THE CONSERVATION REVIEW Board has recommended to the Town of Richmond Hill that the majority of the David Dunlap Observatory be preserved as a heritage site.

“The local communities have always known and appreciated the cultural heritage worth of the Dunlap Observatory and Park,” said Karen Cilevitz of the David Dunlap Observatory Defenders group. “We now feel more confident it will indeed receive the protection and recognition it so richly deserves — that of a national site of great scientific, ecological and economic significance.”

The observatory and park was sold to Metrus Development by the University of Toronto last year. It will be up to the town as to whether the site will receive heritage designation or not.