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Downtown Heritage Conservation District

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About the project

We are doing a heritage conservation district study for downtown Guelph.

In 2021, Council approved the recommendations of the Cultural Heritage Action Plan which included: For Old Downtown, undertake a comprehensive strategy, including community consultation, to direct future cultural heritage conservation efforts and planned change.

The provincial government’s More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022, significantly changed the structure of municipal heritage registers. As a result, all properties currently listed on the Municipal Register of Cultural Heritage Properties must be removed by January 1, 2025. About 1,700 properties will lose protections. 120 of these properties located in downtown Guelph.

To protect key cultural heritage resources within downtown Guelph, the City is completing this study to determine the suitability for a heritage conservation district in the commercial core of downtown Guelph.

How to participate

Open house for Downtown Guelph Heritage Conservation District Plan

Join us for the next open house Wednesday May 7, 2025, from 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. City Hall, 1 Carden Street.

Thank you for attending the Phase 2 open house on January 29th, 2025, or for joining us online to review the project information and taking the survey. Several questions were asked and answered at the open house. Read the questions and answers form that project here.

Thank you!

Let us know if you require any accommodations or have any questions by reaching out to Imogen Goldie at downtowndistrict@guelph.ca

About the project

We are doing a heritage conservation district study for downtown Guelph.

In 2021, Council approved the recommendations of the Cultural Heritage Action Plan which included: For Old Downtown, undertake a comprehensive strategy, including community consultation, to direct future cultural heritage conservation efforts and planned change.

The provincial government’s More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022, significantly changed the structure of municipal heritage registers. As a result, all properties currently listed on the Municipal Register of Cultural Heritage Properties must be removed by January 1, 2025. About 1,700 properties will lose protections. 120 of these properties located in downtown Guelph.

To protect key cultural heritage resources within downtown Guelph, the City is completing this study to determine the suitability for a heritage conservation district in the commercial core of downtown Guelph.

How to participate

Open house for Downtown Guelph Heritage Conservation District Plan

Join us for the next open house Wednesday May 7, 2025, from 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. City Hall, 1 Carden Street.

Thank you for attending the Phase 2 open house on January 29th, 2025, or for joining us online to review the project information and taking the survey. Several questions were asked and answered at the open house. Read the questions and answers form that project here.

Thank you!

Let us know if you require any accommodations or have any questions by reaching out to Imogen Goldie at downtowndistrict@guelph.ca

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