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Newsletter Fall 2012 Page 2 of 14 Concerns in the Village Page of 14 Fall 2012 HVRA Newsletter Fall 2012 Volume 10, Number 2 Harbord Village Residents’ Association Contents: Chair’s message ..... 1 Annual General Meeting for 2012 . 1 Message from the Concerns in the chair of HVRA’s Village ................. 2 board Pumpkin Festival 2012 ................. 2-3 What I have always loved and bar patrons have kept end. We mostly shrug and Fall Fair 2012 ....... 4,5,9 about this neighbourhood many of us up from time to accept such disruptions as a is the mix of tenants, cost of living in a dense urban Murals replacing homeowners, students, graffiti ................. 6 community that has many English and non-English upsides. The Nags Players ... 7 speakers, the well-to-do In the last few years, things Fall Clean-Up .......... 7 and the poor, all existing have changed, however. U of side by side. How the UoT affects T’s large downtown expansion life in Harbord The nearby University of To- has led to an influx of stu- Village ............ 8-10 ronto campus has had a major dents, which in turn has trig- Jennifer Keesmaat .... influence on this mix. Lots of gered several unwelcome Chief Planner .... 10 students, professors and cam- changes to our neighbour- pus workers live here. And hood. These, and HVRA’s re- University develop- restaurants, bars and other ment .................. 11 sponses, are described in sev- businesses have sprung up to eral articles in this newsletter. EAB: the ash tree serve them, and us. time. We deal with it, much as killer .............. 12-13 But like all mixes, there have we do with noisy renovation Tim Grant, HVRA chair Lovin’ our been challenges. Noisy parties projects that seem never to laneways ........... 13 Board and mem- bership stuff....... 14 HVRA’s 2012 Annual General Meeting Wednesday October 17, 6:30 for 7:00 p.m. This newsletter is produced Kensington Gardens, 25 Brunswick Ave. (south building) twice a year by the Harbord Village Residents’ Associa- 6:30 – 7:00 Meet, greet, catch up on your membership dues tion (HVRA) serving the part 7:00 – 7:30 Area caucuses (for each of the five areas of Harbord Village) of Toronto bounded by 7:30 – 8:00 Activity reports on graffiti removal, heritage preservation, Bathurst St, Bloor St W, Spadina Ave, and College St. neighbourhood history, spring clean-up, yard sale, and more See the last page for infor- 8:00 – 8:30 Jennifer Keesmaat, Toronto’s new Chief Planner (see Page 10) mation about HVRA or visit 8:30 – 9:00 Q&A with Councillor Adam Vaughan www.harbordvillage.com. HVRA Newsletter Fall 2012 Page 2 of 14 Concerns in the Village A new type of rooming dents, both north and south of Vaughan, along with repre- house College are routinely awak- sentatives of Toronto Police, ened on weekends between AGCO and the City of Toron- While rooming houses have midnight and 5 a.m. Too of- to’s Municipal Licensing and always provided affordable “Many of these new ten, they – along with the Standards (MLS) department. housing for students and oth- owners of other businesses on When it became clear to all rooming homes do not er Harbord Villagers, a new College – have to sweep up that none of these representa- include fire escapes or breed of investor has been broken bottles and vomit the tives offered workable solu- buying and converting area sprinkler systems, thus next morning. tions, we formed a putting tenants at homes into crowded and often It gets worse. The city’s noise “disruption” committee. risk.” illegal rooming houses. Typi- cally, living rooms and other bylaw officers don’t work after Since May, we’ve done a lot of common spaces become addi- 11 p.m., so those who dial research. We discovered that tional bedrooms, “311” are encouraged to call MLS has very good noise by- thus leaving tenants the police. Most weekend laws (which include hefty on- The photos below are from HVRA’s 2011 with no indoor plac- nights, the police do not come the-spot fines), which they do Pumpkin Festival. See Page 3. es to socialize. Many because they are dealing with not enforce. As a result, we of these new room- more urgent matters. Some- met with the new head of ing homes do not times they arrive the next day MLS, who promised to bring include fire escapes to file a report, but this offers forward a system of enforce- or sprinkler systems, little help and certainly no ment later this fall. thus putting tenants deterrence to repeat offend- We also picked up on a com- at risk. ers. When drunken bar pa- trons wake nearby residents, ment by Adam Vaughan that provincial legislation