Councillor Joe Cressy, in whose ward several of these buildings are located, says the area is home to some of Toronto’s earliest buildings. The formal addition of these properties on the registry list, in connection with last month’s city approval of the King-Spadina heritage conservation district, does not freeze development but prevents “fly-by-night” demolitions. “The city began here, and the future of our city will be derived by the economy here,” he said. “What I think is underlying some of these claims of heritage designations or desires to have building heritage designations, is an attempt to slow or alter the direction of this push for density,” he said. “And the people who are concerned about the level of development and the quality of development have been given a really convenient, but distorted, label of NIMBY.”

Source: National Post December 06, 2017 12:56 UTC