Yorkville residents win their fight against a “neighbourhood destroying” heritage coach house
A group of what the Star describes as “two dozen” Yorkville residents has succeeded at preventing a businessman named Robert Hiscox from moving a heritage coach house into their neighbourhood. The 1889 structure currently stands on Isabella Street, and is scheduled to be demolished in the fall to make way for a new Casey House Foundation HIV/AIDS treatment facility. It had been offered for free to anyone willing to move it away. On Wednesday, the cadre of Yorkvillians, concerned that allowing Hiscox to install the coach house behind a house he already owns in the area would disrupt the character of the street, successfully lobbied the city’s committee of adjustment to deny him the necessary permissions. In stopping the scheme, the committee has spared from demolition the site’s current occupant: a three-car garage.
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A group of what the Star describes as "two dozen" Yorkville residents has succeeded at preventing a businessman named Robert Hiscox from moving a heritage coach house into their neighbourhood. The 1889 structure currently stands on Isabella Street, and is scheduled to be demolished in the fall to make way for a new Casey House Foundation HIV/AIDS treatment facility. It had been offered for free to anyone willing to move it away. On Wednesday, the cadre of Yorkvillians, concerned that allowing Hiscox to install the coach house behind a house he already owns in the area would disrupt the character of the street, successfully lobbied the city's committee of adjustment to deny him the necessary permissions. In stopping the scheme, the committee has spared from demolition the site's current occupant: a three-car garage.){kind=link}
Ironic. Many of the what are now called “garages” in historic Yorkville and Rosedale were called “coach houses” when they were built.
Ha. Molson Street isn’t Yorkville. It’s Summerhill. And a crappy part, at that.
Neither, bucko. I grew up in that in-between neighbourhood and it don’t got no name.
I would tend to agree with you, but it does fall within the boundary of Summerhill at least according to Google Maps. Point it, it’s not Yorkville, not sure why it needs to be labeled as such to drive page views.
Oh, thank God. A man was practically stabbed to death near Lansdowne and Bloor earlier this week, and one neighbourhood in North York had to endure police raids this week when a dangerous armoured car robbery gang holed up in their part of the city. But that’s nothing compared to the urban blight that the denizens of Yorkville would have faced had their neighbourhood been destroyed by a Victorian coach house. How awful for them, and how relieved they must be.