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Please note that the blog has moved to a new home on the website of the Heritage Resources Centre of the University of Waterloo. Please continue to follow OHA+M at https://uwaterloo.ca/heritage-resources-centre/blog.Dan Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00741655648180256011noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144337159978999055.post-39125501198330124802019-05-25T15:19:00.004-05:002019-05-27T14:02:53.447-05:00What to make of Bill 108<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You would have to have been living under a rock not to have heard about the province’s proposed changes to the Ontario Heritage Act. [1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The proposals are part of a much bigger omnibus bill introduced on May 2, 2019. Bill 108, which may have already cleared Second Reading, is on a fast track and expected to be passed into law by June 6, when the Legislature rises for the summer recess. [2]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The government is seeking comments on the bill via the Environmental Registry until June 1. [3] Since the bill’s introduction, heritage groups, municipalities, the development industry and others have been scrambling to understand and assess the potential impacts of the proposed changes — to the OHA in particular — and to put together a response.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The last significant changes to the Ontario Heritage Act were made in 2005 when the Act underwent a major overhaul. A common complaint up to that time was that the legislation had been amended very little since its passage in 1975 — a whole generation earlier. There was a justifiable feeling that legislation that is not periodically updated — not deemed worthy of taking up time on a government’s busy legislative agenda — must not be seen as important. The neglect of the OHA, where needed changes were identified pretty much from the start, seemed indicative of a bigger neglect of cultural heritage and its conservation as a government priority.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The 2005 amendments to the OHA (combined with stronger heritage policies in the 2005 Provincial Policy Statement) changed that perception.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So in this sense it is a healthy thing that, 14 years after those long overdue reforms, the province is again turning its attention to heritage legislation and proposing significant changes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But: Unlike the 2005 changes it is clear the current proposals do not enjoy wide acceptance by those who will be most affected by them. Municipalities, heritage organizations, and development industry groups were all on-side with the last round of changes. This time … not so much.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is it unrealistic to expect that the major stakeholders impacted by a government initiative will be happy about it, or at least accepting? Perhaps. <i>But the onus is on government to try hard to bring the different interests affected to that point. </i>Or is this an old-fashioned idea?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It certainly ain’t happening with Bill 108. There was no meaningful consultation on these proposals with the cultural heritage sector and municipalities. A one month window to provide comments, <i>after</i> the legislation has already been introduced and where passage (done deal!) is anticipated within a week of the end of the comment period, is, well, woefully inadequate, if not a sham. [5]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Compounding the problem is that almost all the proposals appear to have come, pretty much unfiltered, from just one of the affected interest groups — the development industry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is of course perfectly legitimate for BILD (Building Industry and land Development Association) and the OHBA (Ontario Home Builders Association) to put forward their views and proposals on legislative and policy changes to government. [6] Arguably, since Bill 108, the <i>More Homes, More Choice Act, 2019</i>, is ostensibly about increasing housing supply, it even makes sense to <i>start</i> with the development industry’s concerns and suggestions before involving other players in a broader policy-making effort to address housing supply and related issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately what happened here is that the government overreacted to the industry’s concerns and plowed ahead with the industry’s proposed changes — without giving careful consideration in many cases to their consequences and without the meaningful participation of the municipal and heritage stakeholders who might have helped ensure such consideration. Both a good process and, I would argue, sound public policy were sacrificed on the altar of expediency (aka just get the damn thing done and fast!).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The need for speed, combined with some fuzzy thinking, also meant that many important “details” of the changes had to wait for a later day. Ironically for a government that should be ideologically averse to greater regulation, many — too many — of the changes have been effectively pushed off onto implementing regulations that will come sometime later this year. Bill 108, if you haven’t noticed, enables a truly staggering number of regulations, including this jaw-dropper: “prescribing or otherwise providing for anything that is required or permitted under this Act to be prescribed or otherwise provided for in the regulations, including governing anything required or permitted to be done in accordance with the regulations.” [7]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, which will be saddled with the writing of this slew of regulations, gamely assures stakeholders that there will be opportunity to participate in their development. One wonders if they know what they’re in for.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please note: Just because there is a reg-making power doesn’t mean that a reg has to be put in place. In several cases the no-reg-at-all outcome would be best.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To wit, the bone-headed idea of “principles” to be prescribed to guide municipal decisions under certain sections of Parts IV and V of the Act (to be prescribed of course).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">An argument might be made that the Act lacks a clear purpose statement and that its use, primarily by municipalities but others too, might benefit from some lofty wording about, say, the value of our cultural heritage and its contribution to Ontario’s social, economic and other goals. Something like this would go right up front.