Date set for appeal of Homestead high-rise project, while City of Kingston stays on sidelines
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A court date has been set in the latest chapter of a long-running battle over a heritage versus high-rise project in downtown Kingston.
A court date has been set in the latest chapter of a long-running battle over a heritage versus high-rise development in downtown Kingston.
The Frontenac Heritage Foundation is seeking leave to appeal a recent Ontario Land Tribunal ruling that gave permission for Homestead Land Holdings Ltd. to build two apartment towers on lower Queen Street in downtown Kingston, a project that’s become a focal point for citizen battles in recent years.
The 19- and 23-storey residential buildings would be located on opposite sides of the street near Queen and King Streets — one behind the Smith Robinson office building and the other behind Goodlife Fitness and the LCBO store — on surface parking lots.
The case will be the focus of a virtual hearing in Ontario’s divisional court on Friday, Feb. 25 with lawyers for the foundation and Homestead expected to make their arguments.
The heritage group contends the land tribunal made “errors in law” in its Nov. 4, 2021 ruling in favour of the Homestead development.
It will be up to the court to decide whether the group’s appeal has any merit and what the next steps will be.
In a statement last November, Frontenac Heritage Foundation president Shirley Bailey said the land tribunal decision goes against the city’s tradition of conserving “the valuable and unmatched heritage character of the downtown area.”
The foundation noted that the tribunal came to the opposite conclusion of a former tribunal decision about the project, released in August 2019. That previous decision denied the high-rise construction on the basis of height, saying the buildings would create a “visual intrusion to the streetscape and the prevailing built context” and were “not compatible with the surrounding area.”
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