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Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015. Page two, Kensington Market Drum PAttrWA"f by David Perlman WRECK~TANGLE and ARCHI church committee at St. Stephen'sin-the-Fields TORTURE are two common are trying a gentler pieces of graffitti around here, protesting the squares and right angles that govern life in the city. But pedestrians have another way to protest. They can cut comers wherever possible. The result? approach--making a virtue of necessity. "if there's a pathway there, they reason, it's because there's a need. And they're right. Seniors, strollers, people just wanting to walk under a tree, all make use of bare-earth diagonal pathways that little short-cut. And "St. Stephen' pounded into any comer-lot lawn not protected by a fence. s-behind-the-Fence" wouldn't have quite the same inviting ring to Two of Kensington •·s most it. famous protest paths are off Bellevue So the users of the church have Avenue. One runs diagonally taken the initiative. They have had across Bellevue Square Park from plans drawn up for a ,flagstone Wales at the south · west to the pathway to go where the comer playground. The other runs across gets cut. They've taken the plans the lawn of St. Stephen's-in-the to the task force and to the City, Fields Church at the s.e. comer of and are hoping for parish and local College and Bellevue. support in getting the work done. The usual reaction of landowners Anyone who wants to help or and custodians is to try 'to stop the contribute, contact Elai~e Gager, erosion by putting up barriers- evenings at 536-8584 (between 4 walls, fences, "beware of the bull" and 7 p.m.). and so on. But members of the No walkovers • Ill by Drwn Staff '91 No walkovers There will be races for all political offices affecting DRUM's beat- ward 5 city council, mayor of Toronto, Metro Council Downtown Ward, and , trustee. As a public service, DRUM here lists candidates for all offices affecting our wards, along with phone numbers (as obtained from the City Clerk's office. Remember, your vote counts if it's there to be counted. .... lN.:nra~ ( .TJI.{_e; &.!.~- - S7. KENSINGTON PLANNING AD VISORY MEETING ON CITY PLAN '91 DRAWS BLANK A meeting at Kensipgton Community School Sept 19 on CityPlan '91--the new Toronto Official Plan drew a crowd of nearly nobody (8 people). - Note: for those of you interested in seeing the Plan clearly and still having a say, there will be one last big meeting, December 11 in the Council Chamber at City Hall, to make final recommendations to Council, who will then give "final directions" to the planners. l c::r\-- ~ I II --- \0 ·-- >-. Y-. -- ·- ----- --- - X - ·-...· ~ -~ ! CcwtcPT *3 \}l --\t )J (/\ :'
Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015. ,,..,.. ' II" ---- -.---- ~ _, - - - "'"":"::""---~-:- ~ .- ----_- , I October 1991 Kensington Market Drum, page three - HOSPITAL OUTLINES PLANS continued from page 1 PLANNERS EXPLAIN PROCESS City area planner Susanne Pringle then explained that the hospital has reached zoning limits so they can't continue building "piecemeal" on this site. The existing zoning bylaw allows 2.8 times coverage, and the hospital has already reached 3.2 times coverage ("3.2 times coverage" was explained as being equal to every inch of the site covered to 3.2 floors height.) So for any additions now, the hospital must apply to rezone the whole site. In fact the hospital has done this, and has put forward to the city a plan for everything they want to do on the site for the next ten years. PLANNER CONCERNS Ms. Pringle said the planning department has several concerns about the information provided by the hospital so far, and therefore recommended that the Planning Advisory Committee set up a neighbourhood work group to look into the plans. Among the city's concerns she mentioned were the plan does not go far enough to get the hospital's parking back onto its main site; the plan wants new major entrances to the hospital (for vehicles and pedestrians) on a residential street (Nassau); the plan will increase traffic and parking problems in the surrounding neighbourhood; the height and density of some of the buildings proposed (i.e. a social housing project on Leonard A venue, and building on Nassau) is too large for the surrounding residential area; the relationship of the social housing project on 55 Leonard and the plan for the main site is not clear. HOSPITAL OUTLINES PLANS After Ms Pringle, Doug Freel, an architect and Bill Louth, Vice President of the hospital explained what the hospital wants. Mr Freel explained that the hospital wants 4.4 times coverage, in order to add about 350,000 square feet of new buildings and additions on the site. He outlined five specific things the hospital wants to do: •add 150,000 sq. ft to the Bathurst/Dundas tower (the Fell . Pavilion) by going up another five floors to a total of 14; •increase the Bathurst West building from four to six floors, adding 20,000 sq. ft; •fill in the small courtyard between bathurst West and the main block, adding 10,000 sq. ft; .demolish the oldest part of the hospital, called Bathurst North, at the comer of Nassau and Bathurst, and replace it with a 6- floor "ambulatory care facility" over a 200 space parking garage (addin& 165,000 sq. ft); .add 2000 sq. ft (two floors) to the front of the MRI building- the windowless one on Nassau Street). PLEA FOR PROGRESS Mr. Louth explained that overall the hospital was not trying to expand but was trying to offer a . different kind of health care--more outpatient treatment, where people walk in for a procedure and leave the same day (ambulatory care). He said also that more sophisticated technology required more space. He explained that the hospital's parking garage at 55 Leonard was in a state of disrepair and needed to be rebuilt, and this had been