FOURTH STREET "WINDOW" NOW MORE OPEN AND BEING WELL-USED

Friday, 5 September 2014

FOURTH STREET "WINDOW" NOW MORE OPEN AND BEING WELL-USED

Earlier this year, Fourth Street residents pruned and removed more obstructing shrubbery from the lake window on their street. This work will continue.

The mass of tall, invasive Japanese Knotweed was also cut down on the province's lakeside portion of the 51 Lake Shore Drive property.

All of this work has really opened up the view and is encouraging even more passers-by to linger at what will, hopefully, become Fourth Street Park in the future.

A park bench has now appeared in the "park" (donated by a resident?) and is being well-used as the photograph clearly shows.

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BACKGROUND

We are a community group of residents whose goal is to lobby the City of Toronto Parks department to take over the remaining publicly-owned lakefront road ends in South Etobicoke that are not yet official parks or parkettes and complete the vision of the former “Windows on the Lake” initiative which dovetail with waterfront access goals reflected in our City's current Official Plan. Fourth Street parkette was to have been the first project under that plan with a landscape design drawn up and ready to go. It was stalled and disappeared during the amalgamation of the City's former boroughs. But, since then, many road ends (unassumed road allowances) have been taken over by City Parks who improved them and now maintain them. But, five road ends, including Fourth Street, remain unclaimed and subject to illegal encroachment. Along the shore line in south Etobicoke, of the forty-eight roads that end at the lake, only five do not end at a waterfront park or parkette (Fourth Street, Eleventh street, Twenty-Fifth street, Thirty-Ninth street and Fortieth street). Less than 5% do not end in a waterfront park or parkette. This is unfair and needs to be corrected.