City of Pickering Official Plan- Edition 6

CITY POLICY
Heritage Education
and Promotion Policies (cont’d)
Some of important cultural
heritage structures in Pickering
include:
the individually designated
properties in the City
the Bentley House in
Brougham
Brougham Hall
the Claremont library
building
the City’s churches and
cemeteries
(ii) supporting Heritage Week, and
other community, regional and
provincial activities involving
cultural heritage activities;
(iii) establishing urban and rural
heritage trails and promoting
heritage walking tours;
(iv) identifying scenic roads and
promoting scenic driving tours;
(v) recognizing and commemorating
designated heritage buildings,
structures, sites and landscapes;
and
(vi) recognizing, with plaques and/or
certificates, buildings of
outstanding heritage value, and
people involved in heritage
restoration and conservation; and
(b) support and promote the Pickering
Museum Village.
CITY POLICY
Heritage Master Plan
8.6 City Council, in association with its
heritage committee, shall prepare a
municipal heritage master plan that
identifies cultural heritage resources and
outlines programs and strategies to
protect, interpret and responsibly use
cultural heritage resources.
CITY POLICY
Cultural Heritage Inventory
Some of the important areas in
Pickering having cultural
heritage value include:
the Whitevale Heritage
Conservation District
the City’s rural hamlets
Pickering Museum Village
the Oak Ridges Moraine
river valleys
the Former Lake Ontario
Shoreline
Frenchman’s Bay and area
views from Whitevale
Road and other scenic
roads
8.7 City Council, in association with its
heritage committee, shall
(a) conduct an inventory of heritage
resources owned by the City, its
boards and commissions, and
establish an overall program for the
maintenance, use, reuse or, if
warranted, disposal of these resources;
(b) maintain an inventory of heritage
resources designated or worthy of
designation under the Ontario
Heritage Act; and
(c) store and disseminate cultural heritage
resource inventories and data-bases in
convenient and publicly accessible
locations and formats, and maintain
an archive of heritage conservation
information.
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