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260 Augusta at Committee of Adjustment, July 11
St. Stephen's wins,-- sort of
BY DAVID PERLMAN
July 11 at City Hall, St.
Stephen's Community House was
awarded a significant decision in
their favour. The City's committee
of adjustment ruled that the City
has no basis to interfere in St.
Stephen's plans for 260 Augusta.
But neighbourhood opposition
at the meeting was fierce, particularly
to the idea of relocating the
Corner Drop-In to the basement at
260 Augusta. The Corner Drop-in
a food-and-other services program
for the homeless which is pres-
" ently located at 360 College
Street, at the top of Bellevue
Avenue.
Market opponents of relocating
the Corner Drop-In to 260
Augusta now have twenty days to
appeal the city's decision to the
Ontario Municipal Board, and are
reportedly well on the way to
raising the $30,000-$50,000 that
will be needed for such an appeal.
Whether or not opponents of
11 the plan go to the OMB, one thing
was clear from the meeting. St.
Stephen's has some major neighbourhood
concerns to address
before going ahead with the
relocation of the Corner Drop-In
to 260 Augusta.
If they don't, or won't, or
can't, then they will have won a
victory in their bid to provide a
vital community service. But the
price may be their hard-won
reputation as a neighbourhood
organization.
One long-time resident, who
did not wish to be named, put it
this way: "This is not about St.
Stephen's as a community organization,
this is about St. Stephen's
as a neighbour."
EARLY WARNING
First sign that the July 11 meeting
was going to be a tough one came
,, early. The committee of adjustment
realized they would never be
able to accommodate the nearly
300 people wanting to attend the
meeting. So the meeting had to be
moved to a larger room. And
when the chair of the committee,
Doug Lee, asked for.people
opposed to sit on one side of the
room and people supporting to sit
on the other, about two thirds of
the people moved to the "opposed"
side.
(Declaration of interest: The
writer of this article David
Perlman, sat on the side oj the
room supporting St. Stephen 's.
See Talking DRUM: Us and
Them on page 2.)
MOTION TO
POSTPONE DEFEATED
First to speak was lawyer and
former east end city c.ouncillor
Steve Ellis. He spoke on behalf of
Gustav Fisher and the Kensington .
Market Businessmen's Association,
which Ellis said was the
oldest of Kensington's Business
Associations, incorporated by
1 Ontario charter in 1962. Ellis'
argument, supported-by several
people owning property near 260
Augusta, was that the committee
had not given proper notification
and the meeting should therefore
be postponed
The request for postponement
gram, but should be on an arterial
street. This program is just too
big" be said. "It destabilizes the
delicate balance of the market".
NEIGHBOURS SPEAK
When Burns and Vaughan had
finished, several other people
weighed in with comments.
Michael Rosen,berg said he
has an office at 254 Auguta and he
was fine with the proposed basement
use, but his concern was
with the uses proposed for the
main floor. "What concerns me is
St. Stephen's economic develop-
260 Augusta ment activities" he said. "They
was refused, and the meeting got program (rpe Corner Drop-In) will make the Market more like
under way. from College Street to the base- the rest of the city. To minimize
ment at 260 Augusta. He ques- .. the effect of these development
ST. STEPHEN'S CASE tioned whether the basement could activieties, he said, St Stephen's
Presenting the argument for St. be ~sed for these purposes rather should be strictly limited to the
Stephen's was Andrew Pruss, a than for storag~. existing amount of space, and not
member of Zev Daniels Architects The planmng consult_ant who be given the variance.
