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The City regulates the construction of all structures in Toronto through the building permit application process. The process requires builders to submit architectural plans of their proposed buildings along with their applications.
City Buildings Department staff had been saving the plans since 1904, resulting in a huge collection of 120,000 rolls of plans. The City began to microfilm the plans in the 1980s, making it unnecessary to keep the original blueprints. However, it was recognized that at least some of the original drawings had a place in the Archives' collection.
In the mid 1990s the Archives selected a number of plans to document various building types and neighbourhoods in the city. These plans provide an in-depth documentation of building construction in the city for more than a hundred years, giving equal weight to the fancy and the plain.
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