The Toronto Community Council recommends that City Council defer consideration of the application for a demolition permit at 33 Gloucester Street until such time as a building permit has been issued for a replacement building on this property.

The Toronto Community Council submits the following report (March 5, 1998) from the Commissioner, Urban Planning and Development Services:

Purpose:

In accordance with former City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 146, Article II, Demolition Control, I refer the demolition application for 33 Gloucester Street to you to recommend to City Council whether to grant or refuse the application, including conditions, if any, to be attached to the permit.

Funding Sources, Financial Implications and Impact Statement:

Not applicable.

Recommendation:

That City Council defer consideration of the application for a demolition permit at 33 Gloucester Street until such time as a building permit has been issued for a replacement building on this property.

Comments:

On February 17, 1998, Marcos Developments Inc. applied for a permit to demolish the residential building at 33 Gloucester Street. The existing vacant residential building is a semi-detached house containing one dwelling unit.

Marcos Developments also filed an application with me to construct a replacement structure consisting of a two-storey detached house. Plan examination of this building permit application is currently underway to establish conformity with the Building Code Act, the Zoning By-law and applicable law.

In accordance with the former City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 146, Article II, Demolition Control, I refer the demolition application to you because I have received objections to the application from 21 residents. The central objection raised by the residents is that the structure has significant heritage value. The structure is neither designated under the Ontario Heritage Act nor listed on the City's Inventory of Heritage Properties. Heritage Toronto will be reporting separately to you with their comments on this issue.

The Planning Act requires City Council to issue a demolition permit where a building permit has been issued for a replacement building on the property. However, should City Council decide to designate this property, a separate demolition application will be required under the Ontario Heritage Act.

If the heritage status of this property remains unchanged, and a building permit for a replacement building is issued, I intend to recommend that City Council authorize me to issue a demolition permit subject to the standard conditions as set out in §146-16B(5) of the Municipal Code, specifically:

(a) That the applicant for the permit construct and substantially complete the new building to be erected on the site of the residential property to be demolished not later than two (2) years from the day demolition of the existing residential property is commenced.

(b) That, on failure to complete the new building within the time specified, the City Clerk shall be entitled to enter on the collector's roll, to be collected in like manner as municipal taxes, the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for each dwelling unit contained in the residential property in respect of which the demolition permit is issued and that such sum shall, until payment, be a lien or charge upon the land in respect of which the permit to demolish the residential property is issued.

Conclusions:

That City Council defer consideration of the application for a demolition permit at 33 Gloucester Street until such time as a building permit has been issued for a replacement building on this property.

Contact Name:

David Brezer, P. Eng

Telephone: (416) 392-0097

Fax: (416) 392-0721

E-mail: dbrezer@city.toronto.on.ca

(A copy of the Demolition Permit Application referred to in the foregoing report is on file in the office of the City Clerk and copies of the communications addressed to the Chief Building Official, Department of Buildings and Inspections, City Hall, referred to in the foregoing report were forwarded to all Members of the Toronto Community Council with the agenda for its meeting on April 1, 1998, and copies thereof are on file in the office of the City Clerk.)