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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc
Pretty sure that's allocated greenspace... which is needed, as Toronto has probably the lowest amount of downtown greenspace of any similar sized city in North America.
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I suppose it depends on how you draw downtown.
Queens Park and the U of T grounds are massive. Waterfront parkspace isn't lacking either. St. James grounds, Osgood Hall, Queen & Church, Ryerson grounds (Kerr Hall), College Park, etc.
Yes, it is scattered throughout and not in a large single chunk along the waterfront like Chicago has; conversely Chicago has zero greenspace inside the loop (a few granite hard-spaces though). Seward and Stanton Park in Chicago aren't any closer to the centre of downtown than Queens Park and U of T are to downtown Toronto.
I've spent a lot of time in the park/beach near the water treatment facility. Seems like a very long way to the loop by foot as a result of the funky street grid (cross lakeshore under a tunnel, go up stairs to upper level of Wacker, etc.)
If you count Yonge & Bloor as part of downtown Toronto (it's not uptown anymore), there is a huge chunk of Rosedale valley within a stones throw.
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