There's been a public concern in recent months about yuppie gentrifiers of the east end and the wealthier homeowners of Riverdale and Leslieville "stealing" spots in community centre programs from lower-income local residents in Regent Park and St. Lawrence area.
Which to me sounds like a capacity-problem. So hopefully, there won't be a problem with too many community centres concentrated in the area.
The downtown is certainly under capacity in community recreation centres. As the population has soared in recent years there were new facilities in St. Jamestown; and replacement ones at Regent Park, but that's about it.
Medium term plans call for the facility at Canoe Landing, another facility in the west Harbourfront area for a pool, the new facility near the foot of Yonge, this one at Bayside, and at least one more.
Also contemplated are replacement facilities for Moss Park, University Settlement and Scadding Court.
The St. Lawrence facility will not close, unless a replacement is built (unlikely in the near term).
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The problem at Regent Park is that its one of the nicest aquatic facilities in the City, it has maybe 3 somewhat comparable pools, excluding the 2 Olympic Pools (with those, about 5 others).
I offer that the City has something like 50 other pools that are varying degrees of substandard or at the least, not particularly enticing.
The City knows it needs to replace many aging facilities in order to spread demand around.
But that will take time.........and a lot of it. (not to mention money)
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