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Cultural Heritage: a Primer Cultural Heritage: A Primer Planning & Infrastructure Services Committee November 16th, 2015 1 What is cultural heritage? 2 Key Legislation, Policies, Standards • Ontario Heritage Act • Ontario Planning Act • Municipal Act • Provincial Policy Statement • Brampton Official Plan • Brampton Strategic Plan • Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places 3 Municipal Heritage Register Two types of heritage status: 1) Listed OHA Section 27 (1.2) = 350 2) Designated OHA Section 29 (individual property) = 106 OHA Section 41 (Heritage Conservation District) = 1 (which contains 108 individual properties) 4 Municipal Heritage Register • Designated o Confers a legal status on a property by a specific city by-law under the OHA o Council can refuse application that will adversely affect property's heritage value/attributes o Subject to Heritage Permit processes o Eligible for grants and other incentives 5 Municipal Heritage Register • Listed o Property has cultural heritage value, but not designated o May be considered for designation under the OHA o Receives interim protection from demolition o Heritage staff review development and building applications affecting listed properties 6 Role of Municipal Council • Empowered under the Ontario Heritage Act to: o Establish a municipal heritage committee (BHB) o Designate individual property and districts o Issue or refuse permits to alter or demolish a designated property o Repeal designation by-laws o Provide grants and loans to designated property owners o Enter into easements and covenants with property owners o Purchase or lease individually designated property o Expropriate designated property 7 Role of a BHB and Heritage Staff Brampton Heritage Board Heritage Staff • Established under authority of OHA • Coordinate and administer the • 17 members (16 citizens, 1 heritage program Councillor) • Staff liaison to the BHB and its • Advise and recommend subcommittees • Provide knowledge and expertise • Provide sound and objective • Research advice and recommendations • Outreach and marketing • Stewards for future generations • Act as liaison between elected • Conserve best of old; encourage officials, organizational staff, best of new members of the public, and other • Manage change to ensure stakeholders conservation of the City’s cultural • Coordinate and convey community heritage resources concerns 8 Collaboration • Collaboration between Planning & Interconnected Building Corporate nature of various internal departments Division Comm heritage and external agencies • Multifaceted Economic HERITAGE • Benefits multiple initiatives Devp Office Enforce- Tourism & ment & Success based Film By-law Services on partnerships Services Office of Property Central Mngmt Area 9 Benefits of Heritage Conservation Source: English Heritage 10 Benefits of Cultural Heritage Resource Conservation 11 Dispelling Myths o Designation allows for additions or alterations o Contemporary additions are acceptable o Designation allows for changes to interior spaces o Designation allows for the redevelopment of a property o Buildings of any age can be designated o Designation does not restrict the use of a property o Designated properties perform better than average in real estate market o Heritage conservation is good for business o Heritage preservation is not expensive, neglect is 12 Brampton Heritage Success Stories 13 Questions? • “The one responsibility a city has is the encouragement of the possibility of excellence. It is not necessarily the city’s responsibility to achieve these goals, or to pay for them, but it is its job to make room for their possibility” - Macfarlane, quoted in Imagine a Toronto… Strategies for a Creative City. • Heritage preservation is one such possibility! 14 THE VALUE AND IMPACT OF HERITAGE AND THE HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT n gnifica t cont si rib a u s tio ke n a t m o Listed buildings ric places t to m h is s often generate i e h y r b U higher u d K e o t t c commercial a d TOURISM r e t s t value a a b Heritage attractions e e r g boost local economies REGENERATION / a a t i s r e DEVELOPMENT e s H s e n i s u b h t w o r g h g i H Investing in the Heritage is critical Interaction with the Visiting heritage historic environment to the ongoing local historic environment sites has a significant generates economic success of tourism helps young people impact on wellbeing returns for local as an export develop important general skills n o m r i e v n n e d and life u d industry places t e c n a a t r i h o u t l n o satisfaction a e h h t i n w o t t n c a e p m m e i g t a n Historic g a EDUCATION QUALITY n c e i environment f L i e / SKILLS g OF LIFE n construction skills a n g i r o Heritage s n l are critical to e in f voluteering