any objections and passed the Designation By-law for the Property.

IF YOU WISH TO APPEAL TO THE ONTARIO LAND TRIBUNAL:

Take notice that an appeal of the Designation by-law for the Property by those persons permitted to appeal under section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act may be made by filing a notice of appeal with the City Clerk, Attention: Administrator, Secretariat, City Clerk's Office, Toronto City Hall, 2nd Floor West, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 2N2; Email: hertpb@toronto.ca within thirty days of April 28, 2022, which is May 30, 2022.

A Notice of Appeal must:

(1)   set out the reasons for the objection to the designation by-law; and

(2)   set out the reasons in support of the objection to the designation by-law.

If you wish to appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT), forms are available from the Ontario Land Tribunal website at https://olt.gov.on.ca.

Who Can File An Appeal:

Any persons who object to the designation by-law may refer the matter to the Ontario Land Tribunal.

A copy of the by-law and background information about the application is available for public inspection by contacting Heritage Planning staff at heritageplanning@toronto.ca.