Can a park’s past set the tone for its future?

Had the Spadina Expressway been built, there might have been a development like St. James Town west of Yonge Street. The city had rezoned the area, and a developer had quietly purchased many of the 32 properties on Robert and Sussex avenues. COURTESY CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES

By Nicholas Provart

Fifty years ago, around the same time that the City of Toronto was planning the Spadina Expressway, urban planners had a bold vision for the area surrounded by Robert Street, Sussex Avenue, Bloor Street, and Spadina Avenue. The thought was to build two tall towers and create another St. James Town. The city rezoned the area, and a developer quietly purchased many of the 32 properties on Robert and Sussex avenues.

The residents who lived in the area, however, were not so quiet. The Sussex Area Residents’ Association responded with an 80-page report detailing their grievances. They highlighted the loss of affordable housing both for students and owners of the houses in the area, increased density, and limited green space. They also underscored the lack of recognition of how the area functioned “in the creation of the Canadian nation”, absorbing successive waves of immigrants.

By June 1967, the rezoning was repealed, and the developers, University of Toronto and City of Toronto agreed to what’s become known as the Aura Lee Transfer.

The city wanted to extend Ramsden Park, between Roxborough and Pears avenues, all the way to Avenue Road. The university’s Aura Lee Playing Field was just east of Avenue Road at the west end of Ramsden Park, and the developer had properties on the south side of Pears Avenue.

Instead of purchasing the playing field, the developer exchanged its Robert Street land for the Aura Lee Playing Field. By 1968, the developer had enough land to build two towers on Pears Avenue, and received permission to build from the city by pledging the northerly 1.6 acres of Aura Lee lands to create the western extension of Ramsden Park.

In 1968-69, deaf to affordable housing concerns, the university tore down 32 houses on Robert Street and Sussex Avenue to create the Robert Street Field. It was well used by the community, and a skating rink and tennis courts were built on the site.

In 1971, the university and the city came to what council called an exemplary agreement: the public would be able to use the facilities and the city would pay the cost of maintaining them.

The city also created a children’s play area at the site’s south end, now a parkette on Sussex Avenue, and the University of Toronto Schools built its own changing facilities for the rink house.

In 1973, the university renamed the Robert Street Field the Aura Lee Playing Field.

Over 20 years later, and the university’s once lauded behaviour isn’t quite so exemplary.

The rink’s ice making equipment — deemed the university’s responsibility in the agreement with the city — failed in 1998, the university is storing an army of garbage cans (including, oddly, garbage cans labelled “Ryerson”) on the rink, there’s snow fencing in lieu of nets on the pitted tennis courts, and the university’s ground crews are using what was once the three original tennis courts as storage space for landscaping materials.

With this history, it’s no wonder local residents have a sense of déjà vu about the university’s plan to build a student residence on the northeast corner of Sussex and Spadina avenues.

It would be an interesting exercise to have students from the university’s architecture program reimagine this area with a view to incorporating heritage and green space. Or if the university is unable to maintain the rinks and the tennis courts, perhaps the land could be given to the city for much-needed green space.

Nicholas Provart is a member of the Harbord Village Residents’ Association. This article is condensed from the original version, which appears on the association’s website www.harbordvillage.com. It has been reprinted with the writer’s permission.

Residents still concerned about BSUC proposal

COURTESY KPMB ARCHITECTS An artist’s rendering of the proposed redevelopment of Bloor Street United Church. The heritage aspects of the church will be restored, and a 38-storey mixed-use tower added to the church grounds.

By Geremy Bordonaro

Many community members remain unhappy with the proposed redevelopment of the Bloor Street United Church, even after the third — and final — community consultation in late November.

[pullquote]“It’s a beautiful design but it’s just in the wrong place” —David Harrison, chair, Annex Residents’ Association[/pullquote]

The plan calls for a 38-storey mixed-use building that will occupy the west end of the church’s grounds and retain most of the heritage elements on the east.