communicated to the community two years ago. "It was not the hospital's idea, then or now, to put housing on the Leonard A venue site." The idea of social h~msing at 55 Leonard, he said, was because members of the community urged them to put the parking underground and put housing on top. The proposed 192 apartment building was the smallest that could be built to cover the cost of putting the hospital's parking underground at no cost to the hospital. He concluded by "pleading for rapid progress" saying that the hospital has "a fairly short time frame to nlake changes to provide better care" and pointing out that the consultation process began in 1987. · Anne White, a consultant from Chris Smith and Associates then spoke. Her firm, she said, advises people wanting· to build co-ops. She explained that a co-op at 55 Leonard Avenue would be run by residents themselves, with "pride of ownership". It would have a mix of units--some with marketvalue rent, some subsidised. She said that the present co-op idea was being sponsored by the hospital who were hoping that a number of their own staff would choose to live near their place of work. She said that in practise what would be likely is that only around half of the units would be taken to by people connected to the hospital. (Speaking outside the meeting, one of the hospital's trustees said that since the proposed co-op had been rejected by the city's land-use committee, the hospital would in my case probably just go ahead md reinforce the existing parking garage "for four or five years.") COMMUNITY CONCERNS Many people spoke from the audience on a wide range of issues. There was applause when Allan LIST OF VOLUNTEERS FOR WESTERN HOSPITAL PLANNING WORK GROUP Pat McKendry, Palmerston; Paul Regan, Markham; Phyllis Matheson, Crawford; Margaret Keatings, · Wolseley; Karen Markov, Lippincott; David Lee, Nassau; Joseph Panucci, Nassau; Fatima Brazao, Nassau; Jose Correia, Lippincott; Allan Schwam, Oxford; Anibal Patricio, Nqssau; Maria Almeida, Leonard Ave.; D. Martyniuk, Bellevue; Deborah Cowman, Wales Ave; Jeff Stinson, Leonard Place; Mr. M. Almeida, Leonard Ave; Leslie Lam, Carlyle; Mimi Shui,; Terri Hope, Scadding Court; Madalena Silva, St. Stephen's; Zoltan Fekete, Kensington Task Force. Representative of hospital, to be announced. Schwam,speaking "as chairman of the Kensington Task Force" challenged the idea tha~ "bigger means better health care" and challenged the hospital to "tell us why" it needs more space to deliver better service. Several other speakers returned to this point: questioning the idea that this new style of health care, or even the new technology, necessarily takes up more space than the old style. Several people from Nassau and Lippincott spoke of their concerns relating to traffic and noise, especially frustration concerning noise of deliveries to Nassau Street. Biggest concern here was the Medigas oxygeh tank which sometimes gets filled late at night. 0 n e resident warned people not to see the plan being put forward as final. He has lived here, he said, for fifteen years and during that whole time the hospital has been building one thing or- another. Why should we think that this will be the end of it, if they get what they want now? BOTH SIDES OF BATHURST Several people, from the areas on both sides of Bathurst spoke about WORK GROUP problems of hospital ~mplo~ees When the question-and-comment parking in the surroundmg netgh- part of the meeting ended, the bourhood. Someone from Mark- selection of the work group began. ham Street said people on hi~ street The chairman suggested that they were worri~ .about the hetght of were looking for around twelve !he Fell Pavtlton .. The two fl~s people. He proposed three from JUSt. add~,. he satd, are alrea Y local community agencies, one castmg stgruficant new shadows on from the hospital one from the their street. An~ several people Kensington Task 'Force and one inside and outstde the meetmg . were worn 'ed a bout the emissions ~ch from · seven 1 blocks adJacent to from the hospital's smokestack and the hosptta. incinerator. Regarding the proposed C0 ."?P• But twenty five people volunteered, including in some cases some people expr~sed op~st!t~n several people from the same.block to the idea of "soctal housmg 10 but with different language backtheir neiglibourhood, s~me grounds and skills. After some expressed concern about the hetght discussion, the decision was made and number of units. There were not to cut down the membership at questions about ho~ the commun- this stage, but rather to invite all ity could have a say to the co-op as volunteers to the first group meetit developed, in particular in te~ ing. The date of September 25 was of a say into who gets to .hve agreed to--7pm at Scadding Court there. And there were questions again. Almost all volunteers about how pepple in the local area showed up for that meeting, and could be assured that they would October 9 and 23 have been set for have a chance to get in to the co- the next two meetings, in the op, if applications were .going ~0 be filled from a metro-wtde watt- Bathurst Loun~e inside the hospi tal. iJlg list. Attention all merchants 111 Are . the weekend parking woes driving business away? / Tell your customers ... YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT!!!! Try the hospital's visitor parking: p pon1 . 11 .101 11 A h n r=-,~ COLLEn~ II lA R I I:: ~~~·~ _ ........... IO~FOR.OSTREET _ ..... 1~1 ~ ILJLJt .: p :n.IIR CEQCST. K I I ~ • ! j" ... .,..., J~l I K : E-: I ~ BALDWIN STREET Ill ! ·DI II DENISON SQUARE .. ST. ANDREW tLJJD; ,, I N ~ WAC~ ~o~ ~~ I rlN , G I I r~"~i I I. . , IG ~~~ D~NOAS STREET WEST~ . I • MINUTES AWAY!!! $3.50 flat-rate (This information is a service of the Kensington Market Business Association phone Bert, 923-9270) I •
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