{"id":2389,"date":"2007-10-16T21:12:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T01:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:44:08","slug":"bullish-tpa-backs-down-on-matador-after-citizens-wave-the-red-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/10\/16\/bullish-tpa-backs-down-on-matador-after-citizens-wave-the-red-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullish TPA backs down on Matador after citizens wave the red cape"},"content":{"rendered":"

We received a call from Adam Giambrone’s office tonight letting us know that the Toronto Parking Authority reversed their plans to buy the Matador building as they no longer had the support of the local councillor (Giambrone). The issue still must go back to full council to be officially reversed, but unless some strange shift in Space and Time occurs (like the one that caused this aberration of common sense in the first place), the city will not be tearing down the building for a parking lot. John Barber predicted as much in his Globe column<\/a> today:<\/p>\n

Councillor Kyle Rae, who sits on the parking authority board and opposed the Matador expropriation there – though not when the issue came to council – hopes to kill the proceedings behind closed doors this morning. He also hopes, perhaps vainly, to hold demonstrators at bay until the deed is done.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I think the board needs to rethink,” he said. “I don’t think we need to be yelled at to do that.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Even the local Business Improvement Area, which first prompted Mr. Giambrone into action, has backed away from the idea, according to Mr. Rae. Why it got as far as it did, he added, is a mystery. “We don’t go to this form of land acquisition without impetus,” he said. But it’s clearly going no further with the ward councillor now opposed. “It clearly seems unacceptable to have a parking lot,” Mr. Giambrone said. “We’ve expressed that we’re not supportive of tearing [it] down.” <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The late-night set may still be sad as it’s unlikely the Matador will continue in its present form as an after-hours venue. The owners want to sell and the neighbourhood is far too gentrified for a similar new business to sneak its way into the Toronto scene at this location. Change like this in a city is inevitable. What we can best hope for is that an inventive and creative buyer will come along and find some kind of adaptive reuse for this unique dance hall. However, it is a victory from a civic perspective as our City is no longer going to replace a piece of the urban fabric with a parking lot as so many other self-immolating cities have done in the past and present.<\/p>\n

File this saga under “You can fight City Hall.” As mentioned at the end of our first post<\/a> on this issue, sometimes our honourable councillors — many of whom ran and continue to run on the unofficial Jane Jacobs platform — just need a little political encouragement to make the right decision.<\/p>\n

Photo by Jason Michael<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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