Is Your Park Next?
Posted June 29, 2009 12:00 pm.
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Coming soon to a Toronto park near you — piles of rotting waste, heat-simmering stench, and wily ravenous rodents.
That’s right, frolicking in some of the Big Smoke’s most popular parks this summer could soon become an intolerable experience. With the city’s 19 temporary garbage sites rapidly filling up, it appears that new locations are being eyed, and several are popular leisure locations.
Residents in the Christie Pits area are already fuming after watching their park become inundated with waste after just a few days.
And now heavily populated green spaces like Trinity Bellwoods and Dufferin Grove could soon become temporary dump sites.
A leaked City of Toronto document reveals a slew of new potential “secondary” sites that could join the stink parade if the strike continues to drag on.
They are:
Budapest Park – Parking area south of Lakeshore, second lot east of the westerly lot
Campbell Playground – Southeast corner of Antler St. & Campbell St.
Cummer Arena – 6000 Leslie St. , Parking Lot
Dufferin Grove Park – West of Havelock Avenue, baseball diamond & soccer field
E. T. Seaton – Parking Lot
Earl Bales Park – 4169 Bathurst St. , Parking Lot (additional parking area)
East York Community Centre – 1081 Pape Avenue
Greenwood Park – Internal paved road north from Dundas Street East , West of Green Avenue, east of Aldon Avenue
Greenwood Park – Two baseball diamonds
Greenwood Park – Soccer field
Rennie Park – Paved parking lot, East of Windermere Avenue, north off Rennie Terrace
Trinity-Bellwoods – Paved pathways in park, south of Dundas St. W.
Woodbine Beach Park – Parking lot, south of Lakeshore Boulevard , between Coxwell and Woodbine Avenues (at Boardwalk Café)