a li s maintaining our g a a e can improve h b t s special places o o mental health te ut om Vis si heri n pr & wellbeing iting heritage tage ca Investment in the Refurbishing old buildings historic environment People who live raises pride in areas and l i reduces energy costs f f e o in areas with greater effic y n ie t i n i y c l rg y encourages social a e u n q historic environment e interaction s h Cultural heritage e t P are likely to have i v e o w is a critical o r stronger sense d p p e part of our l t e m of place i a ecosystem v u t a q i e l u ENVIRONMENTAL e e e Heritage develops e b r t SENSE OF t g connections between people h a o e n LIFE and groups in local areas h d d PLACE l i n u s a o t h o I e s n r c s v e i a o r c l u t l H a p e v i f e s t c i o r n l e v a m i c ron lo e me their n nt in t i n Involvement in h PERSONAL e heritage projects r DEVELOPMENT i t can improve people’s a g e sense of worth a id and self-esteem s pe t rso en nal developm Minutes Brampton School Traffic Safety Council Committee of the Council of The Corporation of the City of Brampton November 5, 2015 9:30 a.m. Council Committee Room 4th Floor – Brampton City Hall Members: Patrick Doran (Chair) Vishal Arora (Vice-Chair) Trustee Carrie Andrews, Peel District School Board Karla Bailey Charles Gonsalves Rakesh Joshi Max Kazman Mike Moffat Councillor Pat Fortini – Wards 7 and 8 Absent: Trustee Darryl D’Souza, Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (regrets) Manpreet Chaniana (regrets) Stephane Mukendi (regrets) George Startup (regrets) Staff, Agency and Organizational Representatives: Sue Finbow, Coordinator, Brampton Transit, Public Services Anna Gentile, Central Planning and Operations Officer, Student Transportation of Peel Region Craig Kummer, Manager of Traffic Engineering Services, Planning and Infrastructure Services Marcy Macina, East Planning and Operations Officer, Student Transportation of Peel Region Sergeant Fortunato Manvati, Regional Divisional Traffic Unit, Peel Regional Police Mike Mulick, Acting Manager, Enforcement and By-law Services, Corporate Services Violet Skirten, Crossing Guard Supervisor, Planning and Infrastructure Services Thomas Tsung, Manager of Maintenance Services, Peel District School Board Chandra Urquhart, Legislative Coordinator, Corporate Services Minutes Brampton School Traffic Safety Council 1. Approval of the Agenda SC087-2015 That the agenda for the Brampton School Traffic Safety Council Meeting of November 5, 2015, be approved, as amended, as follows: To add Items: 11.1 Update from Thomas Tsung, Manager of Maintenance Services, Peel District School Board, re: French Immersion New Centre – Boundary Changes – Grade I Class Caps and Maps (File BH.c). 15.3 Status report from Violet Skirten, Crossing Guard Supervisor, re: School Progress Activity Summary – September 2014 to June 2015 (File BH.c). 15.4 Discussion at the request of Councillor Pat Fortini, re: Manpreet Chaniana, Member – Attendance at Brampton School Traffic Safety Council Meetings. 15.5 Discussion at the request of Patrick Doran, Member, re: Safety Issues at Nelson Mandela Public School – 10125 Chinguacousy Road – Ward 6. Carried 2. Declarations of Pecuniary Interest - nil 3. Previous Minutes 3 1. Minutes – Brampton School Traffic Safety Council – October 8, 2015 The subject minutes were considered by Planning and Infrastructure Services Committee on October 19, 2015, and the recommendations were approved by Council on October 28, 2015. The minutes were provided for Committee’s information. 4. Delegations/Presentations - nil 5. Programs - Peel Safe and Active Routes to School Committee (PSARTS) - nil 2015 11 05 Page 2 of 15 Minutes Brampton School Traffic Safety Council 6. Program - School Travel Planning Program Below, for reference, is a list of schools participating in the School Travel Planning Program. Castlemore Public School – 9916 The Gore Road – Ward 10 Conestoga Public School – 300 Conestoga Drive – Ward 2 Beryl Ford Public School – 45 Ironshield Drive – Ward 10 Violet Skirten, Crossing Guard Supervisor, advised that Father C. W. Sullivan Catholic School has expressed interest in the School Travel Planning Program. 7. Program -Bicycle Parking Pilot Project Craig Kummer responded to questions regarding painted bicycle signs on McMurchy Avenue and advised that the signs are intended to promote cycling. He also responded on the possibility of allowing bike lanes on some portions of the boulevard on Williams Parkway and advised that the design of the boulevard will not accommodate bike lanes. 8. Program - Peel Regional Police - Safety Committee Violet Skirten, Crossing Guard Supervisor, advised that an update will be provided on the walk to school program following a meeting with the Safety Committee on November 12, 2015.
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