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Heritage Ottawa Booklet on Terra Cotta Funded by Ontario Trillium Foundation Heritage Ottawa NEWSLETTER Dedicated to Preserving Our Built Heritage Spring 2003 Volume 30, No. 1 of the We advocated having the President’s Report municipality provide a special category by David B. Flemming in the plan for the heritage properties The past four months have been busy under its control and use, and urged ones for heritage in Ottawa and for that it consider the adaptive re-use of your Board of Directors. The Ontario existing heritage buildings for municipal Government is proposing changes to the purposes before leasing or building. Ontario Heritage Act and the City of We also suggested the establishment of a Ottawa is engaged in a process leading heritage plaque program to commemorate to the production of numerous plans and interpret buildings and streetscapes, including a Heritage Plan and an other than those designated under the Official Plan, and a Downtown Urban Ontario Heritage Act. The municipality Design Strategy, all of which contain should also work closely with local directions and policies relating to the school boards in placing more emphasis City’s build heritage. Heritage Ottawa on using local heritage elements and has been involved in numerous consul- resources in school curricula. tation meetings and workshops relating The City’s draft Official Plan to these plans and we have submitted contains much of interest to those detailed responses to the various drafts concerned with our built heritage. It of each. Participation in the planning outlines the planning and development process is crucial if we are to have an regulations relating to all aspects of effect on how the City cares for its zoning and heritage protection. The James D.Georgiles heritage resources, especially the second draft of the plan incorporated preservation of its built heritage. The Confederation Building casts its many of the suggestions which H.O. Numerous advocacy issues relating reflection on the Bank of Canada, Ottawa submitted on the first draft. Recent to the Nicholas/Waller/Laurier triangle, events led Heritage Ottawa to the former Caplan’s Department Store recommend more stringent regulations building on Rideau Street and high-rise concerning density transfers, applications proposals by Ashcroft Homes Limited The Planning for minor variances and the criteria for for Centretown have resulted in action reviewing development applications. by Heritage Ottawa. Season Heritage Ottawa supports the The past few months have been by David B. Flemming re-establishment of the Design Review a learning experience for your new Committee, comprised of professional President. I have been helped in my ur response to the Ontario architects and urban designers, to ensure “education” by Past-President Heritage Act review was to that design criteria are followed in new Carolyn Quinn, who despite her five O support amendments which: (a) developments. The Committee should years of work as President, continues to would provide municipalities with include members who have professional show a keen interest and zeal for the the power to prevent demolition of heritage expertise to ensure that the preservation of Ottawa’s built heritage. designated heritage properties and (b) design of new developments is sensitive As we approach the 2003 Annual provide support for municipalities in to, and compatible with, nearby General Meeting, we hope to begin cataloguing and documenting their heritage resources. implementation of a re-organization heritage buildings. In the Heritage Plan and revitalization of Heritage Ottawa. consultation, we sought to have cultural More news on that front at a later date. landscapes included as an integral part Continued on page 2 1 Planning Continued… The Lépine Affair by David B. Flemming Our response to the Ontario Heritage Act or more than a decade, plans review was to support were devised for the development F of the Nicholas/Waller/Laurier amendments which would triangle, also known as civic address - provide municipalities 50 Laurier Avenue East. The City of Ottawa, National Capital Commission, with the power to prevent Heritage Ottawa and Action Sandy Hill demolition of designated were involved in discussion of how to develop the NCC-owned property and heritage properties and to yet retain the five late 19th - early 20th provide support for munici- century homes on the site. In the fall of investigated. Your President and 2001, NCC agreed to sell the site to Past-President were interviewed exten- palities in cataloguing Groupe Lépine, a Montreal based sively in both the electronic and print and documenting their development company which agreed to media, calling upon the City to take incorporate four of the buildings (one of quick and decisive action against the heritage buildings. which has municipal heritage designation) developer for neglect and destruction in a 212 unit high rise apartment building. of the buildings. Nearly three months Preservation of the four buildings was later, the