Although the developers have not yet submitted their application to the city, they hope to do so sometime in the new year.

“What we’ve said is that in any consideration of this site certain core principles need to guide the thinking. One of those principles is heritage retention. Another is appropriate height,” said Joe Cressy (Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina).

“We have two studies, both endorsed by the city, which make it pretty clear the type of height which would be expected. And what the city’s plan would speak on is probably something closer to the teens.”

Cressy has dealt with a very similar proposal process like this. The developers have tried to engage the community from the outset, as Westbank Projects Corp. did for its redevelopment of Mirvish Village, but as with Westbank, there has been a lot of pushback.

“While what has been proposed is not something that is supportable at this time the process that they are taking, before they put in an application, to engage and work with the community is the right one,” Cressy said.

One major player is the Annex Residents’ Association (ARA), which opposes the plan in its current form.

“You can’t fault them on trying to embrace the community. They’ve tried, we’ve had several meetings, but they still haven’t reduced the size of what they have on offer,” said David Harrison, ARA chair. “It’s a beautiful design but it’s just in the wrong place.”

The church has given its land to the developers, Collecdev, Northrop Development Incorporated, and Strategy Corp., to pay for the building’s revitalization. Reverend Martha ter Kuile said that she wasn’t surprised by the negative reaction, but has urged the developers to work with community.

“Generally I’d say these meetings have gone very well but the major issue has been the height of the building,” said Marianne McKenna of KPMB Architects, which is designing the development. “I think everybody has initially embraced the idea that the church was important to retain. It’s a benefit to retain the church in its entirety. The stickler has been the height and the fear of the residents.”

Reverend Kuile said that the community’s opinion matters highly to the church and they’re trying to do everything in their power to accommodate local residents. But, it’s easier to get an agreement for a plan like this in the crowded, tower-filled streets of the downtown core, but the Annex is still grappling with the impact such developments could have on the future of the area.

“It sets a precedent in the city. And we try to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of people who will come to Toronto in the next decade. Maybe millions,” McKenna said. “We’re going to have to build. We’re going to have to build perhaps taller than people anticipate. And it should be on the main streets, like Bloor Street.”

McKenna says her concern is about “younger people who want to live in the city” and who would want to take up residence in a bustling area like the Annex. And though the pushback from the community has been vocal, she still hears from people who support the design.

“There were a lot of people at that community meeting who were quite positive. Who spoke up, not in the public forum, but afterwards said look, my tomato plants will be shadowed for half an hour. I get it. I’m in favour of this,” McKenna said “But they’re not the people who speak.”

Meanwhile, the ARA hopes to set up a group to continue the discussions between the architect, community, and developer before the plan finds its way into the application phase.

“They’ve sort of agreed, I wouldn’t say they have agreed, but they have heard the idea that they shouldn’t submit until they’ve met with a working group,” Harrison said. “But all developers at the moment are very focused on the fact the new rules from the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) will be done soon and they’ll all have to put in application appeals before that happens.”

There are still fears from an untrusting community that if talks turn sour the developers would turn to the OMB, which some residents believe hasn’t ruled in their favour in the past.

Yet Cressy is still hopeful about the process.

“What we need to see ultimately, though we’re still early in the process, is some shifts in the response to the proposal. Often the process that takes place is a developer comes in, throws in an application, and then you talk afterwards,” Cressy said. “I think the process here of talking first is important. What we need to see are some changes to what’s in there though.”

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NEWS: New vision for Bloor Street United (JULY 2017)

Cheri DiNovo leaves politics for ministry at Trinity-St. Paul’s

GEREMY BORDONARO/GLEANER NEWS After 11 years in provincial politics, Cheri DiNovo is returning to the Annex and her ministerial roots. She performed the first legalized same-sex marriage in North America when she was a minister at Emmanuel Howard Park United Church.

By Geremy Bordonaro

After serving 11 years in the provincial legislature, the Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo (Parkdale-High Park) is returning home to the Annex, where she will become the new minister for Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church, effective January 1.

