[getsmart-l] Part of the reason that . . .

[John O'Gorman]

social services, recreation and education infrastructure (you may think of other aspects also, such as grocery stores to avoid "food deserts) should/would be able to be required by urban planners on our behalf! But how to do it wisely and effectively without the bureaucratic ineptitude!!?? Especially the intrusion of the OMB!!

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080223.YMCA23/TPStory/?query=YMCA
YMCA EAST: PULLING UP STAKES (excerpts)

Why oh why are they closing the East City Y?
Parents are waging a feisty battle to keep a vital local nursery school open on Kingston Road
SIMONA CHIOSE Globe and Mail February 23, 2008 

-  This is a rather more paradoxical tale now unfolding on a steadily changing strip of Kingston Road in the Upper Beaches where an increasingly desirable neighbourhood - ka-ching! said the local real-estate agents when a Starbucks opened before Christmas - is about to see some of its very desirable community services traded off for more remunerative land uses. 

- "One of the nicest things was that it was all within walking distance. This is a walking community," she says. "I have a friend in Etobicoke and she drives the kids everywhere. I don't want to do that."
The fact that so much is within walking distance is, of course, what makes the squat, one-storey building an attractive redevelopment site. 
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