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.
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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- 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.
Stay tuned for upcoming surveys and public engagement events!
Phases
Construction Contact
To ensure that the park is celebrating Indigenous heritage as well as the Victorian architectural heritage of the area, PFR Staff will be exploring this and will be consulting further with several local indigenous community organizations in the coming weeks.
Once the preferred design is confirmed, the project will move into the detail design phase, where the design team will finalize the preferred design into action by working through the technical details and developing engineered plans and drawings to be used by the construction contractor.
Significant obstacles and changes were presented by the Ontario Provincial Government's Bill 60, Schedule 5, "municipality shall not reduce or permit a reduction in the number of lanes that are available for use by motor vehicles and make changes to the related regulation-making powers. Amendments are also made respecting the reimbursement of municipalities that provide support or information respecting the removal or reconfiguration of bicycle lanes required under the Act."
Due to these legislative changes, the City of Toronto's Transportation Services, as well as Parks and Recreation, will need to reconfigure ongoing designs and contracting agreements to fulfill provincial guidelines. As a result, roadwork and park revitalization have been delayed.
Upcoming and ongoing events
Past events
Event date: November 7th, 2023 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Central Neighbourhood House
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Event date: April 11th, 2023 from 10:23 AM to 10:23 AM.
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