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Downtown Heritage Conservation District

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback throughout the project.

About the project

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 (revised deadline January 1, 2027). About 1,700 properties will lose protections. 120 of these properties located in downtown Guelph.

Historical planning map of Guelph titled Plan of the Town of Guelf, Upper Canada, founded by the Canada Company 1827

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175 participants

Who's Listening

Imogen Goldie

Imogen Goldie, Project Manager, Heritage

imogen.goldie@guelph.ca

Rebecca Sciarra, Project Manager, ASI

rsciarra@asiheritage.ca

Phases

Phases overview
Downtown Guelph Heritage focus group recruitment
Character mapping
Downtown heritage conservation survey
Community character map
Heritage feature prioritization
Potential HCD plan - Objectives values and attributes
Levels of support for an HCD in Downtown
Heritage Conservation District Forum
Downtown Heritage Conservation District Plan survey
Open house for HCD Plan
Downtown HCD Plan and Guidelines development
Draft Downtown HCD plan and guidelines review
Downtown HCD Statutory Public Meeting
Council Planning Meeting
Designation by-law in effect

Downtown Heritage Conservation District Plan survey

January 27, 2025 - February 8, 2025

We need your feedback on the plan

The City of Guelph is completing a Heritage Conservation District Plan to develop policies and guidelines for a district in the commercial core of downtown Guelph. A Heritage Conservation District (H.C.D.) would protect significant buildings and landscape features and create a heritage-sensitive plan to guide future development in the area.

We completed the study phases with your help and now we need your feedback on the Plan Phase of the HCD. In this survey we would like to get your feedback on the each part that goes into the plan such as the Statement of Direct Significance, the Plan objectives, policies and guidelines and why and how we would require Heritage Permits. Learn more about the process by viewing the presentation and the open house #3 information boards and then take this survey. There is some information to read as you go through the survey. It should take from 15 - 20 minutes to complete. 

Read our final study report and click through past phases of this project to learn more about how we got here.

Downtown HCD Open house 3 presentation.pdf
(1.2 MB)
DT HCD open house 3 Boards - Stations 4 and 5.pdf
(5.0 MB)
Downtown HCD open house questions and answers.pdf
(158.7 KB)
Open house 3 project information.pdf
(181.8 KB)
Downtown Guelph HCD Study Report.pdf
(28.8 MB)
DT HCD open house 3 boards - Stations 2 and 3.pdf
(10.9 MB)
DT HCD open house 3 Boards - Stations 6 and 7.pdf
(4.1 MB)

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