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egotrippin said:
I'm with you. This proposal is asinine and proves that heritage preservation is a joke in this city. 49 Yonge is an outstanding example of, and one of the very few Second Empire buildings we have left intact and now it's one step closer to becoming a 2-sided shell. And any arguments of "providing housing" are bullshit because this will likely be an expensive investor box that will do nothing to address affordability.

I should edit to add, I don't mean to undermine the people who truly care and work towards achieving the balance of housing/development needs and heritage, but there are instances like this where I wish the City had more teeth and could designate certain buildings off-limits. It's disheartening that we can't even save a handful of our finest examples from redevelopment.
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One has to wonder how Heritage Toronto decides what's worth preserving and what can be butchered? Allowing 49 Yonge to be facaded and refusing a similar proposal at 372-378 Yonge St.

From an article on BlogTo re: 372-378 Yonge St. - In a refusal report dated March 7, the City's Acting Senior Manager of Heritage Planning, Urban Design and City Planning recommends that City Council refuse the application, claiming that the current plan would be detrimental to the protected heritage buildings on site.

How about preserving all four hertiage buildings in their whole,
 
Keetso said:
One has to wonder how Heritage Toronto decides what's worth preserving and what can be butchered? Allowing 49 Yonge to be facaded and refusing a similar proposal at 372-378 Yonge St.

From an article on BlogTo re: 372-378 Yonge St. - In a refusal report dated March 7, the City's Acting Senior Manager of Heritage Planning, Urban Design and City Planning recommends that City Council refuse the application, claiming that the current plan would be detrimental to the protected heritage buildings on site.

How about preserving all four hertiage buildings in their whole,
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Agreed, I wonder the same thing. 49-51 Yonge is in a whole different ballpark and yet here we are.
 
One more step forward.
This was on the 20 Wellington St. E City’s site plan application page.
Transferring ~123m2 of 20 Wellington laneway to this site 49-51 Yonge.
For “legal” ease of construction I guess or do they give it back or build on it or share the laneway when all said and done?
I wonder what a laneway sells or rents for these days?

“The property Owner, 20 Wellington Street East Toronto Holdings Inc., to sever a portion of the lands at premises No. 20 Wellington Street East for the purpose of a lot addition (Lot 12 on Draft Reference Plan) and to create a new easement.
It is understood that the severance for the land addition to the abutting property at premises Nos. 49-51 Yonge Street is being established to facilitate the proposed
development on that site. The development related application approvals of the Zoning By-law Amendment and Site Plan Control Application Nos. 21 235446 STE 13 OZ and 22 202849 STE 13 SA, for the abutting site are on-going.”


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