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here are no plans to do anything with the two-storey brick building housing the Starbucks Coffee shop at the corner of Yonge Street and Davisville Avenue. But Josh Matlow isn’t taking any chances.

The councillor for St. Paul’s will be pushing to have the structure officially designated a heritage property. The building once housed a general store and post office owned by one John Davis – the same Davis that gave the name to the tiny, nearly forgotten community of Davisville.

Sipping coffee on one of the old leather couches in the old town hall, Matlow calls the building “the heart of the area.”

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East Yorker Donna-Lynn McCallum Agnes Macphail Award winner honoured at civic centre ceremony Ali Raza araza@insidetoronto.com Donna-Lynn McCallum, arguably one of East York’s proudest residents and a passionate advocate of the community, was honoured at the East York Civic Centre – a centre she saved from closure – during a ceremony Tuesday night.

McCallum died May 29, 2013 at the age of 69. She was born and raised in East York, and worked tirelessly to volunteer, advocate and serve her community right until her death.

As a mark of East York’s appreciation, a shadow box was unveiled at the civic centre containing several mementoes from McCallum’s life and work.

The unveiling happened just before the annual Agnes Macphail Awards at the East York Civic Centre.

“We thought it would be a good time to do it because the Agnes Macphail Awards is an event where she was always present,” said Ward 29 Toronto-Danforth Councillor

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Michael Prue, city councillors Mary Fragedakis (left) and Janet Davis, unveil the shadow box containing mementoes of Donna-Lynn McCallum, an icon of the East York community who died on May 29 2013.

Mary Fragedakis, who organized the unveiling.

“She was a great East York woman. Agnes Macphail was a great East York woman. It’s important to remember the icons of our community,” the councillor added.

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York Mayor Michael Prue also spoke about McCallum at the ceremony in which BeachesEast York Councillor Janet Davis also took part.

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ALAM HONOURED: The 2014 award recipient Sheila Lacroix and Muhammad Masood Alam, pose for pictures after he received the Agnes Macphail Award at the East York Civic Centre on Tuesday evening during the annual Agnes Macphail Award Ceremony. The ceremony honoured Alam for his contributions to the East York community. For more on Alam, please see our story, which appeared in last week’s East York Mirror or online at www.eastyorkmirror.com

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Jordan Ison, left and Stacey Ison of Toronto Honda and Toronto KIA announce a donation of $25,000 to Toronto East General Hospital Foundation. The funds will be used for Grand Slam 2015, a charity softball tournament that will raise funds for the hospital’s child, adolescent, and adult mental health programs. A number of former Major League players including Blue Jays Joe Carter and East York’s own Rob Butler are slated to pay in the tourney.

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East York’s Toronto Honda and Toronto KIA have teamed up with Scotiabank as a major sponsor of the Toronto East General Hospital’s 2015 Celebrity Softball Tournament this May. Toronto Honda/Toronto K I A p re s i d e n t s St a c e y and Jordan Ison made the announcement last Wednesday that the two brothers would contribute $25,000 to the sponsorship while Scotiabank would cover the remaining half to bring the total sponsorship amount

to $50,000.

TEGH Foundation’s president, Teresa Vasilopoulos was there to receive the donation.

“This opportunity is overwhelming for us,” she said.

“On behalf of the hospital we want to express our thanks to everyone in this room.”

Toronto Honda’s showroom was full of employees all dedicated to the cause that was special for the Ison brothers.

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oronto Council needs to fix its slow and cumbersome heritage preservation process, or risk jeopardizing not only the future of Toronto’s historically significant buildings, but the city’s relationship with developers.

The first point comes in a warning by the CEO of Heritage Toronto, one of our sources in this week’s exclusive feature on heritage preservation (pages 12 and 13). Too few staff and a long list of nominations for the city’s heritage inventory means a slow evaluation process getting properties protected. All the while, fast-paced development continues to make its lasting mark on the city.

“The delays mean we may lose buildings, particularly residential buildings, that don’t get evaluated time to get onto the list,” said our view in Francisco Alvarez.

The lack of staffing and History being resources at the city’s Heritage Services is affecting sacrificed to Preservation developers, too.