Inc (the company hired by St. spoke next, Mr Scott Burns, said Cristina Enrietti-Zoppo, a
Stephen's for the project). that he, alo_ng with Mr Vaughan, resident of Oxford Street, just east
St Stephen's, he said, has had_ been h1red to :epresent of Augusta, said she had joined
been in the neighbourhood since busmesses and res1dents . the side opposed strictly because
1962, and serves 22,000 people a Most of his clients' concerns of the food services program.
year, including new Canadians, were around the basement food "The security arouncl here is not
children, youth, the homeless and program and kitchen. So he had that great as it is," she said. "I
the unemployed. looked at similar programs· in the have a little L-shaped street, Ellen
260 Augusta, he said, was city. At 300 meals a day, the St Street--behind me. Daily I must
built in 1979 as the A Tasca Stephen's food program would be clean out syringes, condoms,
restaurant. And in 1984 it was one of the largest. And most crack cans and excrement."
renovated to add a 13-room similar programs, (All Saints, This plan, she said, can only
rooming house on the second Fr~d _Y ictor, Good Shepherd, ~cott ·add to the danger unless drastic
floor. MlSSlon) were located on artenal provisions are made. "Right now I
St. Stephen's, he said, would roads, unlike Augusta which is a have people sleeping on my porch,
be making changes only to the "narrow local road" forcing us poor citizens to clean
interior of the building. And the St. Stephen's provides good up after them. I understand the
use proposed for the building was . services, he said, including this_ need of the food progr-am but not
permitted by the City's by-laws for one. But he doubted whether th1s here unless they can show they can
Kensington. was the right location. Retail uses control it. There must be a corn-
Only two things, he said, are the most sensitive to the street prehensive plan for security in
required a ruling from the City. environment, he said. "Loitering, place before."
One: the second floor was and three people in or out of the Mr. John Howe of 26 Oxford
3.4 %too large. Two: the overall Drop-In every minute between 8 spoke of his concern that .Oxford
gross floor area (GFA) of the and 11 in the morning would Street would "become a funnel for
building was 18.8% too large. detract from the Market's retail . street people" and said that
Both of these variances, he environment," he said. Kensington is already doing its
said, were minor. The A Tasca As it related to the food share for the economically
restaurant already had a permit program, he said, the variance disadvan-taged. St. Stephen's
allowing 395 tenants and custom- could not be considered minor, should be strictly held to existing ·
ers plus staff in the building at any because of its impact on other uses densities, he said, because there
one time. St. Stephen's was of the street. "It is a good pro- was a "delicate balance" in the
proposing a maximun of 279
people in the building at any one
time. Kensington, he said is a
25 Leon·ard --
"mixed use" area in the City plan
and is also recognized as an "area
of special identity.'' The City plan
encourages the existence of
agencies in such areas, provided
the premises are used for community
uses, and "supply a level of
institutional service which meets
the needs of the communitv."
So the issue, he sa1d, was not
the uses of the building. The uses
are permitted under the zoning bylaw.
The only question for the
committee to decide was whether
the variances (the 3.4% on the
second floor and the 18.8%
overall) were minor.
LAWYER V AUGHANAND
PLANNER BURNS REPLY
Next to speak was Michael
Vaughan, a lawyer. He had been
hired, he said, by some neighbourhood
merchants and residents.
No-one, he said, wanted to
oppose St. Stephen's, because it
does a lot of good work. But even
charitable organizations are not
exempt from the provisions of the
planning act. His clients' main
quarrel, he said, was with the
relocation of the food services
first step
Housing proposal clears committee of adiustment
Also at committee of adjustment
July 11 was an application by a
group called St. Clare's Multifaith
Housing Coalition, to convert the
medical building at 25 Leonard
into a rental apartment building.
The application was heard right
after St Stephen's application for
260 Augusta, and like the St.
Stephen's application, it was
approved by the committee.
Presenting the applkation
for St Clare's Multifaith were Ron
Mann, a resident of Casimir
Street, representing Kensington
Community Housing, and an
architect, Dean Goodman, representing
St Clare Multifaith, who
explained that the proposal was to
convert the existing offices into 51
one- bedroom and bachelor
apartments, as many as possible of
which would be RGI (rent-gearedto-income).
Speaking against the
appllcatton were two
existing tenants of the
building, as well as
several residents from
neighbouring streets.
The two tenants of the
building were a Mr.
Gilbert who runs a
pharmacy in the building
and a Dr. Raymond
Matthews. Mr Gilbert
said that there are still
11 tenants in the building,
7 with existing
leases, and that the
impact of what is going on. will be
to force existing tenants out of the
building because it will be impossible
to continue with construction
going on. The other tenant, a Dr.
