Councillors vote to make rules allowing drinking in a few dozen parks permanent, and extend the program to at least one park in each of the city’s 25 wards
Toronto is expanding legal drinking to parks citywide, over the objections of a minority of councillors who wanted to keep public green spaces in their wards dry, after a pandemic-spurred pilot project that led to few problems.
But expansion of the program came after concerns from five members of council, who raised worries such as drunk driving, rowdiness and unhappy residents. These councillors tried to exempt all parks in their own wards from legal alcohol consumption. In a series of votes, they were narrowly overruled by the majority on council.
Toronto has approximately 1,500 parks but only 144 were deemed eligible by city staff based on criteria including their size, having public toilets and not being on the waterfront. It remains to be seen which of these parks will be added to the legal consumption list. Those choices are to be made by staff by early July, in consultation with the local councillor.
though, a number of municipalities were confronted with the resulting inequity: During restaurant and bar shutdowns, homeowners could relax in their yard with a drink while those living in apartments could not.
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