Anniversary Park Redesign

The City of Toronto has contracted Thinc Design, a Toronto-based landscape architecture firm to redesign and rename Anniversary Park in an effort to improve and update the vision of the park for neighbours, community members and visitors to enjoy.

How did Anniversary Park get it's name? Learn more about renaming the park

Currently, the Anniversary Park Slip Lane design facing west has no parking, narrow sidewalks, 9.2m wide vehicle roadways and has no dedicated cycling lanes or facilities. The proposed opportunities to redesign the park offers the Cabbagetown South neighborhood options to reduce vehicle speeds, create shared spaces, narrow roadways for shared travel options, and additional green infrastructures.

This park is currently in the process of being named!

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Anniversary Park Improvements Survey

Integration of Anniversary Park into Gerrard Complete Street and Cabbagetown Cycling Network
Unit paving to be carried through streetscape and park
Anniversary Park design to incorporate and meet new Western crossing
Anniversary Park design to continue to meet with Eastern sidewalk
Anniversary Park to mirror planting buffer on the South side of Gerrard
Bench and Bollard location on north side

This is the information city staff recorded during community engagement workshops.

Click here to view workshop summaries

Stay tuned for upcoming surveys and public engagement events!

96c0-anniversary-park-improvements-survey-summary-july-2023.pdf

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97eb-Survey-Summary-Visioning-Anniversary-Park-AODA.pdf

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Anniversary Park - CSW #3 - 20230611 - Presentation.pdf

(13.0 MB)

Phases

Phases overview

Phase 1: Background and Field Analysis

Background and Field Analysis

Phase 2: Community Engagement

Community Engagement

Phase 3: Detailed Design Development

Detailed Design Development

Phase 4: Construction Contact

Construction Contact

Phase 5: Gerrard Street East Reconstruction

Gerrard Street East Reconstruction

Phase 6: Construction of Anniversary Park

Construction of Anniversary Park

Detailed Design Development

April 1, 2024 4:00 AM - April 1, 2025 4:00 AM

During this phase of the community engagement process, the City will share the preferred design option to the community. Once the preferred design is confirmed, the project will move into the detail design phase, where the design team will finalize the preferred design by working through the technical details and developing detailed plans and drawings to be used by the construction contractor.

Community Engagement Activities anticipated in this phase will be shared at a later date.

The anticipated phase outcome is the refined preferred design.

1 issue

David Robertson3 years ago Thank you for seeking comments on the design. Foremost, the current park is a blight on the community because it is an island of illegal and disorderly behaviour, isolated from surrounding sidewalks. It's unusable by kids and most adults. I therefore appreciate the fact that both proposed designs aim to integrate it with the north side of Gerrard Street by narrowing the 'slipway'. Making the 'slipway' as narrow as possible and as inconvenient to use would help pedestrians to use the park. Could speedbumps, bollards, and maximal bends be used, along with signs that it is only for garbage vehicles and vehicles servicing businesses and homes off the slipway?I am concerned about the sheer fibreglass wall facing the main part of Gerrard. It looks ugly and uninviting, although I'm sure it's in the design to shield park-users from traffic noise. But it would look a ton better if it were made of brick, covered with shrubbery--or a berm covered with shrubbery.I also think the vertical 'gateposts' on the north end of the park divide the park from the northern east-west sidewalk. Instead, the design should do everything to knit together the sidewalk and the park, across the 'slipway'. Finally, I think the sidewalk should have provision for the businesses that might occupy the ground floor of the houses on the north side of Gerrard to have sidewalk tables. This could be a great place for people to sit out and eat or drink, a real centrepiece of the neighbourhood. But it needs to feel expansive, with continuity from park to sidewalk, for this to work.thanks,David. 416 717 4470

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Anniversary Park Community Stakeholder Meeting
Event date: November 7th, 2023 at 10:00 PM to November 8th, 2023 at 12:00 AM.
Central Neighbourhood House
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Anniversary Park Improvements Survey
Event date: April 11th, 2023 from 2:23 PM to 2:23 PM.
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Anniversary Park Redesign

Preferred design would include:

Leave your mark, Name your park!

Integration of Gerrard East Complete Design

Consideration of Cabbagetown BIA

Stay tuned for upcoming surveys and public engagement events!

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Detailed Design Development

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Integration of park with north side of street

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Preferred design would include:

Leave your mark, Name your park!

Integration of Gerrard East Complete Design

Consideration of Cabbagetown BIA

Stay tuned for upcoming surveys and public engagement events!

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Detailed Design Development

1 issue

Integration of park with north side of street

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