Sam Mizrahi, the new owner of inefficiency the former Stollerys at 1 Bloor St. told us he was surprised to hear a councillor was trying for a heritage designation on the site, only months after Mizrahi purchased it. He said his plans were always transparent and when he did over a year of prepurchase research, any question about heritage designation he put to the city was met with “indifference.”

In the end, his demolition of the site was perfectly legal and whether there was ever enough to deem the building historically significant enough to warrant protection remains to be seen.

Even developers working on heritage properties wish HPS had more staff. Deirdre Gibson with the architectural firm converting Wesley Mimico United Church into a seniors residence says the lack of staff made it difficult co-ordinating efforts.

The city has approved adding eight planning staff to study properties for potential Heritage Conservation Districts (HCD), but it may not be enough. There are 16 neighbourhood HCD requests, but over the next year the increased staff will only be able to approve three or four. And there’s an estimated 1,500 properties awaiting review for the heritage inventory list.

It’s our history that gets sacrificed by the city’s inefficiency. There’s a balance to strike between developers and heritage preservationists that starts with bringing this department up to speed.

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Honouring Alam’s contribution to East York

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t was with pleasure and pride that I joined the packed audience at Tuesday night’s Agnes Macphail Award ceremony to celebrate our community and the award’s recipient.

As was noted many times by the different speakers at the event, the award ceremony is unique in its recognition of how the East York community has produced so many notable people.

People who are notable because they care about their fellow citizens and selflessly show they care by donating their personal time and energy in bettering their community.

This year’s recipient of the Agnes Macphail Award is definitely an excellent example of a person who deeply cares about his community and shows it through his hard work in making it a safe place to live.

That person is

joe cooper watchdog Muhammad Masood Alam, a member of the East York community and a true representative of the Thorncliffe neighbourhood.

Originally a native of Pakistan, who immigrated to Canada from Dunbai in 2004 with his family, Alman has formed an active and productive relationship with his adopted country and community.

Originally coming to this country to provide his children with a good education and opportunities, Alman decided to do more than simply pursue his career in information technology.

Instead Alam asked himself what he could do for his adopted community and involved himself in not just one, but many volunteer activities.

As a result he became

involved in a number of public safety programs and became actively involved with forming an on-going and productive relationship with the police officers at 53 Division.

Not stopping at that, Alam has also worked as a program administrator at the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office.

Through his work Alam has worked hard to raise awareness about gang violence, domestic violence, street and high-rise safety, Internet bullying as well as a number of related issues.

He has also used his information technology knowledge to help people in his community, particularly seniors, to become more computer literate to help break down barriers to communications.

Yet while doing all of this work and effort, Alam has remained humble and selfeffacing despite the praise that has been directed at him for his contributions.

His motivation is simple and straight forward in that he feels that Canada is the best place in the world to live today and he wants to ensure that his community provides the best opportunity for its residents.

Certainly we can all learn a great deal from Alam’s attitudes and his contributions to his adopted country and community.

There has been a great deal of talk about Canadian values and their preservation over the years and frankly if there is an example of what those values are Alam is a perfect exemplar of them.

It was with a great deal of pride that I joined the audience at the Agnes Macphail Award in giving Alam a standing ovation when he received his award.

Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and community activist. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at eym@insidetoronto.com

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ohn Tory gets a lot of credit for fulfilling some pretty basic expectations as a mayor: he is diligent and compassionate, tries to be fair and at least attempts to apply common sense to organizational matters.

This was in great evidence on Monday, when he joined councillors and music industry representatives to report out on a trip they’d all taken to Austin, Texas.

He came back with the beginnings of a plan to boost Toronto’s music industry, promote tourism and attract high-tech jobs.

Good behaviour, good ideas, a consensus at the end of it.

At the same news conference, Tory dealt with some other issues — notably, a scathing critique by the Ombudsman, now departing, that he hadn’t done enough at council to ensure her office was adequately funded.

Tory seemed hurt that she would criticize him: he

david nickle the city had, after all, tried to whip the vote at council to boost the tiny office’s budget back to a more adequate funding level. He simply couldn’t persuade a majority of council to support his true plan.

Now looking at recent history, it is inconceivable that a mayor just a few months into his job would find himself unable to win a vote at council, and would have to resort to an unworkable compromise.

