There are no new delegations on the agenda for this month’s Heritage Guelph meeting, but there’s a lot of background work to do. There’s a new member of the committee to get orientated, there’s a matter of a wall along the river, there’s a permit application to move a heritage building, and there’s a new cultural heritage value report to set the stage for a future designation. This is what’s on the agenda for June…
NOTE #1: If you would like to delegate to one of the items at the meeting, or to access an alternative meeting format, get in touch with the committee liaison before Friday April 5 at noon at jack.mallon [at] guelph.ca or by calling (519) 837-5616, ext. 3872.
NOTE #2: This meeting will take place in-person at City Hall and virtually on Cisco Webex. You can find the link on the agenda page for this meeting on the City’s website.
New Member Orientation Workshop – The next meeting of council will appoint a new member to the Heritage Guelph, so to begin this meeting, we will talk about how these meetings work.
116 Gordon Street (Boathouse): Rehabilitation of Retaining Wall – Some repairs need to be effected on the retaining wall along the Speed River near the Boathouse. So why is this Heritage Guelph business? The Building Code requires that a guard rail be installed on top of the fall, and since this is a prominent change to a property inside the Brooklyn and College Hill Heritage Conservation District it needs to go through the committee. No recommendation is being presented along with this report.
331 Clair Road East: Heritage Permit Application – Although the developer was reportedly challenging the designation, they have filed the necessary paperwork to begin the movement of the farmhouse to it’s new location on the subject property. The staff report notes that there is a risk in moving the farmhouse, but the developers have taken necessary steps to protect the specific heritage elements on the building.
22 James Street West: Cultural Heritage Evaluation Report – This building has ties to the city’s railway history, it served as the transformer substation for the Guelph branch of the Toronto Suburban Railway. Although the building today is apartments, the Beaux-Arts
style structure is now one of the last remaining TSR buildings in Ontario, which is one of the reasons why it meets four out of nine of the prescribed criteria under Ontario Regulation 9/06.
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