ALEX BOZIKOVIC | ARCHITECTURE CRITIC | PUB: JUNE 23, 2020 |
Armour Gardens is a neighbourhood where you’re allowed to live, but you’re not allowed to die.
That is the lesson that certain members of the community are sending this week. They are gearing up to prevent a new hospice from being constructed in their 1960s pocket of suburban Toronto.
The Neshama Hospice, a charity, is looking to build a facility on Brightwood St., near Bathurst St. and Hwy. 401. It would be a 12-bed hospice that provides end-of-life care: something the city, with a rapidly aging population, needs now. It would replace two houses and a long-vacant lot; its brick building would be lined by gardens, ironwood trees and sugar maples.
On Tuesday the proposal goes to a meeting of the North York committee of adjustment, a local planning review panel, for approval.