A long-time local defends the Marysfield Drive housing community that her parents helped build decades ago after the Second World War
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“If people want to live in close quarters, they can go almost anywhere else in Brampton for that,” she says. “Why come here and change everything?”While the lots now “definitely cost over $1-million,” the new houses “shouldn’t be so big that they cover up the whole lot,” she adds. A daughter of one of two original families left in Marysfield, Ms. Richardson, 58, and her husband live in a small extension to the house her parents built, where her daughter and grandchild now live.
Among them was a bricklayer, bookkeeper, electrician and a store manager, according to a Brampton Heritage newsletter from 2016. After studying manuals on co-operative housing, they built the neighbourhood at night and on weekends. When the 1,300-square-foot houses were completed a year later, the families drew straws to determine which house each would move into. The street they lived on was designed in the shape of a rosary, to signify their faith.
Over time, though, the homes were eventually sold to new landowners, some of whom sought to subdivide the large lots for development. After the city received a handful of severance applications, it passed It also suggests the city consider Marysfield a “Cultural Heritage Landscape,” which the Ontario Heritage Trust defines as a location that has “heritage significance” and is “valued by a community.”
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