Tory has in recent months made it clear that he eschews that style of leadership, at least on council; that he values consensus over obedience.

It’s easy to call that weakness, but it would be nice to think it was evolutionary.

In the final year of the last term, after all, Scarborough-Agincourt Councillor Norm Kelly started that ball rolling

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The work will also include sidewalk repairs, installation of new concrete bus bays in curb lanes as well as tree and sod replacement. The work is expected to get underway in May and continue on until November with a detailed construction schedule to be distributed in April. Expect lane closures and the removal of street parking while the work takes place.

when he took over most of Mayor Ford’s duties at the behest of council.

Kelly spent the entire year well aware that he served at council’s pleasure, and often abandoned issues rather than try and whip the vote. It was clear that council enjoyed this consensus approach to governance – and if not much got done, well, not much got broken either.

Tory fits into this newly self-aware council well.

In the broad strokes, he pushes policies and ideas that appeal to the centrist majority on council, abandons difficult ideas like the contracting out of garbage when it seems they won’t fly, and most importantly, behaves himself.

It is a marvelous way to govern when one’s government is of one relatively sane mind. When it starts to leave the rails? Then Tory may find that expectations suddenly rise.

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The city and TTC unveiled new designs this week for community art murals which will appear on construction hoardings at Coxwell and Woodbine stations.

The murals were completed with the assistance of youth artists part of the mentorship program City on the Move, which is an undertaking organized by the TTC and city in conjunction with youth community agencies Arts for Children and Youth and Children’s Peace Theatre.

To see the designs check out www.toronto.ca/cityonthemove.ca

The TTC announced recently it’s giving the antiquated Scarborough RT trains a new look. Now the transit commission is taking the line out of commission for a few weekends to refurbish the service.

The closures are intended to increase the operating life of the RT trains, which recently passed 30 years of service.

The trains were supposed to have been out of commission by now, but city council’s shift to a subway extension from light rail means the RT will have to run much longer than intended.

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Pole Walking Canada WHEN: 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: Mosaic Home Care Services and Community Resource Centre, CNIB, 1929 Bayview Ave., Suite 215H CONTACT: 416-322-7002 COST: Free Learn about pole walking. Demo.

Storytellers from Away WHEN: 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

WHERE: Danforth/Coxwell Branch Toronto Public Library, 1675 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: 416-393-7783 COST: Free; Drop in. All ages.

Visiting from Maine, Michael Parent brings stories and songs from his Franco-American heritage.

w Friday, March 27

Community Variety Show WHEN: 7 to 10 p.m. WHERE: Presteign-Woodbine United Church, 2538 St. Clair Ave. E. CONTACT: 416755-8352 COST: $7; $20/family Musical acts, skits, stories and dance.

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Sunday Afternoon Euchre WHEN: 12:30 to 3 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No.

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w Saturday, April 18

Peter Pan WHEN: today at 7 p.m. and April 19 at 1 p.m. WHERE: Presteign-Woodbine United Church, 2538 St. Clair Ave. E. CONTACT: 416-755-8352 COST: $10 and $5 children and seniors; Addditional service charge at the door.

Presteign-Woodbine Parkview Hills Youth Players present Peter Pan. All net proceeds go directly to charity. Tickets: www.presteignwoodbineuc.com.

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22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416-425-1714 COST: $6 Everyone welcome.

w Tuesday, March 31

East York Historical Society WHEN: 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Dr. CONTACT: Margaret McRae, 416-429-7821 COST: Free Speaker: Derek Rumball, Executive Director of the Bob

Main Square Community Centre, 245 Main St. CONTACT: Victoria Burns, 416-693-9300 COST: $1.25 Euchre for seniors 55+. Novice players are welcome.

Coxwell Ave. CONTACT: Indra Moffett, 416-640-6307 COST: Free Caregivers get an overview of Alzheimer’s.

w Thursday, April 9

East York Historical Society WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Dr. CONTACT: Margaret McRae, 416429-7821, www.eastyork.org/eyhs. html, eyhs@eastyork.org COST: Free View photos of heritage properties.

