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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 four, Kensington Market Drum October 1991 NEW BY-LAW TO PERMIT SOME RESTAURANTS; HOPE FOR MORE APARTMENTS by David Perlman , t ~ •. Over the . summer city council brought in a new by-law requiring that any new restaurant, take-out or bakeshop or place of entertainment provide one parking space for every 330 sq. ft. of space. And it prohibited altogether any new restaurant larger than 2000 sq. ft. At the same time it offered people the opportunity to build apartments / above .stores, with the first three apartments built having no required parking. The long-awaited by-law replaced the control by-law which has prevented any new restaurant opening legally in kensington since July 1981. But the new by-law made no-one happy. Businesses could see no ~---· . reason for picking on small restaurants--large ones, like those on this part of Spadina, are seen . as the source of the traffic and parking problems. Small ethnic restaurants are seen as part of Kensington's unique vibrancy. Similarly -the "no parking for the first three apartments" didn't please housing advocates or property owners--because the by-law also said that if a fourth parking space went in, the previous by-law would apply. This would mean if someone put in four apartments instead of three, they'd then have to provide four parking spaces instead of none. This meant either people would have to put in one and a half storeys--not economical, or else three very small apartments on one floor--not comfortable. Task force members put pressure on--proposing two changes: first, that for restaurants the first 1000 sq. ft be exempt from providing parking; second, that a fourth apartment should incur one parking space, not the whole four liable under the previous by-law. City Councillor Amer rose to the task force challenge--steering the amendment through council at the end of July. But the city solicitor stepped in just as it appeared council would approve the changes. His argument was that the amendment would have to go back to land use committee to give members of the public a chance to object, if they wanted to. above 1000 sq. ft. So back to land-use it went, on - And people wanting to build Sept 19. The item was called out apartments above a store will be and explained, and the committee able to build three without parking, chair, Councillor Nowlan asked if and a fourth provided they come anyone was there to oppose it. No- up with one parking space. one was. "A Kensington by-law For more detailed information on with no-one opposed? That's a the new by-law (number 414-91, first" said one councillor. So now as amended), contact area planner the amendments go to council Susanne Pringle at 392-7740. where, we have' been assured, there should be no objection. All going as predicted, by the beginning of October, within the commercial Kensington market, new restaurantS may now be opened, provided they are under 2000 square feet, on the ground floor only, and provide one parking space for every330 sq. ft . . . . . . . . • • • • • • • • Scadding Court Community Centre & Sanderson Library are hosting an ')flNflE~·.sr-i\1@\~~~~·~~)i_ c ... cAnP1N6 W.H~( .fi:./fr. rf 11 '< All Candidates Meeting Tuesday, October 29, 1991 at 7:00pm at Scadding Court 707 Dundas Street West (at Bathurst)' Hear the Candidates for Ward 24 Metro Councillor, Ward 5 City Councillor and School Trustees speak on Issues you're concerned about. Bring your questions! For Information: Marl Creal at Scadding Court - 363-5392 Barrie Gray Sanderson Library - 393-7{153 Judith Brady Sanderson Library - 393-7653 ;M'· /" Pill f.li~ .:. ''7'1/- ':0 "'t" -lllj -·· ~ 11; eft '!/! v' )- ;,J' {rf_~ L'f:_ )¥ ·*· !;, 'rf *-· r11fi\ : - I& k -·Jf- r foi .:::. f' iL B ~~.Jfl .:::. . ~~ J::. L 1fo,r JC J:®~. : c,(f1oDiN~ cour-r :f.i:..ib tf ·~ . N 7 ~ 4J --1: ti91$j (~ ~ -:t 1}1 ~-* )~ ~.1' ~~;g ;:_ : Ut tfl -=- -r1:JJ ~ /0 t $> if 1' %~ ~. J!z_ ~ .tz... k& ~ f ~~ ~ 1lfh.) } l . -r,_ ~ #~ ltg 1~:R ~PI/] $~ ,t{@ J~ ~i 1fK 11' 8 J r.lr a~J 1%. lr:J 1 ~ c ~feJ~~ .. 3/::~ -.531.2. SCADO!Vtr [t·tJf2T .f±.. iff' rjz-,~ ( fJ] MfV!./ l'KF..IJL ) 3 Cf 3 - 7 { C,3 :'>fW {)CIZ.SUN 1f,-fJ ff'~ (/~~ g,ql(fZ'{ t,f/1'( r\ 1UD!fri 8R!WY) • • • • • • • • • • r-------· • • • • • • • • I - 0 Centro Comunitario de Scndding Court e ~ Bibllote~R Snnder~on Estao R patrocinar uma Reuniao com todos os candidates as eleicoes Venham ouvir os candidates para: Terca-Feira, Dia 29 de Outubro, 1991 as 7:00 da noite na Scndding Court 707 DundB.s St. W. (na Bathurst) Vereador Metropolitano, Vereador Da Cidade e Concelheiros E~colares falarem sobre assuntos do vos~o interesBe. ~- · . .-' Trnp;nm A.~ VORf'IR~ queAt.OeR ...... Para mats informacoes telefone para Marl Creal - 363-5392 (da Scadding Court) Ba.rry Gra.y ou Judith Brady - • 393- 7653 (ambos dR Biblioteca Sanderson) LEE'S POULTRY STOPPED AGAIN. by Drum Staff --~ I ! • I -·~· ·~·,·~· \~\~':{\~ ' •\;~:· ·- ' ' ·~\~·· --'' _;. :~ ;·' . ~~ ,. . - ... I . ,.·: • ' r .... . . . ~~ti1-i1 'q, 4-~ ~~! ~ ·~