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Instead we’ll have some other kind of statements to be enacted not by the Legislature but later by cabinet via regulation: “Principles” that municipalities will have to “consider.” However innocuous the principles turn out to be (in a best case scenario), this approach reflects a paternalistic attitude toward municipal governments and is, as far as I know, unprecedented in municipal enabling legislation. The principles are likely to further inhibit designations and other conservation decisions, simply because their mandatory consideration will introduce another tedious (and pointless) step in the decision-making process — one that municipal heritage committees, municipal staff and councils will all have to deal with.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ditto for the new requirements, also coming soon in regulation, for the contents of designation by-laws. Any issues with statements of significance and descriptions of heritage attributes should be addressed by revising — and better promoting — provincial guidance in the Ontario Heritage Toolkit. Maybe tinker with the Act’s definition of “heritage attributes.” But as a general rule: “Legislate if necessary, but don’t necessarily legislate.” A rule sadly not followed in Bill 108.</span></span></div>
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<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">Alteration appeals to LPAT</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> — this overdue change recognizes that many “alterations”, like those in façadism redevelopments, involve major, significant changes to designated property more akin to demolition/removal. Sending appeals to LPAT is also consistent with alteration appeals in heritage conservation districts.<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The really big reform here is the change to the appeal process for Part IV designations. Instead of review of a proposed designation by the Conservation Review Board, we’ll have a <i>binding</i> appeal to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal. Local councils will no longer have the last word on a) what constitutes a cultural heritage property of value to the community, and b) the recognition and protection of that resource.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I believe this change is misguided: It will further discourage heritage protection and conservation while doing nothing to improve or streamline the designation process.</span></span></div>
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<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">the development industry wants one kind of each</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">the Planning Act has one kind of each</span></span></li>
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<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">The CRB has never been busier, putting the lie to the claim that owners don’t bother with it because it can’t provide a binding result.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Respecting local autonomy and democratic decision-making, the CRB process works through persuasion — and in almost all cases (whether to designate <i>or not to designate</i>) the municipal council follows the Board’s recommendations. [8]</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">The CRB is a special purpose tribunal; its near-single focus on designation has made it the de facto expert on the interpretation and application of the criteria for designation in O. Reg. 9/06. This expertise resides with current CRB members and will be lost or hopelessly diluted in LPAT members, however well-intentioned.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">The CRB has a stellar record in resolving designation disputes at the pre-hearing stage; it is less formal, less expensive for the parties, and deals with matters more expeditiously compared to the LPAT.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">The Planning Act measures that are often compared to designation don’t work the same way — Official Plan policies and zoning by-laws are <i>prescriptive</i> (you can do this, you can’t do that) while designation is <i>permissive </i>(you can do anything if you get the okay). This means that <i>the true comparators to planning controls are alteration and demolition control powers under sections 33 and 34, </i>both of which, as proposed in Bill 108, include appeals to the LPAT.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">The Part V consistency argument also doesn't hold up. A review of appeals of HCDs to the LPAT shows that appeals <i>are not on the merits of the designation as a whole</i> but focus on the district’s boundaries, provisions of the HCD plan and other details.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">The development industry concerns about delays and non-binding decisions <i>are already being largely addressed through proposed new time limits on designation and changes to alteration appeals.</i></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Note 1: Bill 108 amends 13 statues. The changes to the OHA are in Schedule 11. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Note 2: The OHA changes will come into force not on passage of the bill but on the date of proclamation. This will likely be this fall, once key regulations have been developed and arrangements made for the transfer of Conservation Review Board functions to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Note 4: ACO’s comments (still draft at time of writing) can be seen here: </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Note 5: As for consideration of the bill in committee, when changes, if any, to the legislation would be made, the one day (May 31) set aside for public hearings on the whole of the bill unfortunately coincide with the annual Ontario Heritage Conference (this year in Goderich-Bluewater) when many leading heritage advocates will be out of town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Note 6: Specifically BILD’s submission of January 25, 2019 on the Housing Supply Action Plan. In the interests of full disclosure, I have been retained since 2017 by an owner/developer that is a BILD member and was privy to some discussions regarding input into BILD’s submission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Note 7: Compare the comprehensive 2005 amendments to the OHA, which called for only four new regulations, including O. Reg. 9/06 and O. Reg.10/06. The direction at the time was that for every one new regulation put forward for approval two existing regulations would have to be repealed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Note 8: it would be important to closely analyze the pattern of municipal reaction and response to Conservation Review Board decisions and recommendations. To my knowledge this has not been done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">*It is now <u>really</u> easy to subscribe. Just put yourself on the mailing list!