Priority areas

• Protecting what is valuable establishes policies and development criteria for Cultural heritage conservation
• Secondary Plans: Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Relevant sections

• Chapter 4: Protecting What is Valuable
• Chapter 8: Urban Design
• Section 11.1: Downtown Guelph Secondary Plan
• Section 11.2: Guelph Innovation District Secondary Plan

Priority areas

• A vibrant and valued arts and culture sector: The downtown as a place of community and cultural focus
• A leader among the Province’s ‘creative cities’
• Numerous opportunities for artistic appreciation, expression and development
• Highest per capita use of cultural facilities among any comparable Canadian city
• Capitalize on our cultural assets to build economic prosperity, quality of life, and community identity

Priority areas

• Facilitate conservation of cultural heritage resources
• Promote public awareness of heritage conservation in the community
• Maintain protected heritage properties
• Manage City-owned assets of cultural heritage value
• Identify and map candidate CHLs within the city
• Establish a prioritized list of candidate CHL study areas with a schedule for potential listing on Heritage Register and possible designation
• Guide the suitability of Part V designation for CHLs (e.g. the downtown core)
• Sympathetic development and building design recommendations involving cultural heritage resources
• Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Priority areas

• A vibrant and valued arts and culture
  sector: The downtown as a place of community and cultural focus
• A leader among the Province’s
  ‘creative cities’
• Numerous opportunities for artistic
  appreciation, expression and development
• Highest per capita use of cultural
  facilities among any comparable Canadian city
• Capitalize on our cultural assets to
  build economic prosperity, quality of life, and community identity

Priority areas

• The Arts: Advertise and support permanent youth art space displays, Collaborate with Guelph Arts Council to bring the annual youth artists awards/recognition program, Provide youth space for practicing the arts

Priority areas

• Increase opportunities for the creative community to learn, work, and thrive in Guelph
• Grow connections and collaboration in the arts and between community sectors
• Advocate for and support: Economic investment in the arts, Cultural initiatives, including cultural planning and creative spaces, that enhance Guelph’s economic development and quality of life
• Promote understanding and respect for: The value of the arts for individuals and communities
• The diversity of creative practice