Charlottetown building set for demolition designated a heritage property
CBC
The City of Charlottetown has designated a new heritage property at 10 Prince Street.
Last year the owner of the building put in an application to the city to demolish the building and put a new one up. Because of its location — inside the historic core of the city, known as the 500-lot area — the city responded to the application by assigning temporary heritage status to the building last October.
City council decided to make that heritage designation permanent on Tuesday night, voting 7-2 in favour of a recommendation from city staff. That was following a closed session to discuss the topic. Councillors Bob Doiron and Terry Bernard voted against the resolution. Coucillor Mitch Tweel was not in attendance.
"It was a very very long process," said Alanna Jankov, chair of the planning and heritage committee.
"If council decided to not accept staff's recommendation, the idea of a demolition and then a redevelopment would still have huge scrutiny in terms of going through design review because it is in the 500-lot area. And anybody that purchases property in this heritage area would be subject to the same thing."
The permanent heritage designation means the property owner is barred from demolishing the building, and any renovations or upgrades to the exterior would have to conform with the city's heritage bylaw.
"There are also grants and incentives for folks that do have properties that are heritage related," Jankov said.
The building, located at the intersection of Prince and Water streets, was likely built around 1900, according to the city. It was once a single-family home, but has been occupied by various businesses over the years.
Both councillors Doiron and Bernard noted this is the first time they could recall the city giving a heritage designation without it being requested by a property owner themselves.
"When he bought it, it was not a designated property. Now, my understanding is, he's looking to move here," Bernard said, during the council meeting.
"We've never issued a designation without an owner's permission or without the owners asking for it. Now, I know in our bylaws, yeah we can, and legally they probably did follow the process… but I just don't agree with the way this went about and forcing a designation on a person on the 11th hour."
With the property being in the 500-lot, that means when applications for demolishing a building come into the city the process can be automatically triggered under the city's bylaws, Jankov said.
"It does prompt that level of review to take a look at the property to see whether or not it is viable to be a heritage designation," she said.
There is a scoring system for rating the heritage value of properties. A score of 63 would make a property a potential heritage resource. This particular property scored a 68, Jankov said.
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