UrbanAffair
Senior Member
If true, we should be celebrating. That's the end of one of the last infamous lots in Toronto
My people!!!
Permitted?
It was simply there, as merely one huge parking lot among scores of 'em that dotted the downtown core for decades prior to this remarkable boom we're still going through. Take a look at any aerial photograph of Toronto from the 60s or 70s and you'll see tons of parking lots. One by one, they've succumbed to development pressure. But before that? Land was cheap and plentiful and there was no particular rush to develop all that acreage in one go.
This lot wasn't "permitted" - it's simply a dowdy legacy of an older, sleepier Toronto. The City had no hand in propagating its continued existence - there's nothing sinister or dark about it. And now it's going away!
...and what about the eternal parking lot at Church and Bloor?*
*Sorry for getting off-topic but I'd like to know what the story is over there.