HERITAGE PROPERTIES WORKSHOP June 20, 2012 HERITAGE MANAGEMENT - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

HERITAGE PROPERTIES WORKSHOP June 20, 2012

HERITAGE MANAGEMENT PLAN PROCESS

• The Heritage Management Plan:

– A framework to help conserve, manage and celebrate St. Albert’s heritage resources

• The Project:

– Develop phased plan, processes, policies, and forms for heritage program in St. Albert – Consultants Donald Luxton & Associates / David Murray Architect – Working closely with a Steering Committee & City Staff

– Cost-share funding provided by the Municipal Heritage Partnership Program

OUTCOMES OF THE HERITAGE MANAGEMENT PLAN

• Increases community pride and awareness
• Manages pace of change
• Develop programs that engage community in local heritage (e.g.: interpretive walks,

signs, QR codes)

• Sustainable and Environmental
• Opportunities to tie into local planning initiatives
• Investment in heritage sites through community partnerships
• Generating employment through heritage trades and other economic spin-offs

CURRENT SITUATION: Canada

• Canadian Register of Historic Places
• Standards & Guidelines
• Parks Canada
• No federal legislation to legally protect historic resources

CURRENT SITUATION: Alberta

• Heritage tools enabled under Alberta Municipal Government Act: legal authority to

designate and control land uses

• Alberta Historical Resources Act: identify and protect historic resources

CURRENT SITUATION: Alberta

Alberta Historic Resources Foundation (for sites on Alberta Register of Historic Places)

• MHR: $50,000 cost share per year for restoration
• PHR: $100,000 cost share per year for restoration
• Architectural, Engineering, Heritage Conservation Reports: $25,000
• Heritage Awareness (interpretive plaques, workshop attendance, presentations:

$5,000

• Publications: $5,000 (books) $3,000 (brochures)
• Research (oral history, research): $25,000
• Bob Etherington Heritage Trades: $3,000

CURRENT SITUATION: St. Albert

• Heritage Survey - 102 sites
• Places of Interest List - 62
• Heritage Inventory - 20 sites and a Context Paper (2009-2010)
• Municipal Historic Resources:
• Little White School (2009) (ARHP)
• White Spruce Forest (2011)
• St. Albert Place (2009)
• Cunningham House and Hogan Farm House (2009)
• Alberta Wheat Pool Grain Elevator (2009)
• Alberta Grain Company Grain Elevator (2009)
• Bank d’Hochelaga (2009)
• Juneau House (2009)
• Provincial Historic Resources:
• Alberta Grain Company Grain Elevator (2007)
• Alberta Wheat Pool Grain Elevator (2007)
• Bishop’s Palace (1977)
• Edmonton Residential School (1983)
• Father Lacombe Chapel (1983)

Source: MHPP

CURRENT SITUATION: St. Albert

• Restoration and Interpretive program underway for St. Albert site

(St. Albert Functional Plan)

• Heritage integrated into city policy documents:
• Cultural Master Plan (2012)
• Heritage Master Plan (1996)
• Municipal Development Plan (2011)
• City-owned heritage sites managed by Arts & Heritage St.

Albert:

• St. Albert Grain Elevator Park
• River Lot 24
• Little White School
• Art Gallery of St. Albert
• Provincial-owned heritage sites managed by Arts & Heritage St.

Albert:

• Father Lacombe Chapel

KEY DISCUSSION POINTS

• Designating city’s modern resources (post 1960s)
• Balancing needs of institutional, commercial and

residential property owners with preservation

• Awareness and promotion of historic sites
• Community capacity building and momentum for heritage

conservation

• Financial limitations for heritage conservation
• Interpreting intangible history

OPPORTUNITIES

• Tourism growth
• Partnership opportunities
• Awareness and promotion of heritage resources

PRIORITIES

THANK YOU