Kitchener looking into protecting heritage while making way for LRT
Posted May 26, 2014 05:54:56 AM.
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There’s a move to protect some of Kitchener’s Heritage neighbourhoods as the city makes way for the LRT.
The city’s head of heritage preservation says they are looking at protecting culturally significant buildings and neighbourhoods.
Leon Bensason tells Monday’s Record “the sooner we do it the better”.
Light-rail trains will roll out in 2017. More than half of the LRT stations will be located in Kitchener, and most will be in and around some of the oldest neighbourhoods.
A citywide cultural heritage landscape study is now under way looking at the Mount Hope Cemetery and the pioneer cemetery in Deer Ridge, the Mount Hope-Breithaupt Park neighbourhood that features old factories and workers’ housing, and the Simms Estate on the Grand River.
Kitchener already has four heritage conservation districts — Doon village, St. Mary’s, Victoria Park and Civic District. The exterior of all buildings, the streetscapes and trees in those areas are protected under the Ontario Heritage Act.
A public meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on June 11 in the Conestoga room at Kitchener city hall.
