For Your Consideration: A Municipal Policy to Reclassify (and Tax) Backyards as “Private Parks”
<p>People who live in large cities tend to live in high-rises. Density, after all, necessitates building vertically, not horizontally, yet municipal policies seem to endlessly favour those who own a piece of soil and enjoy the privileges of life on the ground.</p>
<p>My strolls through Toronto during the COVID-19 lockdowns highlighted the stark privileges between those who live in single family dwellings vs. those in multi-unit residences: bouncy houses on people’s front yards for the neighborhood kids to play in while city workers wrapped playgrounds in “caution” tape.</p>
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