DonValleyRainbow
Senior Member
97.85m. This one misses The 100m List.
Six months before an application was filed with the City of Toronto, the Midtown site at the southwest corner of Yonge and Roselawn was already a wellspring of controversy. In January of this year, the demolition of a 110-year-old Bank of Montreal building that occupied the 2444 Yonge Street site drew criticism from the Midtown community and City Planning, putting the site—and developer Main and Main—into the spotlight long before plans for the development came online.
I wonder if one way around these issues is to require that any building over a certain age automatically acquire provisional heritage designation, and thus need an explicit process to de-designate, rather than the reverse as it is now.Did they assign the remaining buildings as heritage yet?
Unfortunately, that would be abused in an instant.I wonder if one way around these issues is to require that any building over a certain age automatically acquire provisional heritage designation, and thus need an explicit process to de-designate, rather than the reverse as it is now.
I'm proposing instead that the onus is on the developer to demonstrate the buildings to be demolished aren't older than the date specified. In other words, the city doesn't have to maintain an explicit database.Could be an interesting one- though it will probably require an inventory and database of all buildings in the city (to figure out how old certain buildings are).
Hmm, outsourcing the onus of heritage designation to the private sector?I'm proposing instead that the onus is on the developer to demonstrate the buildings to be demolished aren't older than the date specified. In other words, the city doesn't have to maintain an explicit database.
In a sense -- more like pre-emptively preventing developers of taking advantage of an overworked city, and making heritage issues more transparent.Hmm, outsourcing the onus of heritage designation to the private sector?