Growing Native Plants WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Leaside Public Library, 165 McRae Dr. CONTACT: bethparker@sympatico.ca COST: Free Paul LaPorte’ shares information on navite plants.

w Saturday, April 11

Rumball Centre for the Deaf. Topic: the centre and their work with the deaf.

Live Music and Dancing WHEN: 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 22 22, 1240 Woodbine Ave. CONTACT: Jim Farrell, 416 425 1714 COST: Free Versatile musician David Wildsmith.

w Wednesday, April 1

w Sunday, April 12

Annual Juried Art Show and Sale WHEN: Noon to 4 p.m. WHERE: Todmorden Mills Papermill Gallery, 67 Pottery Rd. CONTACT: Margie Wagner, margie@thewgners.ca COST: Free Willowdale Group of Artists features mateur and professional works. Reception and awards ceremony: today from 6 to 9 p.m.

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Spring Breakfast WHEN: 8:30 to 10 a.m. WHERE: Presteign-Woodbine United Church, 2538 St. Clair Ave. E. CONTACT: 416755-8352 COST: $10; net proceeds to charity Choir serves breakfast of eggs, pancakes, bacon, muffins and more.

w Tuesday, April 14

Dementia 101 Workshop WHEN: 4 to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: South East Toronto Family Health Team, 840

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Canadian Federation of University Women WHEN: 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Northlea United Church, 125 Brentcliffe Rd. CONTACT: Pat Price, 416-385-1055, COST: Free Topic: Marjorie Mason, Garden Commentator.

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East York minor hockey players compete for Little Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup is coming to East York.

The East York Hockey Association is hosting its Little Stanley Cup Day this Saturday at East York Memorial Arena.

The Little Stanley Cup is an actual three-foot replica of the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup. It’s the only authorized replica allowed to be used for a hockey league’s championship. Authority for the Little Stanley

Former EYCI varsity hockey player locks in with the Canucks At one point when he attended East York Collegiate, the only hockey being played by Chris Tanev was for his school team, not even able to make any of the top midget rep teams in the city.

Improbably, however, he still eventually forged his path to the National Hockey League as a free agent signing for the Vancouver Canucks. He’s now been with the Canucks a half decade, the last two years as a regular after spending the first three years up and down with their farm team. This week, the stay-at-home defenceman was rewarded with a five-year contract reported to be worth $22.25-million.

“Chris has developed into an excellent NHL defenceman and is an extremely important part of our team,” said Canucks General Manager, Jim Benning, in a team release.

Cup was obtained directly from Clarence Campbell when he was president of the NHL in the 1950s.

The Little Stanley Cup was first played for in East York hockey’s 19541955 season.

The event marks the last day of house league hockey for the East York Hockey Association.

Divisions competing include midget, bantam, peewee, novice, atom, tyke and the hockey school.

Anyone is welcome to watch the hockey action. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

East York Memorial Arena is located at 888 Cosburn Ave., just east of Woodbine Avenue.

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Heritage preservation process is too cumbersome to be effective: proponents City needs to address backlog of heritage property nominations and put the onus on developers to prove why they can’t reuse a building, say historians DOMINIK KUREK dkurek@insidetoronto.com

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roponents of preserving local historical architecture say the process to designate heritage properties in Toronto is too complicated and slow to be effective and is often trumped by the desire to intensify.

It’s why buildings such as Stollerys, a 114-year-old downtown building that housed a clothing store, was cleared for demolition in January before preservation advocates could get the property designated as a heritage building, said Scarborough archivist Rick Schofield.

“There’s a huge backlog of buildings that could be threatened and we want to have them listed (on the city’s inventory of heritage properties), not designated. As a result, things like the Stollerys building were demolished because it wasn’t listed.”

Properties listed on the inventory are flagged by the city’s Heritage Preservation Services for review when applications for municipal permits or approvals are made. Property owners must provide 60 days’ notice of intent to demolish. Getting on the list is the first step towards city staff ultimately seeking to designate the property under the Ontario Heritage Act, giving it long-term protection against any devel-

opment that may adversely of the Smith home, which was affect the property’s heritage in a terrible state. attributes.

