{"id":1161,"date":"2006-09-25T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2006-09-26T01:06:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T05:06:57","slug":"green-space-for-the-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/09\/25\/green-space-for-the-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Green space for the living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/cemetery_0058-BS.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Toronto and East York Community Council shot down a plan to build a 24,000-square-foot visitation center in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. This was good news for the Moore Park community, reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidetoronto.ca\/to\/annex\/\"><em>Annex Guardian<\/em><\/a>. Residents there strongly opposed the plan, which would have required an alteration of Belt Line Trail and the removal of 11 mature trees.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, the community&#8217;s opposition to the development seems to have less to do with ensuring deceased loved ones continue to have a pretty final resting place, and more to do with maintaining green space within their community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;ve heard is that it&#8217;s all about convenience&#8230;one-stop shopping,&#8221; resident Tim Costigan told the Annex Guardian. &#8220;This is about whether we should have a party room for dead (baby) boomers or green space for the living.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While cemeteries are technically private spaces, many people in the city treat them more like public parks, going for daily jogs and leisurely walks along their paths, picnicing under their large trees, or wandering amongst the graves to learn of our city&#8217;s past. Andrew Robb explores the public-private grey area cemeteries seem to fall under in the <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/issue07.htm\">latest issue<\/a> of <em>Spacing<\/em> (which will be launched this Thursday night at the Gladstone Hotel).<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidetoronto.ca\/to\/centre\/story\/3682573p-4257158c.html\">the full article from the  Annex Guardian here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/aidanfotos.com\">Bouke Salverda<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Toronto and East York Community Council shot down a plan to build a 24,000-square-foot visitation center in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. This was good news for the Moore Park community, reports the Annex Guardian. 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