</span>Dan Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00741655648180256011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144337159978999055.post-3417240669044865822018-04-27T14:42:00.001-05:002018-04-27T14:42:43.408-05:00Wish list changes to the OHA, #3 ... or a consistent appeal process<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For those who have not yet subscribed on the UWaterloo Heritage Resources Centre website, or have had technica</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">l difficulties subscribing, this post from April 27, 2018 is here:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">https://uwaterloo.ca/heritage-resources-centre/blog/post/wish-list-changes-oha-3-or-consistent-appeal-process.</span>Dan Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00741655648180256011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144337159978999055.post-26519850672923016292018-04-07T07:04:00.003-05:002018-04-07T07:04:45.185-05:00Good heritage stats are hard to find, 3rd edition<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For those who have not yet subscribed on the UWaterloo Heritage Resources Centre website, or have had technica</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">l difficulties subscribing, this post from April 5, 2018 is here: https://uwaterloo.ca/heritage-resources-centre/blog/post/good-heritage-stats-are-hard-find-3rd-edition.</span>Dan Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00741655648180256011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144337159978999055.post-77981607965070100722018-03-19T10:46:00.001-05:002018-03-19T10:46:11.735-05:00A Tax Class for Heritage Gets the Cold Shoulder<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For those who have not yet subscribed on the UWaterloo Heritage Resources Centre website, or have had technica</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">l difficulties subscribing, this post from March 16, 2018 is here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I launched the blog three years ago, during Heritage Week 2015, with an article marking the 40th anniversary of the Ontario Heritage Act and the tenth anniversary of the 2005 overhaul of the act. With new articles every few weeks, the blog now boasts more than 70 posts on a wide range of topics. The focus from the start has been Ontario’s legal and policy framework for cultural heritage as well as current public policy initiatives and issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let’s face it, serious discussion of heritage policy can be a bit dry and technical analysis of legislation, in particular, can make the eyes roll. While I try to keep things engaging — and occasionally take a break from the “heavy stuff” altogether — OHA+M is not for all tastes. A friend (?) recently referred to the blog as bigyawn.com! Haha.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay, it <i>is</i> a blog for heritage policy wonks. And, within that niche audience, the reception has been very gratifying. OHA+M has come to be seen as a respected source of information and commentary. Last October the blog earned its creator and blogger an Award of Excellence for Heritage Education, Awareness and Scholarship from the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many of you will be familiar with the centre and its former director, Robert Shipley. Robert retired last year, although continues to be involved with the HRC. The new director, Michael Drescher, is committed to strengthening the HRC’s mandate. That mandate, according to the website, is “to promote a better understanding of natural and human heritage for the improvement of planning management and public policy, through research, education, and extension work.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Michael says the collaboration on OHA+M “will expand the HRC’s role as ideas generator and centre for the discussion and debate of heritage legislation, policy and issues.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For my part the commitment of the HRC to house, manage and promote OHA+M marks a major turning point and takes the blog to a whole new level. I’m excited to see how this works out.</span></span></div>
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</span>Dan Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00741655648180256011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144337159978999055.post-54385041983590186922018-01-05T11:08:00.001-06:002018-01-06T18:10:20.485-06:00Looking back at 2017 ...<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I first got to know Steve when I joined the then-Ministry of Culture and Recreation in 1980. Steve was the first executive director of the Heritage Conservation Division. (Imagine a whole division devoted to heritage — how times have changed; but then the the work of the division encompassed Ontario Heritage Foundation (now OHT) programs as well as ministry heritage programs.) Until his departure in 1981 or so to work on an Ontario bicentennial project, Steve was the boss of Larry Ryan, the manager of the Heritage Trust unit, who was my boss.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Steve was/is famously meticulous and I can still conjure up his trademark little notes to staff, well-crafted in black ink, suggesting follow-up on this or that. He may have found his true calling later doing historical research — Anthony Adamson once called him a “ferret” for his ability in this respect — and as a writer and advocate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I remember Steve as a strong promoter of the fledgling OHF heritage easements program (my bailiwick). I fondly recall his counselling me not to say that we “took” easements on properties. One “took” snuff, said Steve; one <i>acquired </i>easements.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s been quite a ride — much of it documented in these pages — for Peter Van Loan’s</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">private member’s bill to introduce incentives for heritage conservation into our tax system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mr. Van Loan, the Conservative Critic for Canadian Heritage and National Historic Sites, launched the bill in December 2016. Having survived a Second Reading vote last March, it got taken up by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI) in the fall. But</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://danschneiderheritage.blogspot.ca/2017/12/bill-c-323-dies-sacrificial-lamb.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">it died</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">when the committee decided at the end of November not to proceed with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Bill C-323 would have amended the Income Tax Act to create a 20% tax credit for the costs of rehabilitation of recognized historic places. It would also have provided an accelerated capital cost allowance for capital expenditures incurred in rehabilitation projects.