Historic Osgoode Hall trees spared by interim injunction — for now | 24CA News
Several historic bushes at Osgoode Hall in Toronto’s downtown have been spared after Metrolinx paused its plans to axe them to construct transit infrastructure after an interim court docket order.
The reprieve might be transient, lasting solely till Feb. 10.
On Saturday, representatives of the Law Society of Ontario, housed at Osgoode Hall by University Avenue and Queen Street, and Metrolinx, within the midst of setting up the Ontario Line, met in a digital courtroom.
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The court docket hyperlink to the net listening to was made accessible and accessible to the general public, and several other Zoom bombing outbursts delayed it. As the interruptions continued, Sarit Batner, representing Metrolinx, argued “something has to give with the porn and obscenities.”
Eventually, the court docket listening to moved to a webinar hyperlink, and, on Sunday morning, the Law Society of Ontario introduced its request for an interim injunction had been granted. It will stay in impact till midnight on Feb. 10, until it’s prolonged.
In its assertion, Metrolinx stated it had met with the regulation society 17 occasions “to avoid unnecessary delays that will cause significant financial consequences to taxpayers and commuters.”
The provincial transit company’s plans to take away a number of bushes on the grounds of Osgood Hall to accommodate the development of a station on its deliberate Ontario Line have raised issues from vocal advocates.
The location of the proposed subway station, Osgoode Hall, is the oldest constantly used institutional property in Toronto and it, together with its 1867 heritage fence and the grounds surrounding it, are designated below the Ontario Heritage Act and have been acknowledged as one in every of Canada’s most vital heritage belongings.
The Ontario Line is slated to run from the Ontario Science Centre to Ontario Place, connecting the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, GO Transit and each Line 1 and Line 2 of the Toronto subway.
— with recordsdata from Global News’ Matthew Bingley
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