“Those homes belonged to Schofield said Scarborough are our forbearers,” Harris said. is lucky its important heritage “Those are the generations buildings had been listed on who did all the hard work, the former municipality’s heriphysically, of cutting down the tage registry, preserving them trees and creating the towns in the amalgamated city. and the streets that we have Before amalgamation, to get today. It honours them a registry listing, all a person and it gives us examples needed was to provide an that we can use when address and a reason why a teaching about what it property should be listed. Now, used to be like.” even though any citizen can Preservation architect nominate a property for the Catherine Nasmith said inventory list, the process to heritage properties are do so is complicated and time under threat because the consuming, requiring much system to protect them is research to prepare it. wrong, saying conservaIn the west, preservation tion should be seen as an advocate Denise Harris said environmental issue.

Toronto currently is more “I think we should be moving away from having a list of the proactive in preser ving ‘special ones’ and we really heritage buildings than the former city of Etobicoke was, need to think about all the but there’s such a backlog of buildings in the city, not just nominations for the through a cultural inventory list that lens, but through

BY THE the city’s Heritage an environmental Preservation lens,” she said.

Services can’t get “ We shouldn’t through without be throwing additional staffperfectly good ing. buildings in the Properties currently listed in garbage.”

Despite the city’s inventory of heritage this, she said Nasmith properties. the city today said 20 to 35 would likely per cent of not have all landfill Toronto properties allowed waste is designated under the Ontario Heritage Act. building several waste, and properties that constructo be demolished that tion accounts Properties expected to be Etobicoke did for 50 per cent added to the inventory in before. Among of all the natuthe next two years as the city rolls out new heritage those is the 1797ral resources districts. built home of Lt. humans conCol. Samuel Smith sume. *All approximate. Source: in Long Branch, To o m u c h Heritage Preservation Services which was likely energy, time and physical resources the second oldest home in the city, right are spent to build a after the Scadding Cabin, built property for it to go to waste, in 1794, which is preserved she said. today.

Preser vation groups Harris said the council of shouldn’t be scrambling to save the day couldn’t see the value a building from demolition,

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Nasmith said.

“It should be the other way around. Developers should have to prove why they can’t reuse a building.”

When a municipal council refuses a demolition permit, the city has to prove to the OMB why the building has heritage value and why its value outweighs the potential benefits of governmentsanctioned intensification, she said.

But, there are victories, too, such as the Weston Heritage Conservation District (WHCD), where an entire community was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act. Designation was split into three phases, due to the neighbourhood’s size, with the first phase, consisting of 114 homes, getting designated in 2007. Work on Phases 2 and 3 is ongoing.

The district preserves the streetscapes, allowing homeowners to make interior changes to their properties, some of which are more than 150 years old.

“In Weston, it’s meant to be a community building exercise, not a community dividing exercise,” said WHCD president Cherri Hurst.

Above, the 1797-built home of Lt. Col. Samuel Smith in Long Branch in 1955 not long before it was demolished. At left, Church Street in Weston in 1910, now preserved as part of the Weston Heritage Preservation District.

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Designations are an expensive and timeconsuming challenge JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com

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s much as heritage designations can add to the character of a neighbourhood and provide links to Toronto’s past, there’s little question they can provide headaches for developers.

Projects that are approved on heritage sites can prolong work times and ramp up costs as workers have to work around the protected building. In some cases, a heritage designation can even scuttle a project after a developer has invested time and money on a site.

The Wesley Mimico Place project – which will see the historic Wesley Mimico United Church site redeveloped to include 30 seniors residences, community space and a smaller church space at 2 Station Rd. in Etobicoke – is in the midst

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I don’t think it’s acting in good faith to use heritage to try to control the development process.

It’s an abuse of power.

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of grappling with the former problems.

The project will see much of the church, which was first built in 1923, preserved – albeit at no small cost.

“It’s added about $650,000 worth of costs to the project,” said Deirdre Gibson of Robert Reimers Architect Ltd., the firm tasked with the redesign. “We have to replace copper with copper. We’re taking out old bricks, cleaning them and reinstating them.”

Wesley Mimico United Church was adamant the original church building be

largely preserved.

Another challenge was the fact that the City of Toronto’s own Heritage Preservation Services are, in Gibson’s estimation, woefully understaffed.

“The city staff at Heritage Preservation Services want to be helpful and they love their heritage buildings, but there aren’t enough of them,” she said.