<br /><br />As the National Trust for Canada noted, passage of the bill would have been a real game-changer for built heritage in this country. But, while that was not to be, the bill still had quite an impact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Coming seemingly out of nowhere, the bill prompted much discussion and debate — inside and outside the House — on Canada’s cultural heritage, the federal government’s part in its conservation and the efficacy of heritage tax measures in particular. Generating widespread support from heritage advocates nation-wide, the bill was a major catalyst for a study on all of the above by the ENVI committee, which resulted in its landmark report Preserving Canada’s Heritage: The Foundation For Tomorrow, released in early December. A report which ironically includes a strong recommendation for tax incentives.<br /><br />Hats off to Peter Van Loan for this important and valiant effort.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Miracle may be overstating just a bit, but it came as a wonderful surprise when the developers of the historic Gore Park buildings in downtown Hamilton decided in Nove</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">mber to … </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">save them all.</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(All the façades, that is.)</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This after Hamilton city council voted last January to approve their application for complete demolition of two of the four designated structures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last August Brockville proudly reopened its magnificent old railway tunnel under the downtown. The project involved a complete restoration of the 525 metre-long structure, with some added bells and whistles.</span></span></div>
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<li>“tax changes undertaken outside the [annual] budget process make it more difficult to ensure a coherent and consistent approach to fiscal management”</li>
<li>unclear effect on federal revenue (the Parliamentary Budget Officer assessed costs at $55 to $67 million in the first five years; officials from the Department of Finance stated it could be as high as $90 million a year) — Mr. Aldag later referred to the bill as a “deluxe model”, suggesting perhaps that it was too broad in terms of the number and kind (commercial and residential) of eligible properties</li>
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</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A new concern was also raised: The lack of consultation and collaboration on the measures in the bill with provinces and territories, as well as municipal and Indigenous governments.<br /><br />This point is a good one, especially as, in our harmonized income tax regime, the provinces and territories would end up incurring a (small) part of the cost of any tax credit claimed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I see it, while this question might be interesting for further study, it is largely beside the point. Some projects for rehabilitation of historic buildings might go ahead without the tax incentive, but they might not be as large or comprehensive as they would have been with access to the incentive. And without the accountability measures that go along with historic tax credits projects almost certainly wouldn’t be as respectful of heritage features.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may recall that the ENVI committee examined Bill C-323 as part of a bigger study of the federal role in heritage. The committee’s report, “PRESERVING CANADA’S HERITAGE: THE FOUNDATION FOR TOMORROW” was released a few days ago, on December 4th. Please, please have a look! [3]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sound familiar?! [4] A phoenix arising from the ashes of Bill C-323?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Minister needs to know that people all across the country want to hear a clear and earnest commitment to act on the report. Heritage groups Canada-wide need to speak up with one voice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Note 1: The ENVI committee’s brief report on the bill is <a href="http://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/ENVI/report-9">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Note 2: OHA+M has devoted a lot of ink to Bill C-323 and its progress. See “Finally, a federal tax incentive for heritage?” and several later posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>The Conservative Members of the Committee … question how the Liberal Members can simultaneously recommend the establishment of a federal tax credit for the restoration and preservation of buildings listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places in Recommendation 11 and reject Bill C-323 which accomplishes exactly that objective. This is particularly surprising in light of the fact that a number of Liberal Members have publicly spoken out in favour of exactly such a tax credit program. We are disappointed that the Liberal Members of the Committee appear to have been instructed by the Office of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to vote against this critical tool for protecting Canada’s historic sites.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Note 5: For the latest updates see </span><a href="https://nationaltrustcanada.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5dd5f9c97cc4e7df3f1a5d21d&id=125d25bad6&e=33db282bb9" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">https://nationaltrustcanada.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5dd5f9c97cc4e7df3f1a5d21d&id=125d25bad6&e=33db282bb9</span></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don’t often get to toot my own horn, but … drum roll please. <br /><br />At the joint National Trust for Canada and Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals awards ceremony in Ottawa last month, I received an Award of Excellence for the blog in the Heritage Awareness, Education and Scholarship category.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />For those curious about how the blog came to be, here is the story.<br /><br />OHA+M was launched in the depths of February 2015 — Heritage Week to be precise. 2015 marked the 40th anniversary of the passage of the Ontario Heritage Act in 1975 and the 10th anniversary of comprehensive amendments to the Act in 2005. As former senior policy advisor with the Ontario culture ministry and the lead policy expert on the 2005 changes, I wanted to write a behind-the-scenes account of the province’s long and tortuous path to stronger heritage legislation over the 30 years between.