Raymond Matthews said he
supported the concerns of Mr.
Gilbert, and added that the existing
building exceeds allowable
densities for the lot by 40%, so the
Market.
A resident of Bellevue A venue
said she has spent all 25 years of
her life here and intends to raise
her family here. "Kensington has
broken window syndrome" she
said "meaning we have let the
neighbourhood run down. When
people see a window that no-one
repairs they take it as a sign that
no-one cares."
The food services program
will become another broken
window, she said. "It says it's ok
for less desirable things to come
in. It targets us as a dumping
ground."
One other speaker, Mr Farhan
Abbas, owner of 280 Augusta,
recently converted from long term
rooming house to a more upmarket
short-stay hostel, said he
was also opposed, but challenged
·the idea that food service programs
on arterial streets would be
any better. And that he could see
by the body language of one of the
members of the committee that the
member was already biased
against the opponents · of the
application.
LAST WORD TO
ST.STEPHEN'S
As is usual at committee of
adjustment, when objections have
been heard, last word goes to the
applicant.
The application is only about
density, not use, said architect
Andrew Pruss. All the proposed
uses are already in the community
-- the Corner Drop In at 360
College, the ESL at 91 Bellevue,
the Youth Services at 340 College.
The figure of 300 meals. a day is
the maximum. The sidewalks on
that block of Augusta are even
wider than College or Spadina.
And St. Stephen's is a respected
member of the community,
spending a lot of money on a
vacant building.
Finally a Mr. Craig Colraine
See Sr. STEPHENS, NEXT PAGE
Looking west to east. Roof of 25 Leonard is at
bottom right, with Bellevue Ave backyards
immediately beyond it
variance is not minor.
The residents who spoke echoed
many of the same concerns as
raised in connection with 260
Augusta. Ann Jaeger, whose home
on Bellevue borders directly on 25
Leonard spoke of "increased
densities of troubled people
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Us -and them
An opinion about 260 Augusta
by David Per/man
As stated in our main story,
I supported St Stephen 's
application for 260 August a
arCity Hall Tuesday July 11
-- an action not popular with
many of my market neighbours
attending the meeting.
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I did so for four reasons. But having the right
Reasons one, two and three doesn't mean ramming things
are just my personal opin- through. The big message for
ions. Take them or leave St. Step hen's now is the same
them. The fourth, however, I -as the one we gave Toronto ·
hope you will consider as a Western Hospital about their
suggestion:. incinerator fi_ve years ago -­
being a very good community
First: I have worked in
service organization doesn't
Kensington alongside people
automatically make them a
good neighbour. ·
How St. Stephen 's
chooses to exercise their
rights at 260 Augusta will
define their relationship with
Se_cond: I have watched the the neighbourhood for years
development of the Corner to come.
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on Augusta Avenue in the But let's face it. Future
late eighties to its move to problems are only part of the
College Street. Based on the picture. Kensington Market
damage control they learned has massive economic
to do up there, I don't problems right now.
believe the Drop-In would be Th.at's why it's great to
as big a problem as most of see the merchants of the
my neighbours think, if it Market getting organized
comes to t~fi top block of about something, anything!
Augusta .
But the big question is will
Third: My conscience. Start mercha~ts stay organized
targeting wholegroups of once thzs.uproa~ ow~r 260
people as undesirable, and Augusta zs over: ~zll they
who will be next? every becorr:e more l_'Vll~zng to
pierced kid who dares to contnbute thezr tzme, energy
hang out or sit on the and money to the general
ground?
well-being ofthe Market?
Up to this point, years
Fourth: j think this issue can without sustained, positive,
be solved ·directly between .
collective action by the
St. Step.hen 's and the neighbourhood.
Us and them. We big reason the market is in
market's merchants is a very
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face than spending -tens of
can't blame St. Stephen 's for
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Sr. STEPHEN's,
introduced himself as a
solicitor retained by St.
Stephen's anfd said he had
one brief point to make.
