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McGregor Park Trees help tower renewal project slated to host graffiti summit MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com Scarborough Councillor Michael Thompson says he is looking for tips at a forum this Saturday on how to stop graffiti tagging he calls a “blight on our community.” A local ratepayer group has one: Give the taggers some real art to do. The Midland Park Community Association was “reborn” around the issue, the group’s vice president Mark Weiser said last week. “We had a ton of graffiti and the neighbourhood wasn’t happy about it.” Weiser said association members in the mid-Scarborough neighbourhood identified and met one of the prolific taggers, who convinced another to come forward. To the residents’ surprise, Weiser said, the taggers were “honest and caring young men” who saw spraying graffiti tags as something that would keep them away from real trouble. Thompson said he supports the City of Toronto providing “more opportunities for kids to express themselves” and wants area youth to know about them, but the Scarborough Centre councillor sees tags as a serious problem, a message people “aren’t interested in taking care of their community.” A c r o s s To r o n t o t h e c i t y approaches graffiti art, which it says >>>TAGGING, page 3
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WORKING TOGETHER: Volunteers helped plant trees at East Scarborough Storefront on Lawrence Avenue near Galloway Road recently as part of the Tower Renewal Project, which aims to beautify and make better use of the land around highrise towers. More photos on page 16.
Building height limit of four storeys sought for Highland Creek Councillor Ron Moeser publicly undercut a planning study he once championed this week in a bid to satisfy local residents who don’t
want Highland Creek Village to lose its current character. The Scarborough East councillor initiated the study two years
ago because the small commercial area centred on Old Kingston and Moorish roads was facing five development applications and needed
a framework to control future growth. It needed growth, planners and some residents said, because the
24-acre mixed-use village area has vacant lots, struggling businesses with no residents on village streets >>>VILLAGE, page 9
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