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The name OHA+M highlights the focus on legislation, public policy, and tribunal decisions. But over the last two and a half years the blog has evolved into something more. Besides the main fare, it is (now and then) a bit of a bully pulpit. Sometimes it vaunts my favourite places and subjects (ruins, por exemplo). Often posts are imbued with personal recollections. One of my favourites is a tribute to conservation pioneer Peter Stokes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In June 2016 the blog welcomed its first guest author, heritage architect Michael McClelland, writing on the OHA and the "New Heritage.” (Hey, I’m looking for more guest bloggers!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">OHA+M now consistently attracts 400-500 pageviews a month. </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">While information is limited and largely anecdotal, the readership (this means you) appears to be mainly those with a professional interest — consultants, heritage planners, heritage educators — and members of volunteer organizations — municipal heritage committees, Architectural Conservancy Ontario members.</span></span></div>
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<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">“Great update Dan, thanks for your diligence. I especially liked the quotes from parliamentarians on all sides.” Amy Calder, Vancouver, BC, on a post about Bill C-323.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">“The blog is a great general resource for topics in heritage; I definitely recommend becoming a subscriber.” Samantha Irvine, ERA architects</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">“A very logical and succinct analysis Dan! Bravo and thank you. Let us hope it garnishes the attention it deserves!” Dave Colby, President, Rondeau Cottagers Association, on a post about the situation at Rondeau Provincial Park</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The answer may depend on the public response — the response from all of us who believe the time has finally come for game-changing tax incentives for heritage!</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Note 1: See previous OHA+M posts, starting with ”<a href="https://danschneiderheritage.blogspot.ca/2016/12/finally-federal-tax-incentive-for.html">Finally, a federal tax incentive for heritage?</a>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Note 2: The two days of ENVI hearings on the bill can be found <a href="http://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/ENVI/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=9565618">here</a>.</span></div>
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Dan Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00741655648180256011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144337159978999055.post-47985313515570701462017-10-10T21:15:00.004-05:002017-11-01T17:58:41.802-05:00Heritage on the Hill: Parliamentary committee studies federal framework for the conservation of cultural heritage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“<i>I don't think I am the only person who has ever wondered why it is that the Government of Canada has sponsored and passed comprehensive legislation dealing with national parks, national marine conservation areas, national museums, wildlife, migratory birds, species at risk, and general environmental protection—to cite only a few examples—but there is no comprehensive federal legislation—with the emphasis on comprehensive—dealing with national historic sites and historic places. To be sure, there is legislation on heritage lighthouses and heritage railways, but significantly, both were initiated by private members, whereas the former were all government bills.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Number one </i>[of the priority actions she recommends]<i>, the federal government can join municipalities, provinces, and territories in offering much needed incentives to attract investment. A range of approaches may be appropriate to reflect the different ownership types and property types. For example, a predictable go-to source of federal matching funds like the cost-share program works well for heritage properties owned by charities and non-profits. Consideration might be given to a mechanism where donations by private individuals and corporations are matched by the federal government as an interesting way to encourage philanthropy. A federal rehabilitation tax incentive like measures recently proposed in Bill </i><a href="http://apps.ourcommons.ca/ParlDataWidgets/en/bill/8648513"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(48, 0, 0); color: #300000;"><i>C-323</i></span></a><i> is a proven way to attract corporate investment to revenue-generating historic places, and gives older buildings vibrant, new uses.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Essentially there are only two mechanisms for the federal government to intervene in the commercial property market, and those are income tax measures or grants and contributions. You've heard about the CHPIF </i>[Commercial Heritage Properties Incentive Fund] <i>fund and its success as a pilot program for a tax credit program. Analysis by Deloitte and Ernst & Young concluded that refundable tax credits would be more effective than would a grant program. A refundable tax credit offers a number of advantages to the private sector that a contribution program does not. It offers predictability and timeliness. Contribution programs often require more than double the time for approvals on the front end. It leverages existing familiarity with the tax system, creating investor confidence. It also offers flexibility: it works well for large or small projects.</i><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But [in addition to sacred sites] for many indigenous groups, [indigenous heritage] can mean intangible things like laws, stories, and oral histories. It can mean places that may have no physical objects but that are sacred, where people go for ceremonies. It can be artifacts that many of you see in museums. It can be even things like intellectual properties that are passed: our stories, our songs, our totem poles. Those are all just some of the many things that represent indigenous heritage.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>… [I]ndigenous heritage is simply not part of most of the conversations. … I’m listening to the proposals for tax credits and the value of having systems that protect heritage sites, and while I understand and appreciate that it is important, it does not include our indigenous realities. [W]e’re almost having two different conversations ….