{"id":1153,"date":"2006-09-18T19:09:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T23:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2006-09-18T23:03:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T03:03:51","slug":"dgp-is-building-a-place-to-pee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/09\/18\/dgp-is-building-a-place-to-pee\/","title":{"rendered":"Dufferin Grove Park is building a place to pee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everyone seems to like Dufferin Grove Park, and it’s not hard to understand why. They’ve got outdoor bread ovens, a community garden, snack carts, wireless internet and a club house. They host Friday night suppers for the community and farmers markets and they aren’t afraid to fight the city when stuffy bureaucracy gets in the way of what the community wants. Last summer they built a “cob courtyard”<\/a>, a structure made of an old fashioned sand-clay-straw mixture known as “cob. The idea was to create a place where people can gather, play, wash-up, and cook.<\/p>\n

This summer they’ve started building a second cob structure: the city’s first composting toilet. Unfortunately, the City’s building codes initially stood in the way. Christian Cotroneo tells the story in yesterday’s Sunday Star<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The toilet and surrounding cob seemed to fall under existing safety codes, meaning kids would not be allowed to muck around in the clay and straw to help erect the structure. According to the building code, construction hats and safety boots would be mandatory — and the Modu-Loc fence would stay up throughout the project. But the whole point, argued Friends of Dufferin Grove, was never about the end, but the process — a community sculpting its own space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo of kids helping to build the cob courtyard from the Friends of Dufferin Grove Park website. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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