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The Toronto Parking Authority is having a board meeting on Tuesday, October 16 at 4 PM in Meeting Room B. Please attend and show your support for the Matador, and for our city.
Contact the folks below and give them hell!
Joe Casali, Director, Real Estate Services Tel.: 416-392-7202; jcasali@toronto.ca
Lorne Persiko, Development & Marketing, Vice President, Toronto Parking Authority Tel.: 416-393-7294, lpersiko@toronto.ca
Gwyn Thomas, President, Toronto Parking Authority Tel.: 416-393-7276; gwthomas@toronto.ca
Adam Giambrone, City Councillor in Ward 18 Tel.: 416-392-7012; councillor_giambrone@toronto.ca
David Miller, Mayor of Toronto Tel.: 416-397-2489; mayor_miller@toronto.ca
Let us know what you are doing and how we can help each other. matador@savethematador.com
Dear friends,
We have all read about the City's plan to expropriate the famed Matador club and turn into a parking lot.
I don't want to talk about the failings of Toronto's planning department, nor do I wish to talk about how this City Council has failed to seize opportunities to improve our city . I don't want to even talk about the Matador. I want to talk about Ann Dunn, the owner of the Matador, and how this city has singled her out and bullied her in order to steal her life's work. All in our name, and all for the sake of a parking lot.
I want to talk bout how Ann had to find out that the City was planning to expropriate her business and home, not from any official notification, but from a reporter who called her.
I want to talk about how the city ignores it's own official plan to reduce parking and how senior city officials extol parking lots as future development sites and make deals with condo developers.
I want to talk about how a grandmother is fighting this injustice alone.
The local councillor tells us that the Parking Authority is an independent agency and that he is not a bully. The rest of council say that they are not to blame and nor are they bullies. The Mayor also tells us that he is looking into it and that he is not a bully. Yet they voted unanimously to allow the Parking Authority to steal Ann's life. When you support a bully you become a bully.
Ann is standing alone against all these bullies but I ask you to stand with her and stand up to the City and say enough is enough. That this is wrong and we will not allow you to bully us any longer.
This Tuesday at 4pm, please join me at City Hall and make your voice heard to help Ann and our City.
Sincerely,
Simon Wookey