Item - 2019.PB5.5

The Toronto Preservation Board recommends to the Toronto and East York Community Council that:

1. City Council include the property at 1627 Danforth Avenue on the City of Toronto's Heritage Register in accordance with the Statement of Significance (Reasons for Inclusion), attached as Attachment 3 to the report (April 4, 2019) from the Senior Manager, Heritage Preservation Services, Urban Design, City Planning.

This report recommends that City Council include the property at 1627 Danforth Avenue on the City of Toronto's Heritage Register.  The site contains a complex known historically as the Danforth Carhouse, which is currently owned by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).  It was developed beginning in 1914 by the Toronto Civic Railways (TCR), expanded by the Toronto Transportation Commission (forerunner to today's TTC) and the Toronto Transit Commission and currently used as offices and staff facilities for Toronto Transit Commission personnel.   

In 2015, City Council requested that the property at 1627 Danforth Avenue be researched and evaluated for inclusion on the City of Toronto's Heritage Register.  It has been identified for its potential cultural heritage value in the Danforth Avenue Planning Study (2018). 

It is the selected site for a police station consolidating 54 and 55 Divisions. 

The property at 1627 Danforth Avenue is part of a Master Plan study being undertaken by CreateTO to guide the redevelopment of the site as a multi-use civic hub for the Toronto Transit Commission, the Toronto Police Service and the Toronto Public Library as the key anchor tenants, which will incorporate and adaptively reuse the Danforth Carhouse.