<br /><br />The systems that are in place are not set up for our communities to actually access. We do not meet the criteria. The tax credit system is beyond what we are able to access in being able to not only have our heritage sites recognized but protected in the way we want. … [I]t’s often brought up in a developmental context, and even then it focuses usually only on archaeology. If there are some sort of traditional burial grounds or some sacred sites, they're to be preserved. But outside of that, everything that we know we need....<br /><br />There's a mindset, and it's challenging to begin to expand it: how do we have ourselves included? Not even in an existing system that we find ourselves that we don't fit in; how do we create a parallel system or integrate those systems that allow indigenous communities across this wonderful nation to be able to have the resources, outside of a development project, to actually begin to have national funds that allow us to begin to have our sites or our practices designated, recognized, and financially supported?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Note 1: See previous OHA+M posts: "</span><a href="https://danschneiderheritage.blogspot.ca/2016/12/finally-federal-tax-incentive-for.html">Finally, a federal tax incentive for heritage?</a>"; “<a href="https://danschneiderheritage.blogspot.ca/2017/03/debating-bill-c-323.html">Debating Bill C-323</a>”; ”<a href="https://danschneiderheritage.blogspot.ca/2017/03/bill-c-323-clears-hurdle.html">Bill C-323 clears a hurdle</a>”; and “<a href="https://danschneiderheritage.blogspot.ca/2017/04/probing-bill-c-323.html">Probing Bill C-323</a>.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Note 2: See <a href="http://www.nationaltrustcanada.ca/get-involved/hcf-news/5-minutes-your-time-today-can-help-change-game-historic-places-canada">http://www.nationaltrustcanada.ca/get-involved/hcf-news/5-minutes-your-time-today-can-help-change-game-historic-places-canada</a></span></div>
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Dan Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00741655648180256011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144337159978999055.post-87227923773450944252017-09-21T16:23:00.000-05:002017-10-29T13:19:39.633-05:00Ruins in the Ontario landscape, part three<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second is the <i>decision to abandon</i>, responsible for the metamorphosis of the structure into a ruin. As we’ve seen, an apparently “healthy” and functional building is sometimes deserted by its owner, left to fall down and moulder. In other cases a precipitating event such as a fire or other natural or man-made disaster has damaged or destroyed the building. But even here the source of the ruin lies not so much in the calamity as in the failure to repair or rebuild or otherwise re-use the site — to abandon the remains to their fate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In either situation, with or without a calamity, the decision to abandon would almost always have been the result of the owner/user’s determination that the repair and continued use of the structure, or the re-use of the site, was not economically practical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But — and herein lies the paradox of “saving” ruins — just as a ruin is a destroyed structure, so intervention inevitably destroys the ruin <i>qua</i> ruin to a greater or lesser extent. Something is lost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Part of ruins' appeal is their perversity. The very existence of a ruin seems to defy the norms of a society where land is real estate, its value determined by the real estate market. Not functional or useful through this lens, a ruin has no worth. What “value” it has is basically aesthetic and historical.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Old, unused barns start to lose their siding; then more and more pieces fall away. The timber structure with its massive beams can survive for decades before complete collapse. Eventually what remains are stone walls, foundations, often a cement silo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Near Sebringville, just west of Stratford, is an old steel truss bridge, deckless but with its stringers and floor beams intact, more or less. It crosses Black Creek, a tributary of the Thames, and once connected two parts of a farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The city, which wanted to designate the property, where the school is at threat of demolition, claimed that it met all three of the prescribed criteria — the building had design or physical value, historical or associative value and contextual value. It looked like a strong case, since a property need meet only one of the criteria to be eligible for designation. [2]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But, following a two-day hearing this January, the CRB found the property didn’t meet any of the criteria and recommended against its designation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The 24 page decision, by vice-chairs Su Murdoch and Robert V. Wright, reveals, yet again, the Board’s mastery of the significance criteria and sheds further light on their meaning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Conservation Review Board, don’t forget, has had ten years’ practice in using the now-ubiquitous criteria. The first cases where the Board explicitly applied the 9/06 requirements in its decisions go back to the fall of 2007. [3] Over the years the Board has become the de facto authority in the interpretation of the (inevitably) vague and (maybe) over-broad criteria, at least in the municipal designation context.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For those making the argument for designation and drafting notices of intention to designate, the case in London points out once again the importance of clearly and compellingly tying the stated reasons for designation to the wording of the criteria.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The part of the decision I found most revealing concerned the Board’s response to the city’s position that the school had heritage value because of its association with a prominent London architect.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>2. The property has historical value or associative value because it,<br />…<br />iii. demonstrates or reflects the work or ideas of an architect, artist, builder, designer or theorist who is significant to a community.</i><br /><br />Say you’re wanting to designate an old building or structure and you know its architect. How then do you make the argument that this criterion is satisfied?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looking at many (most?) designation by-laws that reference connection to an architect, it seems enough to establish that a) so-and-so architect was active in the community for a certain period and was responsible for a number of works, including such-and-such, and b) this particular building or structure is one of them. Bingo, criterion met.