What's positive about losing only part of a park? Green space lost is lost forever (except in Detroit). Even worse, though, is that this condo project will rob Gibson House of all historical context...might as well pack it up and ship it off to that Heritage Lane in Markham.
It may be privately owned but it *is* still a de facto public park...that much is obvious. Not only does the city maintain it and treat like any other park, the Menkes site is proposed to have more "park space" than would otherwise be required for a similar development to offset the loss of park space that will occur when the rose garden is destroyed.
I also love how the OMB notes that 4 stakeholders expressed opposition to the project in community...I wouldn't be surprised if these 4 were also the only members of the public present at the meetings.