The city receives on average 1,800 to 2,000 applications a year from homeowners who want to alter their heritage properties, city staff told CBC Toronto in an email. "Almost all are approved,"

So what's the issue with changing the dangerous stairs then? Sounds like the work would be approved.

A city staff report to the TPB concluded the home's designation had little to do with its association with Caldecott. Instead, the report says the home is worth preserving because it was designed by prominent Toronto architect Eden Smith and because of the unique structural qualities he brought to the building.

Adam Wynne, a board member and chair of the Toronto and East York Community Preservation Panel, told CBC Toronto his own research shows that Caldecott only lived in the house for a few months before he died in 1907.

So, the heritage designation is not tied to the original owner, who barely lived there anyway. They're full of shit and are looking to modify the house in some way prohibited by the heritage status. The racist bullshit is just a pretext.