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. October 1991 Kensington Market Drum, page five public service announcement · public service announcement public service announcement public service announcement public service announcement public se.rvice announcement drum psa your only chance to h-ave your say concerning Metro's pl-an for .a Spadina LRT IS NOW!! Metro didn't ask us to run the following ad, folks, but we really thought you ought to know: only people who write to the minister now (before October 31) will have any right to be heard if there is an environmental hearing into metro's proposed Spadina LRT. (And there's no guarantee, unl ess people write to the minister, that there even will be a hearing.) .....-.t....eA~ AN INVITATION TO -COMMENT -R~SI'B -~t!~WLY by Jeff Stinson Background. Toronto Hospital Corporation has a parking garage at 55 Leonard Ave, in a poor state of repair. It is on a lot zoned residential, but the hospital had permission to build the garage. At the urging of some community people, the hospital agreed to look at the possibility of putting the parking on the lot underground (provided they got it free) and putting housing above. One proposal for how this might be done wc;s presented to the community back in April. Jeff Stinson, who lives on the. same block as the garage, and is now a member of the hospital plan work group, was at that meeting and offered the following thoughts. ·THE HOSPITAL AND THE COMMUNITY For some years now the Kensington community and the Western General Hospital (now part of Toronto General Hospital) have been struggling to arrive at a mutually satisfactory process for dealing with the hospital's development plans. A few months ago, the hospital called a public meeting to show- and gain citizen input into--it's latest moves. This initiative was welcomed, and a number of local residents attended. Some of them were people whose homes would be directly affected by hospital expansion--others were present simply out of concern for the neighbourhood as a whole. c_ The hospital administration and various consultants described changes within the main block of the hospital including enlargement of the south tower and the construction of a large new facility on the north-west comer. In addition they described new proposals for the Leonard Avenue parking garage. The parking question and the amount of traffic' generated on neighbourhood streets were issues linking both blocks but the Leonard Avenue scheme was the focus of most attention. Briefly the hospital sees the existing garage as a deteriorating structure. They would like to replace it and expand it) at minimal cost. They have called in for developer proposals to do this and are recommending a scheme which combines the parking requirement (under- . ground) with a large co-op housing apartment. To generate enough income to achieve the parking garage without any cost to the hospital, the developer proposes to build a 183 unit, eight storey building on Leonard Avenue. l*f this had been simply a sketch proposed for discussion the process might have been considered reasonable but the audience at the meeting was disconcerted to dis' cover by questioning that the proposals being exhibited had already been submitted several days prior to the meeting for some early city approvals. "Nothing is cast in stone" --a hasty reassurance from the consultants, did nothing to alleviate the citizens suspicions that the whole meeting was little more than elaborate window-dressing- information rather than consultation. These suspicions were heightened by the conventional developer tactics adopted by the Hospital and its consultants. First the hospital warned that to reject the scheme would make Kensington residents responsible for increased health costs. Then the developer presenting the building design "did not bring along" the Leonard Avenue facade drawing (the big one) and when the north face was · shown, the upper floor~ were rendered very lightly, as though they were rather insubstantial. The residents of kensington are not ·simpletons. We were not party to placing the hospital at this lqcation, or to its acquisition policy or to the Toronto Hospital rationalisation" or any other of the basic factors which have produced this situation. "Health care costs" can hardly be laid at our doorstep. By this kind of logic a 30-storey building would be even better. · continued on page 8 ON THE. ENVIRONMENTAL . ASSESSMENT FOR THE PROPOSED SPADINA LRT ·· · · THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT ACT SUBSECTION 7(1) NOTICE OF ~OMPLETION OF REVIEW · An environmental assessment has_ been Submitted by the Toronto Transit CommissiOn and The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto for a proposed light rail transit (LRT} service along Spadina Avenue in the City of Toronto. Before a decision is made on acceptance of this environmental assessment, you have the right to submit comments on the proposed undertaking, the environmental assessment and the review documents. You also have the right, subject to the discretion of the Minister, to require a hearing. HOW DO YOU GET THE INFORMATION YOU HiED?;) You may inspect the documents during normal business hours at the following Ontario Environ(llent Ministry offices: Environmental Assessment Branch 5th Floor, 250 Davisville Avenue Toronto, Ontario M4S tH2 .. (4161440-3450 Central Region.Office· 4th Floor, 7 Overlea Blvd, · Toronto, Ontario M4H 1A8 . I (416)424.3000 . ' . Copies are also available - ~~ the clerks' offices of The f.lunicipality of Metropolitan Toronto and the City of Toronto. Please ·submit your written . . comments and/or requests for a hearing so they are received no . later than October 31, 1991. Send them to: . Spadina LRT Environmental Assessment Ruth Grier Minister of the Environment 15th Floor 135 St. Clair Avenue West Toronto, On.tario M4V 1P5 PROPOSBD SPADINA UlT llotn'B SPADlNA STA'l10N TO lloWIOilRI'ItQN LilT TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS YOUR VIEWS If you make a submission or require a hearing before October 31, 1991; you will be notified of any decisions about this environmental assessment You will also have the opportunity to require a hearing on whether the undertaking itself should be approved. If you do not make a submission or require a hearing the matter may proceed without further notice to you. If no submisSions or requirements for a hearing are received, the environmental assessmant may lie accepted antlthe undertaking approved with no further public notice, allowing the Toronto Transit Commission and The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto to proceed. ~ Environment \JlJ Environnement
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