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HERITAGE PLACES 2.0 PLACES HERITAGE Poten�al Heritage Conserva�on Districts in the City of London Parts of this report may be reproduced on the condition that proper reference is made to the City of London and Letourneau Heritage Consulting Inc. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of: Letourneau Heritage Consulting Inc. Project Personnel Gordon Robinson, BSc BA Amy Barnes, MA CAHP Zack Hamm, MA Marcus Letourneau, PhD Dipl(PACS) MCIP RPP CAHP Edgar Tumak, MA Christienne Uchiyama, MA CAHP City of London Staff Gregg Barrett, Manager - Long Range Planning and Research Laura Dent, Heritage Planner Kyle Gonyou, Heritage Planner Krista Gowan, Heritage Planner Ryan Nemis, Urban Design Technician Wyatt Rotteau, Urban Design Technician Jim Yanchula, Manager - Urban Regeneration August 2019 CONTENTS A INTRODUCTION 4 B BACKGROUND 5 C APPROACH 7 D IDENTIFICATION OF AREAS 9 E PRIORITIZATION OF AREAS 10 F AREA CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES 13 01 North Talbot 16 08 OLD NORTH 630 02 SOHO (SOUTH OF HORTON) 18 09 ORCHARD PARK SHERWOOD FOREST 32 03 THE SMOKESTACK DISTRICT 20 10 LAMBETH 34 04 STANLEY-BECHER-RIVERFORKS 22 11 HAMILTON ROAD 36 05 OLD EAST VILLAGE-DUNDAS STREET 24 12 BRAEMAR CRESCENT 38 06 PICCADILLY 26 13 HALL'S MILLS 40 07 OLD SOUTH II 28 14 POND MILLS 42 APPENDIX HERITAGE CONSERVATION DISTRICT DESIGNATION PROCESS 44 REFERENCES 46 A Introduction London is known as ‘The Forest is a collective legacy. Statement, the Ontario Heritage City’ – a city which prides itself on It should be no surprise then that, Act, and the City has a new official its parks, greenery and tree-lined as of November 2018, London ranks plan (The London Plan); these streets. It is also recognized as a ‘city 3rd in the Province with the highest updates impact the identification of communities’ – a city that defines number of designated heritage and evaluation of cultural heritage itself by the many differentiated conservation districts (HCD). London resources. neighbourhoods that dot its has seven HCDs– tied with Hamilton landscapes; rural neighbourhoods, also having seven – and is behind Moving forward, the following urban neighbourhoods, outer and Ottawa with eighteen and Toronto document, Heritage Places 2.0 is inner suburbs, and areas with with twenty HCDs. Further, London has intended to be a reset of the original industrial and institutional qualities. the 2nd most number of properties Heritage Places and to take a second These special, unique places help to designated in HCDs (just over 3,700); look at this document. There is make London legible – it is readable; behind only Toronto with nearly 5,000. now the opportunity to expand the meaning that people understand it Londoners are plainly passionate review of the City to see if there visually and can make sense of it as about their City’s cultural heritage! was anything missed in the original a whole. In The Image of the City, Heritage Places, and to also begin to notable urban planner Kevin Lynch Back in 1993, the original Heritage establish a sense of priority to what called this ‘imageability’ which he Places: A Description of Potential areas should be studied first. It is attributes to helping to enhance Heritage Conservation Areas in the important to recognize that the areas people’s attachments to ‘place’ and City of London began the process of that are identified inHeritage Places community, and helping to support identifying areas in the City that may 2.0 are not being identified as future a committed citizenry. A major have potential cultural heritage value HCDs, but rather are being noted as component of a community’s ‘sense of or interest. In the twenty years since worthy of further study as potential place’ is its relationship to its cultural its adoption as a guideline document heritage conservation districts in the heritage and landscape setting. to the City of London’s Official Plan, future. This may lead to designation Cultural heritage is an important ten of the original fourteen potential as an HCD under Part V of the Ontario community resource. It is a source of Heritage Conservation Districts have Heritage Act – however designation is knowledge and memory. It contributes been designated. There have also a separate process beyond the scope to the quality of life of a community. It been updates to the Provincial Policy of this document. 