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ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
Date: January 15, 2003
Author/Local: Hlavach/6448
RTS No. 03150
CC File No. 113Council: January 28, 2003
TO:
City Council
FROM:
Director of Current Planning in consultation with the Director of Legal Services
SUBJECT:
Deletion of Duplicate Designations of Certain Gastown Properties from Part I of the Heritage By-law
RECOMMENDATION
THAT Council approve deletion of the duplicate heritage designations for 211 Columbia Street, 55 Water Street, 310 Water Street, and 16 East Hastings Street from Part I of the Heritage By-law;
FURTHER THAT Council authorize the Director of Legal Services to bring forward, for consideration by Council, a by-law that will effect the deletion of such designations.
GENERAL MANAGER'S COMMENTS
The General Manager of Community Services RECOMMENDS approval of the foregoing.
COUNCIL POLICYIn August 2002, City Council approved the Gastown Heritage Management Plan, including a resolution supporting the transfer of heritage designations for Gastown and Chinatown from the Province to the City. On January 14, 2003, the Heritage By-law was amended to effect this transfer.
The Heritage By-law now designates four Gastown properties described as 211 Columbia Street, 55 Water Street, 310 Water Street, and 16 East Hastings Street (the "Four Properties") as protected heritage properties in both Part 1 and Part 2.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this report is to achieve deletion from Part I of the Heritage By-law of the Four Properties because they are now listed in Part 2 of the By-law.
DISCUSSION
Pursuant to a directive under the Municipalities Enabling and Validating Act, Council, on January 14, 2003, enacted a by-law to amend the Heritage By-law to add to it all Gastown and Chinatown properties, including the Four Properties, which were previously Provincially protected heritage properties. The Gastown and Chinatown properties are now municipally designated heritage properties.
Prior to 2003, Council had approved municipal designations of the Four Properties, under the Heritage By-law, which were in addition to existing provincial designations. This was done as a cautionary measure, in instances where the City had provided heritage incentives to those properties and the logistics of transferring the Provincial designations to the City had not been assured.
As the designations effected by Council on January 14, 2003 will provide the same level of heritage protection as presently exists for the Four Properties and as no compensation is payable in respect of the new designations, the old designations are redundant and should be removed from Part I of the Heritage By-law.
CONCLUSION
Approval of the deletion from Part I of the Heritage By-law of the designations of the Four Properties will eliminate the duplication resulting from the general designation by Council, on January 14, 2003, of Gastown and Chinatown properties.
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