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Mount Pleasant Community Planning Program - Heritage and CharacterMount Pleasant is a neighbourhood rich in history and character. In order to inform the Community Plan Update, the City retained heritage consultants, Donald Luxton and Associates, to produce an Historic Context Statement ( A Working Group made up of residents, business owners and representatives from community organizations and service providers met in late 2007, and early 2008, to identify themes of heritage value which should be included in the Historic Context Statement. When considering the heritage resources of Mount Pleasant, these themes can provide a framework to assess the significance of a particular resource. The themes can also be used to consider the degree to which the registered resources together convey the significant aspects of the neighbourhood. The Historic Context Statement containing the Themes of Heritage Value ( Council has endorsed a program to upgrade the Vancouver Heritage Register, the first meaningful change since 1986. The Register is a listing of buildings, streetscapes, landscape resources (parks and landscapes, trees, monuments, public works) and archaeological sites which have architectural and/or historical heritage value. The purpose of the Heritage Register Upgrade Program is to update the Register listing of historic places to better represent heritage values important to the city and its communities, and to reflect the increasingly diverse and multi-cultural nature of Vancouver.
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Questions or Comments? E-mail: mountpleasant@vancouver.ca
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PDF, 1.01MB) which responds to a broader range of values (beyond simply architectural merit) and expands our understanding of the places that are important to a community.