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Date:
March18, 2013
To:
Heritage Kitchener Committee
From:
Leon Bensason, Coordinator, Cultural Heritage Planning
cc:
Subject:
Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA)
445 King Street West, Kitchener
One Victoria (Momentum Developments)
A Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) is a study to determine the impacts to known and potential
cultural heritage resources within a defined area proposed for future development. The study
shall include an inventory of all cultural heritage resources within the planning application area.
The study results in a report which identifies all known cultural heritage resources, an evaluation
of the significance of the resources, and makes recommendations toward mitigative measures
that would minimize negative impacts to those resources. A Heritage Impact Assessment may
Ontario Heritage Act; or
where development is proposed adjacent to a protected heritage property. The requirement may
also apply to unknown or recorded cultural heritage resources which are discovered during the
development application stage or construction.
The City of Kitchener is in receipt of Official Plan Amendment and Zone Change Applications to
facilitate the redevelopment of 445 King Street West for a mixed use development. The subject
property is located adjacent the Kaufman Lofts property which is formally designated under Part
IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. Consequently, the submission of a Heritage Impact Assessment
was required by the City of Kitchener.
The heritage consultant who authored the Heritage Impact Assessment will be in attendance on
nd
April 2 to present the findings of the HIA to Heritage Kitchener. Committee members are
encouraged to review the HIA in advance of the Heritage Kitchener meeting and are invited to
ask questions at the Committee meeting. A recommendation from the Committee is not
required. As the HIA has been prepared in relation to a Planning Act application, comments
made by Heritage Kitchener members will be considered by Heritage Planning Staff, who will be
making a recommendation to the Director of Planning on the Heritage Impact Assessment.
ACKNOWLEDGED BY:
Brandon Sloan,Manager of Long Range & Policy Planning
Community Services Department
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