Yonge Street is Toronto’s main street, but its condition downtown is in many places forlorn against a backdrop of highrise gentrification. In 2016 ACO Toronto supported its nomination for the National Trust for Canada’s Top 10 Most Endangered Places and its College to Bloor Street section becoming a Heritage Conservation District. This will require setback of at least 10m behind the heritage streetwall and retention of staircase access from the street to upper residential and business floors. Most urgent, though, are property taxes that are set to rise, after a temporary 10% cap expires in December 2018, by up to 400% by 2020.

For more see:

Historic Yonge Street - Study Area Designation By-Law:

Are we killing Yonge Street?

Will facadism ruin Yonge Street?

How heritage designation can save Yonge Street's Victorian architecture from rapid redevelopment