Item - 2021.PB25.12

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

1.  City Council state its intention to designate the property at 183 Avenue Road under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, in accordance with the Statement of Significance: 183 Avenue Road (Reasons for Designation) attached as Attachment 3 to the report (June 14, 2021) from the Senior Manager, Heritage Planning, Urban Design, City Planning.

2.  If there are no objections to the designation in accordance with the Ontario Heritage Act, City Council authorize the City Solicitor to introduce the necessary bill in Council.

3.  If there are objections in accordance with the Ontario Heritage Act, City Council direct the City Clerk to refer the proposed designation to the Conservation Review Board.

4.  If the designation is referred to the Conservation Review Board, City Council authorize the City Solicitor and appropriate staff to attend any hearing held by the Conservation Review Board in support of Council's decision to designate the property.

Liz McFarland, Planner, Heritage Preservation, Urban Design, City Planning gave a presentation on Intention to Designate under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act - 183 Avenue Road.

This report recommends that City Council state its intention to designate the listed property at 183 Avenue Road (Edward G. Woodley House) under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act for its cultural heritage value.

The subject property at 183 Avenue Road is situated on the east side of the street, between Pears Avenue and Davenport Road. It contains a three storey, late Victorian-era, red brick house-form building constructed in 1901. The building is amongst the earliest surviving house-form buildings constructed together with the adjacent heritage properties at 177-181 Avenue Road on this portion of the east side of Avenue Road at the turn of the 20th-century, and representing the earliest period in the historical evolution of Avenue Road.

Heritage Planning staff have undertaken further research and evaluation and determined that the heritage property at 183 Avenue Road meets Ontario Regulation 9/06, the criteria prescribed for municipal designation under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act under all three categories of design, associative and contextual values. As such, the property is a significant built heritage resource.

Designation enables City Council to review proposed alterations for the property, enforce heritage property standards and maintenance, and refuse demolition.