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This afternoon:
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interchange42 said:
Looking out from major appliances, past a hoist mast.

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I don't know why the lawns at Old City Hall are even there. They're constantly a muddy/patchy dirt mess. It would be nice to surround the building with granite paving. At the very least, all surface area on its perimeter should be hard surface. The grass islands are a useless waste of space and they are ugly.
 
It's particularly terrible that they have not at least bricked the "desire line" paths, and shows just how terribly cheap we are as a city, to let our greatest buildings be surrounded with such a shabby landscape.

But then we're about to get a potentially awful recladding of a building that faces our most important public square.

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Is Old City Hall owned by the province or federal government? Is there no money to address the landscaping? It's only a national historic site after all. At least put fences around the grass to keep people from walking on it; thus giving it a chance to thrive.
 
This is "Please Walk On The Grass" Toronto. And again, as per the thread, the urban crime is presentlly (literally and figuratively) being overshadowed...
 
Armour said:
Is Old City Hall owned by the province or federal government? Is there no money to address the landscaping? It's only a national historic site after all. At least put fences around the grass to keep people from walking on it; thus giving it a chance to thrive.
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Old City Hall is owned by the City, but leased to the Province for a courthouse.

But, yes, regardless of ownership or leases, this is a disgrace.
 
interchange42 said:
It's particularly terrible that they have not at least bricked the "desire line" paths, and shows just how terribly cheap we are as a city, to let our greatest buildings be surrounded with such a shabby landscape.

But then we're about to get a potentially awful recladding of a building that faces our most important public square.

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It always strikes me as a waste of space. It would be much nicer with some maple leaf paving or something like that. There aren't even trees in those photos, so what's the point? They should remove them and add a continuation of the steps. The green space looks especially bad in cold months, and shocker: we have a lot of those.
 
Who would be the a good person to contact to suggest improvements (the local councillor or someone else)?
 
Wait - so they're not even replacing the precast with something higher-performing? They're just tacking a ton of aluminum crap over top of it?
 
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