“It was time. I don’t think I’ve ever had a job that I stayed at for more than ten years, including owning my own company,” said DiNovo. “The perfect church came up, which is Trinity-St. Paul’s. It’s the perfect mix for me of faith, justice, and the arts.”

[pullquote]“This is a community that is very, very excited about her coming” —James Holzbauer, member, Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church[/pullquote]

It took the church a long time to find the perfect candidate. Following a process called “listening to the spirit”, the church considered what they value, what they are passionate about, and who they are as a congregation.

“We’re a very inclusive, very progressive, affirming congregation in the downtown city of Toronto,” said church member James Holzbauer, who was also a member of the selection committee. “We have been well aware of Cheri’s ministerial work at Howard Park United prior to being elected to [the legislature]. And we were all very well aware of the types of initiatives that she has so successfully championed…all of them fit our value base just like a glove.”

DiNovo fought for LGBTQ2S rights during her time as MPP, and her final bill was to recognize November 20 as a Transgender Day of Remembrance.

“Here’s a church that has been affirming of queer people since the 1970s, even considerably before the United Church of Canada ordained openly gay and lesbian people in 1988,” DiNovo said. “When the church decided that, they lost a third of their members, that’s how contentious it was. You can imagine what kind of backbone it took for a church in Toronto to stand up for queer rights.”

“We have a lot of queer people in the congregation,” said Holzbauer. “A lot of us had read Cheri’s book on queering evangelism. We’re very impressed by that. She had put a stained glass window of a trans woman in Howard Park United years before anyone else had. She was way ahead of that curve.”

DiNovo is an expert in Queer Theology.

“Queer theology…presumes inclusion,” explained Dr. Natalie Wigg-Stevenson of Emmanuel College. “It’s about how we can imagine the Christian tradition from a queer perspective.”

So, when DiNovo’s name was brought up for selection, it was hard for the congregation not to get excited.

“When this whole situation started, I was in the Philippines. We received Cheri’s application and I’m surprised people here didn’t hear me shout with joy from 7,000 kilometres away,” Holzbauer said. “She is just really the perfect candidate for us.”

DiNovo grew up in the Annex on Bedford Road in a boarding house run by her family, “a far cry from the chi-chi Bedford Road of today,” she noted.

She was ordained in 1995, and soon became known as the Radical Reverend for her trailblazing ways.

She performed the first legalized same-sex marriage in North America at Emmanuel Howard Park United Church, before the law changed.

“At that point the church didn’t back me,” she said. “The government threatened to take away my licence.”

DiNovo is looking forward to taking up her new ministry in the new year and continuing the progressive tradition Trinity-St. Paul’s is known for.

The congregation is equally excited. “This is a community that is very, very excited about her coming. So stay tuned,” Holzbauer said. “We’re pretty darn good at what we do at the moment and I think we’re just going to be even better. I can’t wait and I know a lot of others can’t either.”

MATT JAMES/GLEANER NEWS FILE PHOTO

Kensington Market’s 28th annual winter solstice parade returns on December 21. Organized by Kensington-based Red Pepper Spectacle Arts and sponsored in part by the Kensington Market BIA and the Kensington Market Action Committee, the parade marks the returning of the light after the shortest day of the year, and features hand-made lanterns, theatrical scenarios, and a fiery finale at Alexandra Park. The parade starts at Oxford Street and August Avenue at 7 p.m., though lantern sales start at 4 p.m. Unlike the Santa Claus parade, this is a participatory event, so bring your own drum or pan, and wear a costume.

—Brian Burchell, Gleaner News

City Manager Peter Wallace tried again, in vain, to alert members of city council to the threat posed by hedging the city’s budget against the apparent unrelenting strength of Toronto’s real estate market. The city has enjoyed explosive growth in revenue from the land transfer tax over the last ten years, and projections for next year suggest that Toronto will get $808 million, four times what it got when the tax was first introduced.

