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Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative<br />

and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015.<br />

The Kensington <strong>Mar</strong>ket Drum, <strong>Mar</strong>ch <strong>1991</strong> ,<br />

KENSINGTON COMMON<br />

15<br />

continued from page 5<br />

7. PROBLEMS RELATED TO<br />

GARBAGE DISPOSAL<br />

Concerns: that city, metro and community<br />

must come up with a comprehensive<br />

waste reduction action plan for the market,<br />

or run the risk of losing the essence of<br />

the <strong>Mar</strong>ket-the sale of produce. In<br />

essence the problem is that the <strong>Mar</strong>ket<br />

receives basically the same garbage disppsal<br />

service from the City as the surrounding<br />

residential areas (two nights a week)<br />

Recommendation 7 (A-J)<br />

A. one additional garbage pickup a<br />

week, so therefore, collections Monday,<br />

Thursday and Saturday;<br />

B. In the absence of A., immediate<br />

reinstatement of the previous practice:<br />

Monday garbage collections missed<br />

because of a holiday should be postponed<br />

to the Tuesday instead of cancelled out­<br />

.right;<br />

C. that the City resume nightly collection<br />

of cardboard (5 nights a week); that<br />

merchants and local garbage action groups<br />

participate in a program to separate waxed<br />

from unwaxed cardboard; that the<br />

province look to introducing a "discouragement<br />

tax" on produce delivered from<br />

outside the province in waxed cardboard;<br />

that there be a public education program<br />

in the area to educate people to the differenc~<br />

between waxed and unwaxed cardboards;<br />

D. that community, metro and city<br />

develop means for merchants to separate<br />

at source food matter from cardboard, and<br />

to store the food matter for return to the<br />

Ontario Food terminal for composting or<br />

other use;<br />

E. that the task force advise metro of<br />

Kensington <strong>Mar</strong>ket support for a plan to<br />

set up composting facilities on a commercial<br />

scale at the Ontario food terminal<br />

F. that the Task Force support nightly<br />

waste collection for all areas restaurants;<br />

G. that the introduction of nightly pickup<br />

of garbage for. retaurants be followed<br />

by introduction of a plan for commercial<br />

recycling and food waste separation by all<br />

restaurants receiving nightly pick-up;<br />

H. that following the successful introduction<br />

of commercial recycling and food<br />

waste separation by retaurants, nightly<br />

garbage collection be extended to all area<br />

businesses willing to implement this commercial<br />

recycling and food waste separation<br />

plan;<br />

I. that City Metro and local garbage<br />

action group try to arrange for as many<br />

homes as possible in the area to receive<br />

backyard composters;<br />

J. that wherever possible, a comprehensive<br />

garbage action program in the<br />

Kensington area be used to generate work<br />

for local people, and cooperative educational-opportunities<br />

for local youth.<br />

8. PROBLEMS RELATING TO<br />

KEEPING AND EXPANDING<br />

AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOt:SING<br />

ON BALDWIN STREET (note: as with<br />

several of the other recommendations<br />

here, these apply not only to Baldwin<br />

Street but to all the streets in the CR zone<br />

of the <strong>Mar</strong>ket)<br />

Concerns:<br />

- rapidly rising rents due to high tenant<br />

turnover,<br />

-high proportion of absentee landlords<br />

willing to allow apartments above<br />

stores to deteriorate;<br />

-incentives for people to convert second<br />

story residential uses to other uses;<br />

-prohibitive parking requirements for<br />

people wanting to put in affordable rental<br />

accommodation above stores;<br />

- high land cost downtown making new<br />

affordable housip.g starts less likely, and<br />

making nonprofit housing starts in the<br />

area almost impossible.<br />

Recommendation 8 (A· E)<br />

A. That the Task Force support the<br />

establishment of a Kensington <strong>Mar</strong>ket<br />

Tenant Association, and make provision<br />

for representation of such a tenant group<br />

on the Task Force;<br />

B. That the City provide the Task Force<br />

with a list of known rents in the <strong>Mar</strong>ket<br />

area;<br />

C. That the City provide incentives for<br />

property owners in the CR zone who are<br />

attempting to expand the supply of housing<br />

aqove stores in the CR area (see recommendation<br />

1F above);<br />

D. That the City and Task Force sup­<br />

. port variances from the commercial density<br />

allowed on a site where the property<br />

owner is seeking at least as much new<br />

rental housing on the site as new commercial<br />

square footage;<br />

E. That City, Task Force and community<br />

associations support efforts to have all<br />

the people who inhabit Kensington adequately<br />

housed.<br />

9. COMMUNITY CONCERNS<br />

WITH THE STYLE AND FOCUS OF<br />

POLICING AND LAW ENFORCE­<br />

MEl'

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