municipalities were given a deadline<\/a> by which they had to promote all listed properties to full heritage designation.\u00a0<\/p>\nAny that are not moved by Jan. 1, 2027 will be removed from the heritage register all together, leaving them open to development.<\/p>\n
Adam Wynne, chair of the Toronto and East York Community Preservation Panel, said he\u2019s “disheartened” by Hydro One\u2019s move to take over the site.<\/p>\n
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Adam Wynne, chair of the Toronto and East York Community Preservation Panel, says the Cecil Street building is one of at least 3,900 listed heritage sites that could lose their status as of January 1. (Mike Smee\/CBC)<\/p>\n
Wynne is calling on the province to give municipalities more time to research listed properties and nominate them for full heritage designation.<\/p>\n
He said in Toronto there are at least 3,900 listed heritage properties, but the city only has the resources to promote about 100 to 120 of them to full designation before Jan. 1. This is because each property requires months of research, culminating in its own bylaw, which needs to be passed by city council.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, calls for an extension will likely not be heeded.<\/p>\n
The province’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing said in an email to CBC Toronto last week that in the summer of 2024, the province extended its deadline \u2014 from Jan. 1 2025 to Jan. 1 2027 \u2014 after pressure from municipalities.<\/p>\n
“The January 1, 2027 timeline remains unchanged,” the email reads. “This extension provided municipalities with additional time to identify and designate properties of cultural heritage value under the Ontario Heritage Act \u2026 municipalities have had an additional two years to determine which listed properties warrant designation.”<\/p>\n
‘This kind of infrastructure is necessary’: MPP<\/p>\n
Both 28 and 30 Cecil Street are owned by the same company, JBR Investments Inc., and have been broken up into a series of units, according to its tenants. <\/p>\n
One tenant showed CBC Toronto a letter dated Aug. 17 from the building’s owner that gives tenants until Nov. 30 to move out.<\/p>\n
MPP Bell said that although she\u2019s concerned about the loss of a heritage building, she understands the need for expanded electricity generation, as demand grows.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re plugging in our electric vehicles, we\u2019re building more condos \u2014 this kind of infrastructure is necessary.”<\/p>\n
Bell said her biggest concern is the future of the tenants in the building.<\/p>\n
“If you get evicted in this kind of hostile housing market, you\u2019re in for a massive economic shock. You can pay upwards of a thousand more in rent,” she said.<\/p>\n
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Guiseppe Awada, who has lived in a rented room in the house for about six months, says he was ‘saddened and shocked’ when he learned that he’ll have to move out of the building by Nov. 30. (Mike Smee\/CBC)<\/p>\n
She said she\u2019s hoping Hydro will compensate the current tenants, who live in rented rooms or small apartments within the building.<\/p>\n
Tenant Guiseppe Awada said he\u2019s not sure where he\u2019ll go when eviction day comes, but he\u2019ll be upset to leave the old building where he\u2019s lived for the past six months.<\/p>\n
“I was saddened and shocked but I feel like we don’t really have an option, so now we\u2019re forced to just find a random place,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-921421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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