Art vs. Neighborhood In Toronto

“Opponents of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s plans for a $195 million expansion designed by Frank Gehry are taking their fight to the Ontario Municipal Board. Five or six appeals have been filed, all asking the OMB to overturn the decision of Toronto City Council to approve the gallery’s so-called transformation… [T]he dissidents claim the Gehry project would ruin Grange Park and destroy their neighbourhood.” At issue is a 15-year-old pledge by the AGO that it would never again expand on the Grange Park site, a promise which paved the way for neighborhood approval of an earlier expansion.