Last time we looked at what might be coming in the province鈥檚 new housing-focussed 鈥減olicy instrument.鈥1聽Now it 鈥 the proposed new Provincial Planning Statement 鈥 is here!
Lost in the 鈥渂omb鈥 of Bill 23 and the ensuing fury, a different provincial government initiative threatens to undermine another vital part of Ontario鈥檚 heritage protection regime.
Bill 23 and the ERO
Bill 23: This Game of Chicken Will Have a Bad Ending [1]
Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022, takes a sledgehammer to key parts of the Ontario Heritage Act and Ontario鈥檚 cultural heritage protection system.1
One of the more insidious proposals 鈥 not getting nearly enough attention in the slew of outrageous changes 鈥 takes aim at how we define cultural heritage itself.
It鈥檚 almost Orwellian.
Juggling Heritage and Accessibility
As part of a farewell tribute to the Conservation Review Board 鈥 now swallowed whole by the Ontario Land Tribunal 鈥 we鈥檙e digging into some of the Review Board鈥檚 recent decisions in so-called legacy cases. (Note that most if not all of these have been authored by a single CRB, now OLT, member, Daniel Nelson.)1
attribute ~
something attributed as belonging to a person, thing, group, etc.; a quality, character, characteristic, or property
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The clock has run down on Ontario鈥檚 Conservation Review Board, a fixture for 46 years of our heritage protection regime. Along with the Ontario Heritage Trust, the CRB was one of our two cultural heritage-focused provincial agencies.聽
We should be sorry to see it go.
Happy Heritage Week!
In 2019 the province passed Bill 108 (the More Homes, More Choices Act), a developer-friendly grab-bag of changes including amendments to the Ontario Heritage Act.1