Wallace is concerned that the city’s bureaucracy has grown too dependent on a revenue stream that is as unpredictable as real estate values, and at a preliminary budget presentation at city hall said “recurring expenses continue to be matched with potentially cyclical revenue sources, as in prior years”. To put this in perspective, the entire budget for the fire department, paramedics, the planning department, and municipal licensing and standards could be funded by this sum of money.

This kind of tax, explains Wallace, is “cyclical”. It rides the wave of home prices. If they fall precipitously, so does the city’s revenue stream But if the city has assumed “recurring” expenses then it is stuck with the fixed costs but will have no means to fund them.

—Brian Burchell, Gleaner News

The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee (PWIC) of city council has been asked to help reduce the number of “doorings” — when a car door is opened into the path of an oncoming cyclist — in Toronto. Although this falls under the provincial jurisdiction of the Highway Traffic Act, one advocate believes the city needs to act.

“These are completely preventable accidents,” says Chris Glover (Ward 2, Etobicoke Centre), who brought the motion forward. He’s a trustee with the Toronto District School Board Trustee and a member of the Toronto Board of Health. “We need both levels of government to take measures to reduce doorings and to keep cyclists safe.”

Bike advocacy group CycleTO reports that the number of doorings has increased from 132 in 2014 to 209 in 2016. Many of these accidents lead to serious injuries and have even led to deaths. In 2011, the provincial government downgraded doorings from “accidents” to “incidents” because they involve a stopped car.

At committee, Glover demonstrated how to prevent doorings with simple measures like the “Dutch Reach”, a method of opening a car taught in the Netherlands: drivers use their right hand to open their car door, forcing them to swivel in their seat and do a shoulder check for oncoming cyclists. Teaching the Dutch Reach in Ontario is one of the recommendations in the motion.

PWIC referred Glover’s recommendations to city staff for further advice.

—Brian Burchell, Gleaner News

A case for road tolls

By Tim Grant

Why is the idea of charging drivers for the use of roads something that provincial politicians steadfastly avoid?

Twenty years ago, the then Premier Mike Harris downloaded the costs of maintaining the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway to the City of Toronto. Since that time, Toronto has been the only city in Ontario that has to pay for provincial highways. To date, we have paid $1.5 billion for highways that others use for free.

[pullquote]To date, we have paid $1.5 billion for highways that others use for free.[/pullquote]

A year ago, Mayor John Tory asked Premier Kathleen Wynne for permission to charge tolls on those two highways. Although she had previously expressed a willingness to give such permission, this time around the premier said no. The NDP and Conservatives also said no. Worse, not one of the three major parties offered to take back the maintenance costs that Harris had downloaded onto Toronto. Instead, they betrayed Toronto in order to win votes in the 905 belt around the city.

For many years, drivers across the Greater Toronto Area have endured some of the worst traffic congestion in North America. Virtually every major transportation report in Ontario in the last five years has acknowledged that the only way to deal with Toronto’s severe traffic congestion and build the transit we need is to charge drivers something for using the roads. Quite apart from the views of transportation experts, there is also a question of fairness. When you and I get on the TTC, our fares help to cover 76 per cent of the cost of the transit system. But according to a 2008 study by Statistics Canada, drivers pay only 40 per cent of the cost of the roads.

Unfortunately, none of the main political parties have a strategy for reducing traffic congestion. Nor do they acknowledge what the experts already know: that in and of itself, providing better public transit has only a small impact on the roads.

By contrast, road tolls are a proven means of reducing traffic congestion. Experience elsewhere tells us that if all the revenue from road tolls goes to improving transit, 15 to 30 per cent of drivers will switch to transit. Those that would switch were only driving because they had no alternative. The remaining drivers — those that will pay the tolls — enjoy a significant benefit. They will spend less time stuck in traffic. And because of tolls, all of us will breathe cleaner air.

Tolls have come a long way over the years. No one installs toll booths anymore, and the cost of the tolls usually varies depending on the level of congestion. For example, if you are driving out the city during the morning rush hour, you might pay a dollar, while those driving into the city might pay $2.50 to $3.00. In off-peak hours, the charges would be minimal or waived altogether.

