property that affect reasons for designation must be considered by City Council after consulting with the municipal Heritage Committee. Council has the option of granting consent with or without terms and conditions, or refusing the application within 90 days of the application. The authority to approve minor alterations for this property has been delegated to the City Planner or designate through CR501/2019.
Part IV, 39 (1) of the OHA provides that “The council of a municipality may pass by-laws providing for the making of a grant or loan to the owner of a property designated under this Part for the purpose of paying for the whole or any part of the cost of alteration of such designated property on such terms and conditions as the council may prescribe.” The City’s Community Heritage Fund (Reserve Fund 157) exists to encourage the conservation of the built heritage through the provision of financial assistance to owners wishing to acquire and/or conserve designated heritage properties.
Discussion:
Architectural Style:
This designated property contains a Victorian Italianate building with pitched roof, wide overhanging eaves supported by decorative brackets, tall and narrow arched windows with elaborate crowns, and includes typical areas of elaborations at the windows, cornice, porch and doorways. 1 Italianate style also features cast-iron elements, and windows with pediments, brackets, agraffes, pilasters, ornamental mouldings. 2 Although this property has an older designation bylaw with little detail in the reasons for designation, many heritage features had been identified on a 1976 Building Structure Inventory. This includes the cast iron fence mentioned in the designation bylaw, and exterior features such as typical Italianate style in the hipped roof shape, widely overhanging eaves supported by decorative brackets, and elaborately ornamented windows. The designation in the interior extends to include for example, the marble fireplace and walnut stairway. Some of this expanded heritage description has been included in Appendix A. All of the features described are to be conserved as part of the redevelopment.
Heritage Conservation Considerations:
Standards & Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada (S&G) explain that “Windows […] are among the most conspicuous of any building’s features. They punctuate the façade […] their arrangement and design is fundamental to the building’s appearance and heritage value. Each window […] is, in itself, a complex assembly whose function and operation must be considered as part of its conservation.”
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