- That the proclamation deadline be
pushed to July 1, 2021 to allow municipalities more time to prepare,
especially in consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponed
release of the revised Ontario Heritage Tool Kit;
- That the language “Significant
built heritage resources and significant cultural heritage landscapes
shall be conserved” from the Provincial Policy Statement (2020) be
adopted as a principle for the Ontario Heritage Act;
- That the definition of ‘adaptive
reuse’ be revised from “the alteration of a property of cultural
heritage value or interest to fit new uses or circumstances while
retaining the heritage attributes of the property” to “the
alteration of a property of cultural heritage value or interest to fit
new uses or circumstances while retaining the cultural heritage
value or interest and the heritage attributes of the property”;
- That the 90 day timeline to issue a
Notice of Intention to Designate be increased, or that an additional
exemption be included that provides municipalities more time to address
requirements for peer review;
- That the requirements for complete
application also be applied to properties designated under Part V of
the Ontario Heritage Act;
- That clarification of the regulation “After
the demolition or removal of a building, structure or heritage
attribute on the property is complete, the council of the municipality
shall, in consultation with the municipal heritage committee
established under section 28 of the Act, if one has been established,
make one of the following determinations..” is provided to exclude
non-heritage buildings or structures from this requirement’; and,
- That the Town Clerk forward a link to
the report titled “Proposed Regulation under the Ontario Heritage Act
(Bill 108)”, dated October 21, 2020, along with the Council resolution,
to Halton’s Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs), Halton Region, the
City of Burlington, the Town of Halton Hills, the Town of Milton,
Conservation Halton, Credit Valley Conservation, the Grand River
Conservation Authority and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario
(AMO) for information.
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