One objection to tolls is that they are unfair to those of the poor who have no choice but to drive. But those who take public transit also pay for their rides. And with reduced congestion, all drivers will get to work faster. Some, such as tradespeople, may actually earn more money because of tolls.

However critics who say that it is unfair to charge tolls until better transit is available have a good point. In 2003, on the very first day that the City of London’s congestion charge came into effect, there were 3,000 new buses on the road to meet the increased demand for transit. When the province of Ontario finally agrees to road tolls — and it is only a question of when — a similar investment will be needed here.

Isn’t it time for Ontario’s political parties to have an adult conversation about how we’re going to reduce traffic congestion and pay for transit?

Tim Grant is the Green Party of Ontario’s Transportation Critic, its candidate in University-Rosedale, and the former chair of the Harbord Village Residents’ Association.

BRIAN BURCHELL/GLEANER NEWS Deals fell to the floor as the Honest Ed’s demolition continued with the dismantling of masonry, lumber, and steel. Originally divided by a city-owned alley called Honest Ed’s Way, the store’s sections were constructed very differently. Pictured here is the west annex, which was built on the houses that once stood there and featured crooked floors, because the houses were not built to the same elevations.

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Westbank submits application (August 2015)

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In 1995, Quebec sought independence from Canada through a referendum, the second time since confederation. It failed by the narrowest of margins — 54,288 votes. The leader of the independence movement, the late Parti Québécois leader and premier Jacques Parizeau, upon learning the news of defeat gave a revealing and memorable speech in which he said “Battu par l’argent et le vote ethnique” (we were beat by money and the ethnic vote).

Parizeau was graceless in defeat and fanned the embers of resentment of non-Francophones in Quebec. The intolerance of the “other” evident then is a fire that still burns today over 20 years later. In October, the National Assembly adopted Bill 62, which requires a person who delivers or receives public services to have their face uncovered. This was widely seen as an attack on the fundamental rights of the minority of Muslim women who wear the face-covering niqabs or burkas. In December, the same National Assembly voted unanimously to ban businesses from greeting customers with “Bonjour-hi”, which is a common greeting in Montreal. The “hi” part is now forbidden.

How sad and petty.

It rings of the 2013 Quebec investigation dubbed “Pastagate”, a notorious incident covered worldwide, after an inspector found that a menu at a Montreal Italian restaurant violated Quebec’s language law as it used the word “pasta” and ordered it removed.

It’s too early to tell how the ban on “bonjour-hi” will be received, but one thing is clear. It does not exactly signal openness or tolerance, and is more likely to invite ridicule.

Bill 62, less than two months old, has already started to unravel. On December 1, Quebec Superior Court Justice Babak Barin ordered a temporary stay on the provision of the law that prohibits citizens from receiving or giving public services with their faces covered. Barin ruled that Quebec cannot force people to uncover their faces until the province establishes clear guidelines under which someone can apply for a religious accommodation. When it enacted the law, the Quebec government said it would give until next summer to draft those guidelines.

The National Council of Canadian Muslims and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association challenged the law on Charter grounds, but the judge did not wade into that debate. He found the act was half-baked: “It is not unreasonable to expect that a state religious neutrality law enacted by the government should apply in a well-thought-out and comprehensive manner, especially when the law in question has been in preparation for some time…. In the interim, noble as the ideology of state religious neutrality may be, the government must ensure that the law it is adopting for the public good is coherent and complete.”

Enacting incoherent legislation aimed to alienate religious minorities and telling citizens how they may and may not greet each other in the normal course of their lives removes the welcome mat from Quebec’s doorstep. It’s especially troubling given the province’s declining birth rates. That means Quebec, like other provinces, needs immigration to fuel a labour shortage and support an aging population increasingly dependent on health care.