City has yet to recommend a In view of the sad loss of two made a condition of the Site Plan course of action to Council although it historic buildings in the Nicholas/ Approval Agreement. The City waived is expected that such a recommenda- Waller/Laurier triangle, described all permit fees for the developer and the tion will be forthcoming by early March in the article “Lépine Affair” published Committee of Adjustment allowed the of this year. in this issue, Heritage Ottawa recom- addition of six more stories after the Although Ottawa’s Development mends, that in any development initial agreement had been signed. Services Department has stated its which involves the relocation or partial The four buildings were moved intent to fine the developer for the retention of a heritage building, the from their original foundations to permit destruction of the two buildings without developer should have to provide a construction of portions of the modern a demolition permit, the maximum financial security to the City. This building and were moved back onto the fine permissible represents only an security or bond, would be a condition site in October 2002. During the insignificant fraction of the total value of the Site Plan Control agreement and evening of November 13-14, one of the of the development. Heritage Ottawa would be an amount determined by a buildings suddenly collapsed and the has written to the General Manager qualified restoration architect. It should next day the developer demolished of Development Services and the be sufficient to ensure the completion another, having deemed it in imminent Mayor and Councillors urging that the of the agreed upon stabilisation and danger of collapse. Before City develop- developer be fined in accordance with restoration work. ment officials had time to examine the the value of the loss of the two buildings site, the developer has removed all and to include in the new Official Plan, remnants of the two buildings. a clause which would require developers Heritage Ottawa immediately in similar situations to post a significant called for the City to issue a stop-work financial security as a condition of the Heritage Ottawa order on the site while this matter was Site Plan Control agreement. NEWSLETTER Heritage Ottawa is a non-profit Annual General Meeting organization dedicated to advocating the preservation, restoration, and Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. adaptive re-use of the National Guest Speaker – Stuart Lazear Capital’s built and natural heritage. Senior Heritage Planner, City of Ottawa Editor: James D. Georgiles Graphic Designer: Jan Soetermans Rockcliffe Park Community Centre 380 Springfield Road Printing: Tina & Company (Free parking available on site) 2 Caplan Building Update by David B. Flemming he on-again/off-again plans to of the Local Architectural Conservation T develop 135 Rideau Street, the Advisory Committee contained in Item former Caplan’s Department 6 of the Agenda for today’s meeting. Store has been well chronicled in these Heritage Ottawa supports the staff The Caplan Building facade. pages (Heritage Ottawa Newsletter, recommendation that the application to Marshal and City Council could see fit Winter 200, Vol.27, No.2, pp.1-3). After demolish 135 Rideau Street be refused to order demolition. lying empty for many years, in January based on the historical significance of Next Monday evening, the 2003, the owner Canril Corporation the building as an integral part of the City Council will present Ottawa applied for a demolition permit for the Byward Market Heritage Conservation Architectural Conservation Awards to building as a result of a repair or demol- District and as one of the last remaining 15 deserving individuals, companies and ish order by the Fire Marshal. City staff vestiges of the historic retail/commercial organizations in recognition of excel- and LACAC recommended that the tradition of Rideau Street. The former lence in restoration, adaptive re-use and application be refused. Planning and location of Caplan’s Department Store, infill as it relates to our built heritage. Development Committee considered the this building represents the history of By rejecting the application for demoli- matter on February 13 and after along retail business in Ottawa and the expan- tion of the Caplan building, the debate and the defeat of three amend- sion of smaller dry goods shops to larger Committee and Council will be making ments which would have approved the department stores during the first a bold assertion of the priority of heritage demolition permit, the Committee decades of the 20th century . Despite it preservation in our new “smart” City; a supported the staff decision to refuse the deteriorated condition, the Caplan statement more meaningful than words application and directed that City staff building is also a very good example of in an Official Plan or a replica of a work with the property owner to find the architectural style which was popular facade of a long demolished building.
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