{"id":862,"date":"2023-05-31T16:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T16:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/?p=862"},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T16:28:39","slug":"aco-comments-on-the-proposed-provincial-planning-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/aco-comments-on-the-proposed-provincial-planning-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"ACO comments on the Proposed Provincial Planning Statement."},"content":{"rendered":"

PPS Media Release final May 29<\/a><\/p>\n

May 29, 2023<\/p>\n

Proposed Provincial Planning Statement will bulldoze Ontario’s heritage, ACO<\/strong>
\nwarns:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Still reeling over Bill 23’s changes to the Ontario Heritage Act, which make it almost impossible
\nto save many Black, Indigenous, racialized, and 2SLGBTQIA heritage sites from harm, heritage
\nadvocates are appalled at the proposed new Provincial Planning Statement (PPS).<\/p>\n

The PPS sets the policy framework for decisions about land use planning and development in
\nthe province. As drafted, the new PPS limits protection of Ontario’s heritage to \u201cprotected
\nheritage property\u201d — those sites already identified and designated under the Ontario Heritage
\nAct. While shaking her head at this seeming redundancy, Architectural Conservancy Ontario
\nBoard Chair Diane Chin fears it could bring on a new era of bulldozing cultural heritage
\nresources. These irreplaceable resources include our communities\u2019 heritage buildings,
\nstructures such as bridges, cultural heritage landscapes, and other historic places.<\/p>\n

If “protected heritage property” is so narrowly defined, “Ontario’s heritage could be decimated,”
\nsaid Chin. “We could be left with about one heritage property for every 500 people.1 How can
\nmunicipalities benefit from the community health and wellbeing, tourism spending and
\naffordable housing that come with heritage buildings, if they are all allowed to be destroyed, no
\nquestions asked?”<\/p>\n

At the very least, ACO feels properties listed on a municipality’s Heritage Register — meaning
\nproperties which are potential candidates for full designation — should be included under
\n“protected heritage property” in the new Provincial Planning Statement. Since many heritage
\nplaces have yet to be identified, ideally there would be a mechanism, as there is now, for
\nmaking last-minute additions to the list of protected heritage properties when unforeseen new
\ndevelopment plans emerge.<\/p>\n

ACO also wants to see the new PPS adopt clear policies promoting the retention and re-use of
\nOntario\u2019s existing building stock for housing and other purposes. \u201cWe understand, and fully<\/p>\n

1 Roughly 33,000 properties in Ontario’s 444 municipalities have been designated under Part IV (for individual properties) and Part V (heritage
\nconservation districts) of the Ontario Heritage Act
\nsupport, the need for more affordable housing in Ontario,” said Chin. “What we don’t understand
\nis how bulldozing perfectly sound heritage buildings is required to achieve that. We’ve been
\ntrying to have this conversation with the Minister in charge of heritage, Michael Ford, for months
\nnow.”<\/p>\n

In the meantime, ACO is encouraging Ontarians to write their MPPs about their concerns, as
\nwell as Minister Michael Ford, MMAH Minister Steve Clark, and Premier Doug Ford, and to
\ncomment on the Provincial Planning Statement proposals on the Environmental Registry of
\nOntario before Friday June 5: https:\/\/ero.ontario.ca\/notice\/019-6813<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Contact: Diane Chin, President, Architectural Conservancy Ontario:
\npresident@acontario.ca<\/p>\n

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PPS Media Release final May 29 May 29, 2023 Proposed Provincial Planning Statement will bulldoze Ontario’s heritage, ACO warns: Still reeling over Bill 23’s changes to the Ontario Heritage Act, which make it almost impossible to save many Black, Indigenous, racialized, and 2SLGBTQIA heritage sites from harm, heritage advocates are appalled at the proposed new …<\/p>\n

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