{"id":1309,"date":"2013-04-09T12:24:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2013-04-16T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:45:21","slug":"council-will-take-another-look-at-heritage-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/council-will-take-another-look-at-heritage-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Council will take another look at Heritage Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supporters of the proposed Hillary-McIntyre Heritage Park could be taking another crack at getting $50,000 to carry out a feasibility study next week, their next step in making the ambitious project a reality.<\/p>\n

Proponents of the plan call for Hillary House and Horton Place \u2013 the yellow-brick house at the corner of Yonge Street and Irwin Avenue \u2013 to be combined with Readman House, the two-storey house sandwiched between the two, for a four acre heritage park which, they argue, would be an \u201canchor\u201d for the northern half of Aurora. <\/p>\n

The project\u2019s steering committee presented a detailed plan to Aurora\u2019s Heritage Advisory Committee (HAC) last month and their recommendation to Council was they consider putting $50,000 forward for the feasibility study. This request, however, fell on deaf ears amid a heated debate over the recommendation and confusion over the intention of HAC\u2019s original motion. <\/p>\n

Councillors Sandra Humfryes and John Abel, the two Councillors sitting on HAC, however, will soon be taking another leap at getting their motion on the table. Councillor Abel is expected to bring forward a motion this week at Council, directing staff \u201cto provide a report summarizing the key elements of a feasibility study, and budget and timing\u201d for Council\u2019s consideration.<\/p>\n

Their course of action was charted out the last HAC meeting over a discussion of just what went wrong with their first attempt to get Council to consider funding the study. The vision could gain further clarity, they said, by having Mr. Albino make the same presentation to Council as he had to HAC. The last time he presented the proposal at Council it was quite bare-bones compared to the latest incarnation and having that before Council could give members added insight to the project\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did recommend [to Mr. Albino] that perhaps future steps could be going back to Council with his revised presentation, revised architectural drawings and that sort of thing because a lot of work was put into it,\u201d said Vanessa Hicks, Manager of Heritage Planning for the Town of Aurora. \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure at that point what I could recommend to him, but I did let him know what Council\u2019s direction was and that was my recommendation.\u201d
\nCouncil\u2019s recommendation was to ultimately do nothing and simply receive the report containing the Committee\u2019s recommendation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see three options: that the committee could put forward direction in saying the Committee recommends staff put a report forward, but that hasn\u2019t been met well,\u201d said Councillor Abel. \u201cThe other is to have a delegation and have a motion arise from that, or the third is Council put a notice of motion and bring it forward that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Members of HAC agreed, however, that it would be more effective if a motion came out of Mr. Albino\u2019s presentation and that would avoid the confusion that hit the Council table the last time around.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a learning experience for us,\u201d said Councillor Humfryes. \u201cWe tried this on several occasions on different angles to say we\u2019re not spending $50,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Councillor Abel: \u201cCouncil got its dander up saying, \u2018Who is the Committee to tell us to do a feasibility study?\u2019 Sandra and I said that the committee wasn\u2019t telling them that but based on what the presentation was, they would recommend Council look at it and consider a feasibility study as vetted through us.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir Supporters of the proposed Hillary-McIntyre Heritage Park could be taking another crack at getting $50,000 to carry out a feasibility study next week, their next step in making the ambitious project a reality. Proponents of the plan call for Hillary House and Horton Place \u2013 the yellow-brick house at the corner of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-l7","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 12:21:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}