A plan to demolish a historic nightclub to make way for a 20-space parking lot in Toronto is "lunacy", writes Christopher Hume.
"Toronto wants to buy the legendary Matador Club and tear it down to make way for a parking lot. A parking lot! A parking lot!"
"This is in the city that likes to pass itself off as the greenest on the continent. As if."
"To add insult to injury – or should that be lunacy to idiocy – we also heard that if the owners of the 43-year-old club aren't prepared to sell their land to the city for $800,000, it will consider expropriation."
"Truly, Toronto has lost its way. Truly, whatever our aspirations may be as a civic entity, they are fast being undone by a bureaucracy so out of touch with reality it's frightening. And where are the councillors in all this? Does their silence signal agreement? Creeping suburbanization is one thing, but this is neanderthal."
FULL STORY: 43 years of history vs. 20 parking spots
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