Call it a full-court press. When the Bourret brothers heard their front-yard basketball net might get pulled because of a city bylaw, they rallied their Upper Beach street to defend it. Jackson, 16, and Mitchel, 11, only had a few days to get a petition to City Hall. They beat the clock, thanks to 59 […]
Tag: bylaw
Front yard net no slam dunk
A bylaw against curb-side basketball nets has one Upper Beach family feeling hooped. On May 28, Celia Johnstone came home to find a bylaw violation notice hanging on the free-standing basketball net that her sons set up on the edge of their front lawn along Glen Davis Crescent. “It’s a joke really, because all my […]
Letters to the Editor for August 26
Beach canine situation is going to the dogs It’s good that more off-leash bylaw enforcement will occur in parks. Now, how about everywhere else? Almost daily, I see rambunctious dogs off their leashes, running roughshod over people’s property. Invariably the owner is nearby, carrying the leash, so these dogs do not just get loose on […]
Leash law to see boost in enforcement
Dog owners who let Rover off-leash outside the 63 off-leash areas in Toronto parks this summer may get a reminder of up to $360. Bylaw officers and local police are teaming up to better enforce leash rules after a spike in complaints. In the last six months, city staff have received over 400 complaints about […]
Councillors vote to fight condos at OMB
Wide sidewalks, a three-storey look and open views of the Kew Beach fire hall – that’s how city councillors hope a revised zoning bylaw will shape any future development along Queen Street East from Coxwell Avenue to Nursewood Road. But a legal test of the new rules is already underway. Two developers who are separately […]
