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Comments on: No patio for Parts and Labour https://gleanernews.ca/no-patio-for-parts-and-labour/ Serving Toronto's most liveable community with the Annex Gleaner Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:24:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Parkdale resident https://gleanernews.ca/no-patio-for-parts-and-labour/comment-page-1/#comment-1955 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:54:15 +0000 http://gleanernews.ca/?p=1307#comment-1955 I would love a roof top Patio. The revived night life in Queen west did wonders for that neighbourhood that was spearhead by places like the Drake (wonderful roof top patio there). There was the same negative sentiment to those establishments in the beginning and infact those establishments ended up cleaning up the area more than the local residents. Good luck Parts + Labour and thanks for taking a chance with Parkdale!

]]> By: Matt https://gleanernews.ca/no-patio-for-parts-and-labour/comment-page-1/#comment-1509 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:22:10 +0000 http://gleanernews.ca/?p=1307#comment-1509 Yeah, this place has a capacity of over 400 people. They don’t need more. People’s bedroom windows are just a few metres away from where a patio would hypothetically be.

Anyway, can we please not turn Parkdale into Ossington: The Sequel?

]]> By: J. L. Campbell https://gleanernews.ca/no-patio-for-parts-and-labour/comment-page-1/#comment-1488 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:44:10 +0000 http://gleanernews.ca/?p=1307#comment-1488 I for one (there are many other) am pleased the city’s Committee of Adjustment panel turned down the request by Parts and Labour for a roof-top patio. Between Brock Avenue and Gwynne (the area in which I reside), there are several so-called restaurants that open late to serve liquor and offer entertainment until the early hours of the morning. On leaving these establishments at 2 a.m., the inebriated patrons stand in groups on neighbourhood streets to converse loudly, often with beer bottles in hand, or they roam the streets demonstrating raucous behaviour and yelling obscenities. Some nights the level of noise is enough to wake the dead, and certainly those who had hoped they might get a good night sleep.

Mornings after I find myself sweeping up garbage, broken beer bottles and hosing down vomit off the sidewalk. Bar owners do have the responsibility to exercise control over how much alcohol is served to any individual (to limit consumption before drunkenness), and the level of noise in and outside their premises, and owners ought to be taken to task on this…

Parkdale is a neighbourhood, and like most consist of a residential area serviced by businesses that includes grocery stores, dry cleaners, medical facilities, schools, libraries, etc., and yes, restaurants and bars. But how many bars does a residential area need? Most of the people that patron these late night bars/entertainment establishments are not from the area. It has become evident, and a concern for many of the Parkdale residents that their neighbourhood may become the next club district. I do not believe this is in the best interests of, or preferred by the Parkdale community.

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