4 B BACKGROUND In 1993, Heritage Places: A Description Characterization studies were intended sequential process based on episodic of Potential Heritage Conservation to act as an indicator of heritage re-prioritizations of areas identified in Areas in the City of London, was significance, but were never meant Heritage Places. approved as a guideline document to to be an exhaustive review reflecting the Official Plan of the City of London. all areas within the City. Place name, Since the adoption of Heritage Places, Heritage Places (1993) states that: location, and historic themes were the planning and policy framework identified for each of the fourteen for heritage conservation in Ontario “[t]he purpose of this areas. Consideration was given to has undergone substantial changes, guideline document is to identification and evaluation of including most notably revisions to “highlight areas of outstanding potential HCDs based on criteria in the the Ontario Heritage Act in 2005, the historical, architectural and Official Plan, but the list remained un- Provincial Policy Statement in 2014, natural character in the prioritized. The original list of fourteen and at the municipal level, adoption City. The intent is to identify areas was as follows (in no particular of The London Plan in 2016. Given candidate areas for potential order): Richmond Streetscape; Ridout changes to heritage conservation heritage conservation or Restoration; Talbot North; East planning and policy framework, and district status through the Woodfield; West Woodfield; Lorne the accomplishments of the original implementation of Parts IV Avenue; Wortley Village; Marley Place; Heritage Places, it is an opportune and V of the Ontario Heritage Elmwood Avenue; Stanley-Becher; time to revisit and reset this original Act” (p3). Hellmuth-St. James; Grosvenor-St. guideline document. Ultimately, George; Petersville; and, Pond Mills. the goal of Heritage Places 2.0 is This document has been the primary to build on the original document, reference to identify candidate areas A report for the London Advisory reflecting a similar format and focus in the City of London for potential Committee on Heritage (March 1999) on ‘characterization studies’ while also heritage conservation district was the first to prioritize potential clarifying a process to identify and designation. HCDs, and this list has been amended, prioritize candidate areas for further expanded, consolidated, and re- study as potential HCDs. Fourteen areas were originally prioritized over time. The City has identified withinHeritage Places since dealt with requests for HCD based on ‘characterization studies’. designation from the community in a 5 6 C APPROACH Process Overview Policy Context conservation districts (HCD), it does however include HCDs within At its meeting on January 16, 2017, Since the adoption of Heritage Places, its definition of cultural heritage Municipal Council directed Civic there have been substantial changes landscapes, as follows: Section 2.6.1 Administration “to review [the] to land use planning associated with of the PPS directs that “significant prioritized list of potential heritage resources that demonstrate, or have built heritage resources and significant conservation districts and to the potential to demonstrate, cultural cultural heritage landscapes shall be recommend an update to Heritage heritage value or interest. In Ontario, conserved.” “Significant” is defined Places.” Subsequently, in March 2018, cultural heritage is considered to be a in the PPS as, in regards to cultural Letourneau Heritage Consulting (LHC) matter of provincial interest. Cultural heritage and archaeology, “resources was retained to prepare the updated heritage resources are managed that have been determined to have Heritage Places 2.0 document. The under provincial legislation, policy, cultural heritage value or interest for objectives of the update have been regulations, and guidelines. The the important contribution they make to conduct a comprehensive, city- Ontario Heritage Act (OHA) directly to our understanding of the history of wide review of areas, and prepare addresses cultural heritage and a place, and event, or a people.” a prioritized list for further study is the key legislation enabling the of these area as potential heritage protection of properties of cultural Ontario Heritage Act conservation districts (HCDs) – heritage value or interest at the pursuant to Part V of the Ontario municipal and provincial levels. The The Ontario Heritage Act (OHA) Heritage Act. The intention has Planning Act, through the Provincial does not specifically set out policies been to essentially reset the original Policy Statement – 2014 (PPS), also to identify potential heritage Heritage Places to reflect current addresses cultural heritage as an area conservation districts (HCDs), however Provincial legislation, City policies, of provincial interest. These acts and the OHA enables local municipalities Council direction and community policies indicate broad support for the to designate HCDs provided the interest. LHC was tasked with the conservation of cultural heritage by requirements of the OHA are met following: the Province.