Current Issues and Debates
One of the current issues and debates is whether to open up the fence between Grange Park and the adjoining Butterfield Park (the park under the OCAD "floating building") into one large contiguous park. This would improve access to Grange Park by OCAD students, but would also increase traffic through the children's playground area.
As a result of this issue, the desire to have a basketball court in or adjacent to Grange Park, Grange residents conducted a series of discussions with officials of the Art Gallery of Ontario and Councilor Adam Vaughan. These discussions resulted in a proposal to establish the Grange Park Advisory Committee (GPAC), a proposal which was discussed at a bi-lingual community meeting held on May 21, 2008. The proposal was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Art Gallery of Ontario. GPAC's co-chairs are Councilor Adam Vaughan and Rupert Duchesne a trustee of the AGO.
The goal of GPAC is to create a great city and neighbourhood park, and it will advise on a capital project aimed at the restoration and revitalization of Grange Park and to advise on an oversight structure for the on-going maintenance and program for Grange Park. The current focus of GPAC in October 2008 is to undertake an examination of the ecological health of the park.
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