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Ottawa’s planning committee on Tuesday overruled its built-heritage subcommittee, siding with a developer who plans to tear down and move a barn built in the 19th century.
The red dairy barn at 590 Hazeldean Rd. was part of the Bradley-Craig farmstead, sold to Richcraft in 2006. In 2010, heritage designation for the barn and the Gothic revival farmhouse was part of granting redevelopment zoning.
Richcraft has agreed to incorporate the farmhouse into the development, but wants the surrounding land for box stores. The developer wants to reassemble the barn at Saunders Farm, an agricultural attraction in about 20 kilometres away in Munster.
But city planners cited the Ontario Heritage Act in arguing that the barn must stay where it is. A heritage building can only be moved if that’s the only way to preserve it — and in that case, it should be moved to another part of the property or to a site “appropriate to its heritage value.”
“This barn is an unparalleled example of its kind,” said Coun. Tobi Nussbaum, who chairs the subcommittee and supported the staff recommendation, which urged the committee to refuse Richcraft’s application.
More than a dozen public speakers failed to sway committee members who, after several hours of discussion, voted 7-2 to overturn the earlier decision.
If council endorses the committee’s decision on Wednesday, Richcraft would have two years to dismantle and move the barn.
In Lowertown, the committee took staff’s advice in approving the demolition of 281-283 Cumberland St. to make room for a new, four-storey building.
The built heritage committee last month unanimously rejected the staff recommendation, which was also panned by heritage advocates in the neighbourhood.
The new building at the corner of Murray and Cumberland streets would replace the former Our Lady’s School, where Lowertown’s anglophone Catholic girls were educated. The proposal would leave two walls of the 1904 school standing as a facade for the new building.
The derelict school has been a long-running problem for the city. Last year, the city won a legal battle with landlord Claude Lauzon, who owns the crumbling school. Lauzon was ordered to stabilize and protect the west and south walls, and foundations of the school under the direction of a structural engineer as well as securing the rest of the site and removing barricades to allow sidewalks to be open. He was also ordered to pay $140,000 in legal costs and expenses.
The committee also approved plans for four new condo towers on two separate sites.
The first two-tower project, at the corner of Sparks and Bay streets, includes a 17-storey hotel to replace the defunct one currently on the site (it used to be an independent called the National, and before that a Delta). The owner, Morguard Corp., wants to tear it and an adjoining low-rise apartment building down and build a 23-storey condo tower and a new 27-storey hotel.
Elsewhere, Trinity Development Group won approval for a pair of condo towers where the Ottawa Torah Institute High School (among other things) used to be. The two 25-storey buildings at 151-153 Chapel St., which have been reduced in height from what was initially envisioned, required a rezoning to exceed established height limits.
Trinity appears to want the city to open the intersection of Chapel and Beausoleil, but some residents, community groups and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury are opposed to such a move.
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The red dairy barn at 590 Hazeldean Rd. was part of the Bradley-Craig farmstead, sold to Richcraft in 2006. In 2010, heritage designation for the barn and the Gothic revival farmhouse was part of granting redevelopment zoning.
Richcraft has agreed to incorporate the farmhouse into the development, but wants the surrounding land for box stores. The developer wants to reassemble the barn at Saunders Farm, an agricultural attraction in about 20 kilometres away in Munster.
But city planners cited the Ontario Heritage Act in arguing that the barn must stay where it is. A heritage building can only be moved if that’s the only way to preserve it — and in that case, it should be moved to another part of the property or to a site “appropriate to its heritage value.”
“This barn is an unparalleled example of its kind,” said Coun. Tobi Nussbaum, who chairs the subcommittee and supported the staff recommendation, which urged the committee to refuse Richcraft’s application.
More than a dozen public speakers failed to sway committee members who, after several hours of discussion, voted 7-2 to overturn the earlier decision.
If council endorses the committee’s decision on Wednesday, Richcraft would have two years to dismantle and move the barn.
In Lowertown, the committee took staff’s advice in approving the demolition of 281-283 Cumberland St. to make room for a new, four-storey building.
The built heritage committee last month unanimously rejected the staff recommendation, which was also panned by heritage advocates in the neighbourhood.
The new building at the corner of Murray and Cumberland streets would replace the former Our Lady’s School, where Lowertown’s anglophone Catholic girls were educated. The proposal would leave two walls of the 1904 school standing as a facade for the new building.
The derelict school has been a long-running problem for the city. Last year, the city won a legal battle with landlord Claude Lauzon, who owns the crumbling school. Lauzon was ordered to stabilize and protect the west and south walls, and foundations of the school under the direction of a structural engineer as well as securing the rest of the site and removing barricades to allow sidewalks to be open. He was also ordered to pay $140,000 in legal costs and expenses.
The committee also approved plans for four new condo towers on two separate sites.
The first two-tower project, at the corner of Sparks and Bay streets, includes a 17-storey hotel to replace the defunct one currently on the site (it used to be an independent called the National, and before that a Delta). The owner, Morguard Corp., wants to tear it and an adjoining low-rise apartment building down and build a 23-storey condo tower and a new 27-storey hotel.
Elsewhere, Trinity Development Group won approval for a pair of condo towers where the Ottawa Torah Institute High School (among other things) used to be. The two 25-storey buildings at 151-153 Chapel St., which have been reduced in height from what was initially envisioned, required a rezoning to exceed established height limits.
Trinity appears to want the city to open the intersection of Chapel and Beausoleil, but some residents, community groups and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury are opposed to such a move.
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