"The legal issue is not about
the use of the premises" he
said. "It is about the 18%
extra space making it easier
for St. Stephen's to do their
work in the building. But the
building will be used for
those purposes no matter
whether we_ get that extra
space or not. "
DECISION TIME
The three-person committee
can huddle to discuss before
deciding. They can even
issue no decision on the day
continued
and notify people in writing
later about the outcome. Or
they can decide on the spot
with no further discussion.
Which is whast they did.
Application approved.
Outside in the halls the
shouting went on for a long
time. Accusations and threats
flew . Local councillor Olivia
Chow stayed to face the
music, but probably wished
she hadn't.
The "winners" and their
supporters didn't look like
they had much to celebrate.
"We have a lot of work to
do" said Bill Sinclair, St.
Stephen's program director
"building bridges ... ".
25 LEONARD, continued
coming into Kensington"
DRUM asked Jon
rather than the project Harstone, spokesperson for
dealing with existing prob- St. Clare Multifaith to
!ems of homelessness in the respond to these questions.
Market. She also expressed "It won't be superconcerns
that the arrea vised if you mean supervised
behind the building was a like a shelter" he said.
v'ery insecure area, posing "Anyone living here will
problems of security for all have to be capable of living
the adjoining Bellevue independently. But it will
backyards. And she ques- have a full-time superintendtioned
the need for the city's ent living in the building so
requirement that six parking there is someone to deal with
spaces be added to the north tenant issues 24 hours a
of the building.
day."
Joseph Almeida,
On choosing tenants,
living on Leonard Street a he said that it is too soon to
few doors south of the tell, because a lot will
building, said his elderly depend on exactly where the
neighbours were terrified funding for the pPJject comes
about security, worried about from. "But we want to help
who would. be living there, people who do not have
concerned about increases in personal housing at this time.
crime and prostitution in the .. . Definitely people who can
area, bunoo 1h1im'i0afea ,...__ fo6k~anenli.eillselves."
because of language to come And on the question of
out to the meeting.
comniunity involvement?
And outside the
"Once we close the
meeting another resident of deal to buy the building we
Bellevue A venue said she will know where our money
and her neighbours were is coming from and what is
mostly concerned with three expected by our funders. I
things: how the building can promise that at that
would be supervised, how point, before any tenants are
tenants would be chosen, and selected, we will hold a
what voice the neighbour- public meeting in the neighhood
would have in how the bourhood."
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Saturday, August 12 and Sunday; August 13, 2000
The Market's Summer Party
The Kensington Market Summer Festival will take
place on Saturday, August 12 and Sunday,
August 13. The two day event will bring together
the best of the cultural and artistic elements of
Kensington in an event that is firmly rooted in the
community and is only possible with heavy local
involvement.
The Festival will focus on the following areas:
Music, visual arts, spoken word, children's
activities, fashion, food, community action area
and Kensington history. As this is the Millennia!
Festival, special attention w(ll be paid to the
historic,al roots of Kensington. ·
The Festival Committee has been meeting for
months to plan this year's Festival and has been
holding a series of open monthly meetings to
give everyone a chance to have their say about
the shape of the Festival. The next open
community meeting will take place on Tuesday,
. August 1, at 7 p.m. at Kings Cafe, located at
192 Augusta Avenue.
Call416-515-7740 for information
www. kensingtonfestival.com
Augusta Comes ~live .
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Jo make room for the party some streets in the
Market will be closed to traffic. ·
Saturday August 12, 1 Oam -11 pm
Augusta Avenue from Denison Square to
cc:>uege St. '
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K4itnt;ington Avenue from Baldwin to St. Andrew
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Baldwin from Augusta to Spadina
Parking will not be permitted on Augusta Avenue
from Denison Square to College Street between
the hours of 10 a.m. and 11 p.m. However,
merchants will still have access for necessary
deliveries. If you are a merchant or a local resident
"who needs to park in the area, we are making
1 ;ammgements for parking for you. If you think you
Wil.l need parking phone: 515-7740.
Who We Are
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The .Kensington Market Summer Festival is presented by the
Kensington Festival Committee in association with St.
