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A new bill has extended the deadline for Canada’s Ontario municipalities to officially designate buildings by two years, but closing a loophole that would have further relieved the time crunch.
CBC News Canada writes:
The provincial government tightened the rules surrounding the lists in 2023, telling municipalities they had until the end of this year to either designate listed properties, or remove them for at least five years…
This put the City of Ottawa in a frantic race to assess more than 4,600 properties. With no hope of getting through all of them in that time…
… the city is still assessing the impacts of the bill, but… ‘will probably try to keep our foot on the gas as much as we can.’
