LCBO under construction last year
Wide sidewalks of South Bayview
Dylan Reid notes “terrible planning”
Dylan Reid @dylan_reid of Spacing Magazine has posted a photo of the lamentable encroachment of an LCBO built last summer out onto the sidewalk on the east side of Coxwell Ave. south of O’Connor Drive. The way the building steals space for people just makes you wonder what on earth they were thinking at City Hall. It recalls the bitter battle to save the wide sidewalks of South Bayview Ave. at a time (1960s) that “planners” wanted them reduced to about three feet. Legend has it the broad walkways on our favorite high street survived because at that time Leaside was still a separate municipality.