was A proliferation and the latter opt to file a needed to strengthen AGCO’s of student bars complaint with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of ability to suspend and cancel For years, residents Ontario (AGCO), their calls go liquor licences of repeat of- living near the fender bars which repeatedly to a 24-hour answering ma- Brunswick Tavern chine. Those calls elicit re- over-served alcohol. To this and the pubs close sponses the next day that say end, I’ve asked Rosario Mar- to it have com- chese, our Member of the there is nothing AGCO can do plained about late unless the complainant knows Provincial Parliament, to spon- night disturbances the name of the bar from sor a private member’s bill to caused by drunken reform AGCO. He and his staff which noisy patrons came. patrons. Now an have been very supportive influx of new bars, As long as HVRA has been in and have hosted three meet- along with some existence, we’ve received oc- ings to date with HVRA and converted restau- casional complaints from resi- nearby residents’ associations. rants on College, dents about disruptive bars We are not out of the woods between Lippincott and noisy parties in student and Bathurst, sells rooming houses. But when the yet, and if there is light, it is at the end of a very long tun- beer and alcohol at volume of complaints in- nel. But persist we will. cheap prices to large creased steadily over the last numbers of students. three years, we decided Tim Grant, Chair, HVRA Nine bars in that one enough was enough. block stay open until One hundred of you attended 4 a.m. Some adver- HVRA’s largest-ever public tise “4 drinks for meeting last spring, which $12,” and none su- focused on these two prob- pervises departing lems. Addressing the meeting patrons. Nearby resi- were our councillor, Adam Page 3 of 14 Fall 2012 HVRA Newsletter st Pumpkin Festival: Thursday, November 1 Get ready for another evening not have a silent auction or of magic. From 5:30 – 8:30 indoor art display. p.m. on November 1st, the To accomplish all this, we’ll 6th annual Harbord Street need volunteers to take pho- Pumpkin Festival will find hun- tographs and help with logis- dreds of candlelit pumpkins, tics. If you can help in any some elaborately carved, fes- way either before or during tooning tables along the side- the event, please contact me walks between Spadina and at 416.960.1244 or Lippincott. [email protected]. Once again, the Harbord Busi- Meanwhile, please add the ness Improvement Area following to your to-do lists: (HBIA) is co-sponsoring the buy one or more pumpkins event, and local restaurants before Halloween, invite all are being encouraged to offer your buddies to the festival, pumpkin on their menus. As carve those pumpkins and before, the HBIA will be rent- display them on Halloween ing display tables, printing (i.e. Wednesday night), and posters and arranging for the then leave them outside again city to compost all the pump- by noon on the Thursday to kins after the festival. be picked up and brought to This year, HVRA will comman- Harbord Street that afternoon. deer some parking spaces Tim Grant, Chair, HVRA along Harbord to set up tents from which hot cider and cup- cakes will be served. We will The photos on this page and Page 2 are from HVRA’s 2011 Pumpkin Festival. Clockwise from top right, they were taken by Richard Gilbert, Robert Bell, Graham Rempe, and Wendy Smith (remaining four photos). HVRA Newsletter Fall 2012 Page 4 of 14 The 2012 Fall Fair As someone who has been Sussex-Ulster Residents’ Asso- has ever been cancelled – involved in this community ciation, and the event was Hurricane Hugo’s aftermath event since the beginning, I called “Downtown Country.” It did that one in. But this one – am going to attempt a feat of became The Fall Fair when held on Sunday September 9 memory and try to recall HVRA came into being. – was especially good: when the first one took place. It is for sure the biggest un- - People stayed longer than I will say 1992 was the first, dertaking of either organiza- usual – the park was still pret- so this one was our 21st Fall tion – in terms of the cash ty full right to the end of the Fair. The first ones were spon- outlay, the number of folks Caribbean Band [were they sored by our predecessor, involved in mounting the vari- not spectacular!]. ous parts of the event, and - When people linger, they Here’s what Eleanor Levine says about the photos on Pages 4 the cash return to the spon- spend more – we sold out of and 5: “I was ‘manning’ the HVRA table, signing up new mem- soring organization[s].
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