Unlike other provinces, Quebec can’t seem to hold onto its new immigrants: a quarter of those who arrived in Quebec between 2004 and 2013 left for other provinces. Those that stay take much longer to integrate than immigrants to other provinces: consider the unemployment rate among immigrants in Quebec is 16.9 per cent, while in Ontario it is 5.5 per cent for the same group.

Quebec leads the country in progressive parental leave programs, subsidized day care, and affordable post-secondary education (all paid for by the rest of Canada through transfer payments), and despite this can’t seem to hold onto new immigrants. It’s the other mean-spirited policies that drive this demographic exodus.

Ensuring our communities are livable, sustainable, and equitable

By Joe Cressy

It wouldn’t surprise you that we’ve had a busy year together in Ward 20. We’ve made critical strides as we work to build our communities and a city that is more equitable and sustainable for all. We’ve worked hard on the dozens and dozens of development files that populate downtown, creating new green spaces, and building livable communities. And as we look back on another year, we have a lot to be proud of.

[pullquote]We know that building livable communities means planning for the future.[/pullquote]

We’ve worked hard together to build new green spaces — from our now funded project at Monsignor Fraser in Seaton Village, to a brand new park in Harbord Village, to expanding our green space in Kensington Market and further south in King-Spadina. We’ve continued to implement countless neighbourhood visions for improvements to our existing park spaces – Margaret Fairley and the Doctors’ Parkette in Harbord Village are finally complete, and we’re launching preliminary designs for Ryan Russell Parkette in the Annex in January. And, Phase 1 of the implementation of the Harbord Village Green Plan is well underway. Together, we’re building greener, more sustainable communities.

We’ve continued our push for the spaces and services our communities need to be truly livable. Our YMCA at 505 Richmond St. in King-Spadina is now under construction, we’re working on new opportunities in the Annex, and we secured a brand new 3,500 community space and new childcare facility as part of the Mirvish Village development.

As our communities grow, we must ensure they are livable — and we must ensure that we are building safe ways to move through and around our neighbourhoods. This year, we’ve made critical strides in building safe streets, through expanding our cycling network and putting permanent lanes on Bloor Street. The data was clear — the bikes lanes worked. We built it, and indeed they came. The bike lanes on Bloor Street were 40 years in the making, and wouldn’t have been possible without the work of so many. We’ll continue this work as we make changes as part of the permanent design, but after decades, bike lanes on Bloor are here to stay.

While we need a citywide focus on speeding up the city’s Vision Zero road safety plan, in our community we’ve focused on traffic safety throughout our neighbourhoods –— a new mid-block traffic signal at Dupont Street and Palmerston Avenue, speed humps installed on Major Street and Albany Avenue, with more to come on Howland Avenue, Robert Street, and more. Together, we’re making critical strides in building safer streets.

Our neighbourhoods will not truly be livable unless they are equitable, and supportive. We’re working hard to secure new affordable housing units, while continuing to improve Toronto Community Housing buildings and to revitalize communities across our ward. And, we’re fighting to save the lives of our friends and neighbours through work on Overdose Prevention across our city.

We know that building livable communities means planning for the future — and in Ward 20, that means working together to develop our vision and to see it implemented.

This year, we fought hard at the Ontario Municipal Board on 316 Bloor St. W. and 203 College St., and got a better result for our communities. The College Street Study has now been approved, and the Spadina Avenue Study continues. For three years, we worked together on the Mirvish Village development application — and, we got a result that includes a brand new park and enhanced greening throughout the site, increased heritage retention, reduction in overall height and density to conform with the Four Corners Study, overall 40 per cent two- and three-bedrooms, sixty units of affordable housing and a commitment to work towards 20 per cent and more. And, as with everything in Ward 20, none of this would have been possible without the tireless work of our Residents’ Associations, businesses, institutions, and so many more.

Our Ward 20 neighbourhoods are truly special — ones where we support each other, and they are made better by the work of so many in our neighbourhood. As we move closer to the final year of this term of office, I couldn’t be prouder of the work we continue to do together.

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