She added that the Etobicoke York Community Heritage Preservation Panel were extremely helpful in moving the project along, writing letters of support. Still, the lack of staffing made for slow going at times.

“It’s been a three-year journey and we wish it hadn’t been,” Gibson said.

For developer Sam Mizrahi, a last-minute bid for a heritage designation nearly put an end to his proposed “The

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The former Stollerys is now a busy construction site.

One” project at 1 Bloor St. W. on the site of the former Stollerys men’s wear store.

Councillor Kristyn WongTam started the process to have the building designated a few months after Mizrahi purchased it in October.

“We did over a year of investigating and due diligence before we bought the site and (heritage designation) was never even on the radar,” Mizrahi said.

“Any time we asked about it, the response we got was indifference.”

Mizrahi secured the proper demolition permits and began tearing down the Stollerys building legally, shortly after

word of the move to preserve the building got out. He finds it suspicious, to say the least, that no move was made to preserve the building and no attention was paid to its potential historic value until after his company purchased the land.

He said he believes heritage designation is often used as a cudgel to thwart developers as opposed to a means of protecting buildings that have architectural value.

“I don’t think it’s acting in good faith to use heritage to try to control the development process,” he said. “It’s an abuse of power.”

THE CITY’S PERSPECTIVE

The pace of development may surpass city’s ability to evaluate properties, Heritage Toronto CEO says >>>from page 1 ing – it is iconic. If it were to become a glass and steel condo, the heart of the community would be ripped out.

It wouldn’t look like Davisville anymore.”

Matlow said he is hoping a heritage designation on the site will help keep that heart in its place. But of course it’s no guarantee. A successful appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) by a deep-pocketed developer can still see that designation overturned.

It is better than nothing, however. Toronto has an inventory of about 10,000 heritage properties, with a two-thirds of those designated. When a property has no protection, whatever its heritage value may

be, owners can demolish the building in short order.

Consider the Stollerys story.

The demolition shocked many but was entirely lawful.

A city review of the property’s heritage value would have taken some time. City staff cannot say exactly how long the list is of sites nominated – but not yet reviewed – for the inventory, but Heritage Toronto CEO Francisco Alvarez estimated the list is about 1,500 long.

Until earlier this month, the city only had two staff to sift through those applications – some made by city councillors, but many by residents.

And it could take years until a site was simply listed, nev-

ermind put through the more rigorous process for designation.

In the 2015 budget, Toronto council approved adding eight

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Councillor Josh Matlow at the Davisville Starbucks.

planning staff to move matters along more quickly: specifically, to begin studying properties on a neighbourhood-wide basis, to create so-called Heritage Conservation Districts where many properties would be preserved.

But even with the additional resources, nothing will happen quickly. There are 16 neighbourhoods that have put in a request, and over the next year the increased staff will only be able to approve three or four.

“Given the pace of development in Toronto right now, it still might not be enough to provide the level of customer service to individuals and developers,” Alvarez said.

“The delays mean we may lose

buildings, particularly residential buildings, that don’t get evaluated in time to get onto the list.”

Earlier this year, Matlow convinced councillors to seek another way to speed historical designations up, by creating a third designation for historic properties that would list properties of possible historic significance as “identified.” Any plans to redevelop those properties would have to wait 60 days for an assessment.

Also on the books is a plan to lessen the ability of the OMB to reverse or disallow heritage designations. That report is expected in June.

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Woman, 88, dies after being struck by vehicle backing into driveway An 88-year-old woman is dead after being struck by a car that was backing into the driveway of an East York home.

Police said a 28-year-old man was reversing his 2010 Ford Mustang into the driveway, on Torrens Avenue near Donlands Avenue, just before 1 a.m.

Friday. The 88-year-old was hit by the reversing vehicle.

She was taken to hospital where she

was later pronounced dead.

Second fatality this month The woman is the second elderly pedestrian to be struck and killed by a car in East York this month.

On March 10, Athanasios “Tom” Dimovitis was hit by a westbound Chevrolet Cruze out front of his house

at 452 Mortimer Ave. He died in hospital the following day.

Dimovitis was a retired baker and longtime East York resident.

The name of the victim from Friday’s accident was not released by the police.

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