Stephen's Community House, and with the support of KMAC,
the Toronto Arts Council, the City of Toronto, though the
Community Festivals Programme and the Millennia! Project
Programme, Scadding Court, the Bronfman Foundation, the
Kensington Health Centre, Friends of Community Schools
and numerous local merchants.
Kids Activities
Along with the special Children's Carnival presentation
there will be a bunch of other activities for kids: face
painting, story-telling, magic, music and games. lt all
happens in Bellevue Square 'Park!
Bags 0' Fun
Coming.soon to a shop near you! Kensington Summer
Festival shopping bags. They're great promotion, they're
colourful and they're free!
For KOAR Information call: (416) 531 .,0528
email: manifeststudio@hotmail.com
The Chi\dren's Car~iva\
One of the highlights of this year's Ken'sington
Market Summer Festival will be a presentation of a
play entitled "The Children's Carnival." Adapted
from a wonderful story by south Africari writer
Pedro Espi-Sanchis, the performance on Saturday,
August 12 and Sunday, August 13, will be
combination of music, theatre, instrument making
and Kensington histo-ry.
The_project is being developed through a series of
workshops held in cooperation with Ryerson Public
School, Kensington & Horizon Community Schools
and St. Stephen's Community House. Workshops
are suitable for children from the age of 3 to young
adults. Children under the age of 10 must be
accompanied by an adult.
There are still parts available in the carnival, and
lots of room for extra musicians.' And we still need
parents to help' out with behind-the-scenes stuff.
For information on how to get involved in these
free, fun, and educational workshops call Barb
Morrison at (416) 598-7776.
Fifteen Minutes of Flame
This year's food theme at the Festival is the
barbecue. As well as live barbie demos, we are
putting together a recipe book of local flame
favourites. If you want yourself and your recipe
immortalized in the Festival cookbook, call lnta at
(416) 920-8798
Historical Tours
They're back. One of the most popular activities at
the Summer Festival is tours of historical
Kensington, led by local history buffs and
coordinated by City of Toronto Culture Division.
Tours vyill take place on Saturday, August 12
beginning at 1, 2, and 3 p.m.
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KOAR Sparks the Park
The 4th annual Kensington Outdoor Art Revue .
(KOAR) in Bellevue Park will be an important part
of the 2000 Festival. We anticipate the
involvement of approximately 60 artists·. The
works of art will be displayed in Bellevue Park on
Saturday and in various places throughout the
Market on Sunday.
Clothes to You
The Festival Fashion show has become a
mainstay of the Festival and a real audience
favourite. The Fashion show will , feature the
best efforts of Kensington-based fashion
designers, as well as a look at Kensington fashion
thorough the. years So far, the following
merchants will be participating in our Fashion
Show:
Eza Wear, Fresh Baked Goods, Dancing Days, Flash
Back, Jaggs, Roach-0.-Rama, Exile, Astro, Usoto,
Zimmerman's, Tom's Place, Courage My Love,
Sim&Jones, Ziliotto Deign, Feline Woman, and [e
Gossip.
Look for the show to take place at 4:00p.m.,
Saturda·y, August 12, ori the Augusta A~enue
stage.
Music
The music at the Festival will be a multicultural stew,
ranging from the fiery flamenco of Roger Scanurra
and the regga~r grooves of Adrian Miller to the
Aboriginal pdp of ·Nadjiwan and the South African
roots of Lempani. . · ·
Some Highlights
For 28 year's Vezi has run Kensington Sound. This
year marks his first performance on a festival stage.
About time, eh? Fprmer Shuffle Demon Richard
Underhill logs in with his group Astrogrobve,
promising big beat grooves, haunting textures, and
breakneck jungfe. Look for a possible coll~boratioA
between Underhill and dub poet Clifton Joseph.
Market alumnus Archie Alleyne (and partner Dougie
Richardson) is looking forward to returning to his
Kensington home with a set of cool jazz. And
perennial favourites the Nationals are guaranteed to
rip the night open with some hot blues.
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Barb Morrison, 416-598-7776
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