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It is established by the evidence … that the 1925 portion of the school building is the work of London architect H.C. McBride. Given his roster of local works, it is reasonable to assume that he was “significant to the community” of London. On its own, the statement that this is “part of the representative work of McBride” lacks an indication of how this example “demonstrates or reflects the work or ideas of” this architect, as prescribed by O. Reg. 9/06. For example, does it demonstrate any design preference, motifs, peculiarities, or techniques for which McBride was known, or is it an example of a departure from his typical repertoire, etc.? Without this context, the building has the status of being simply another project by an architect attributed with over a hundred works. </i>[4]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note 1: CRB 1617: read the case <a href="http://elto.gov.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CRB1617-MAR-01-17.doc">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note 2: The 9/06 criteria, along with their 10/06 brethren, were examined in an earlier post on OHA+M. See “<a href="https://danschneiderheritage.blogspot.ca/2016/01/the-test-for-designation-regulations.html">The test for designation — Regulations 9/06 and 10/06.</a>”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note 3: Following the passage of the criteria regulation in February 2006 it took a while for the first designation cases to go to a hearing and the Board to issue a report. Among them were decisions concerning the Moody-Trachsler House (174 King Street East) in Mississauga and the Banting Homestead in New Tecumseh (Alliston). Of course the CRB from the very start in 1975 was engaged in evaluating properties, mostly using similar if non-mandatory criteria.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, the founding of the Ontario Heritage Foundation as a centennial project in 1967. The Foundation, now the Ontario Heritage Trust, the province’s lead heritage agency, came into being 50 years ago this month.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>William Cranston [chair of the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board, created in 1953] announced to the Board in October 1965 the exciting news that legislation for the establishment of an Ontario Heritage Foundation would soon be introduced by the government. He was in a good position to know because he more than anyone else had been pushing his friends in the cabinet for just such a body as one of the most obvious and inexpensive ways of celebrating 1967. In due course the Foundation was established by an Act of the Legislature, on June 2, 1967. </i>[2]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note 3: In 1976 Richard Dumbrille was named a member of the Order of Canada for his endless efforts in preserving local history through the restoration of local architecture, almost entirely at his own expense. Richard, likely the last surviving founding member of the OHF/OHT, still lives in Maitland.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In case you missed it … on May 30, 2017 Minister of Municipal Affairs Bill Mauro introduced the government’s long-anticipated changes to the Ontario Municipal Board. Bill 139, the <i>Building Better Communities and Conserving Watersheds Act, 2017, </i>combines OMB/planning system-related changes and changes to the <i>Conservation Authorities Act</i>, which has also been under review. [1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take the change of name — out with O-M-B, in with L-PAT, Local Planning Appeal Tribunal. So imaginative. For more than a decade Ontario municipalities have had the ability to set up a “local appeal body”, instead of the OMB, for certain local land use planning matters, although no municipality has so far done this. [3] Well, let’s just make the OMB sound like it’s that kind of body — one concerned with your </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">local</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> issues. Of course, it will still be a provincially-appointed board that hears appeals mainly on municipal planning issues. So this is a symbolic gesture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First of all, there’s the deference the appeal body must give the decision under appeal. Currently the legislation says the OMB, in making a decision “that relates to a planning matter”, “shall have regard to” the decision of the municipal council or approval authority. As proposed, the shall-have-regard-to mandate stays, except instead of applying to decisions on any “planning matter” it applies to 14 specific types of decision, identified by a list of subsections of the Planning Act. This does (yawn) make things more definitive. [4]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The introduction of a clear-cut threshold for appeals may seem like a big deal, but it is really just doubling down on existing requirements. Hello, do we not already have a policy-led planning system? Section 3 of the Planning Act already says that planning decisions have to be consistent with the PPS. Legislation establishing provincial plans already requires that municipal plans must conform to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for heritage … rest assured that the amendments to the Ontario Heritage Act included in the bill are purely of the “consequential” kind — changing references to the OMB to LPAT and board to tribunal. So appeals to the OMB, er, LPAT, on heritage conservation districts, refusals to approve building demolition, etc., are all untouched.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note 2: I was not a fan of some of the ideas the government floated in its discussion paper last year. See OHA+M from December 4, 2016: “<a href="https://danschneiderheritage.blogspot.ca/2016/12/the-omb-under-review-again.html">The OMB under review (again)</a>”. </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are some good things in Bill 139 — the creation of the Local Planning Appeal Support Centre, for one — but the focus today is on the changes to the OMB’s jurisdiction and scope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note 4: As mentioned in the December 4, 2016 post, the “have regard to” injunction seems superfluous if not disingenuous, since of course an appeal body would carefully consider any decision it was being asked to overrule.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note 5: See subsection 6 (1) of Schedule 3 of Bill 139. With respect to appeals concerning zoning changes, subdivision plans, minor variances, consents and site plan control, there is no substantial change to the OMB/LPAT’s jurisdiction and powers, although appeals on the last three can be given to a local appeal body if municipalities choose to do so.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note 6: From a heritage perspective there is one potentially worrisome thing in the bill’s new prohibition on appeals of development that supports the use of transit. See subsection 6 (6) of Schedule 3 of the bill. This could potentially take away a community’s appeal rights in situations where it can be argued that a proposed development projects supports transit infrastructure.</span></span></div>
Dan Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00741655648180256011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144337159978999055.post-86661239692254896292017-06-03T09:31:00.002-05:002018-07-13T11:18:57.513-05:00Wish list changes to the OHA, #2 … or, two-way demolition appeals?<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is a strong argument that third parties — members of the public — should be able to appeal the decision of council to approve a demolition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since the overhaul of the OHA in 2006, the owner of designated property has had the right to appeal the municipality’s refusal to grant approval for demolition to the Ontario Municipal Board. Previously there was no appeal … because council did not have the power to say no to demolition requests. (Technically, it did, but a refusal only delayed the owner’s right to demolish for 180 days.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the strengthening of demolition controls — “no means no” — naturally came the question of appeal rights. And to which provincial tribunal. The Ontario Municipal Board and the Conservation Review Board were already in the OHA in other ways. For a number of reasons it was decided to go with the OMB on demolition appeals. [2]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But as for extending the right of appeal to third parties aggrieved by the municipal decision to give the green light to demolition, it was felt this had not been adequately explored and discussed with stakeholders. There was a sense that it might upset the development industry whose support for the legislation (tepid at best) was important for securing its passage. Put another way, the provincial government in 2005 was attempting to juggle a number of competing interests and new public rights of appeal seemed a stretch too far.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">True to its name, the Conservation Review Board reviews municipal (and some other) decisions. If you (the owner) don’t like the municipal decision on your alteration application you can “appeal” to the CRB for a hearing and report, with the municipality making the final decision. But only you can have the matter put to the CRB; third parties who don’t like the municipality’s decision (approving a major alteration, say, such as a façadism treatment) can’t.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For something that (fortunately) does not get invoked much, the Act actually has <i>two</i> procedures. If you are a municipal council wanting to repeal your designation by-law, section 31 applies. But if you are an owner wanting to have the designation removed from your property, you can use the application process in section 32. In either case the usual purpose of de-designating a property is to pave the way for demolition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, if the owner initiated the removal of the designation (section 32), there was no public notice requirement and the “appeal” process was much like the alteration approval process we looked at above. If the municipality said no, the owner could have the matter referred to the CRB for a hearing, etc. But if the municipality agreed to remove the designation, nobody else could object.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was all a bit confusing. For years certain culture ministry staff would respond to local questions about de-designation procedure, where it looked like the designation (and the building) might be at risk, by deliberately steering people toward the section 31 process. Why? Because unlike the section 32 process it had the virtue of giving members of the community the opportunity to object to the designation repeal and to make arguments for keeping the designation in an open hearing in the full public spotlight. (And in the rare de-designation cases that came before it, the CRB almost always recommended against repeal, which had a big persuasive effect on the council.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So how does this help us with our question about public appeal rights from demolition approvals?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, if demolition is more like de-designation than alteration, with comparable public and private interests at play, one could argue it should be treated in a similar way. Meaning that there should be a public right to object to a decision to approve the demolition of a designated structure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The council of a municipality shall pass a by-law to repeal a by-law or the part thereof designating a property under section 29 if the owner of the property has applied in writing to the council for consent to the demolition or removal of a building or structure on the property and,<br />(a) the council consents to the application …; or<br />(b) the Board has ordered that the municipality give its consent ….</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This provision essentially mandates de-designation, in whole or in part, where the municipality consents to demolition. In other words, if you can get approval to demolish the heritage building on the property that was the reason for the designation in the first place, the designation has to be repealed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If demolition effectively means de-designation, and the de-designation process entails a public right to object, then shouldn’t …?</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Note 1: For the sorry story of the Gore Park buildings see OHA+M from January 9, 2017: <a href="https://danschneiderheritage.blogspot.ca/2017/01/unbuilt-hamilton-which-opened-at-art.html">“For Hamilton’s Gore it’s crunch time!”</a> The petition can be found here: </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.change.org/p/eleanor-mcmahon-intervene-to-halt-demolition-of-heritage-buildings-on-gore-park-hamilton">https://www.change.org/p/eleanor-mcmahon-intervene-to-halt-demolition-of-heritage-buildings-on-gore-park-hamilton</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Note 2: There's more on this in OHA+M from February 8, 2017:<a href="https://danschneiderheritage.blogspot.ca/2017/02/alteration-demolition-and-partial.html"> “Alteration, demolition — and partial demolition?”</a> (about nine paragraphs down)</span></div>
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