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Visit to The Pinball Cafe in Toronto
spoot:
I'm trying to grasp the "logic" of two devices for a place of amusement. :dizzy:
brad808:
Seems like a pretty ridiculous "who really gives a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---" laws. Something that they feel the need to enforce even though the general public couldn't care less if he has 2 pinballs or 30 pinballs. I'm sure there is way more important things for our government to be doing then worrying about how many machines are in the pinball cafe ::)
Really sucks because I didn't get a chance to get down there yet and check it out yet because I live out of T.O. now.
spoot:
They limit brothels to two hookers too? :cheers:
Mental:
RIP Pinball Cafe. It's a sad day for pinball in Toronto.
CheffoJeffo:
Well, as they say, it seems that there is more to the story. Had my messages for the city councilor returned and ...
--- Quote ---Some of you have called me about the closure of the Pinball Cafe. Evidently, the owners have claimed that they were closed by order of the City of Toronto. I have confirmed today that The Pinball Cafe was not ordered closed by the City of Toronto. No City staff issued any order against the Cafe. In fact, according to Jason Hazzard, co-owner of the Cafe, this establishment has never had a business licence.
The owners had a zoning issue to overcome in order to get a licence. I met with the owners of the Pinball Cafe in February of this year and urged them to get a business licence and offered them suggestions for two possible ways to do this. They could apply to the Committee of Adjustment to allow for a “variance” from the zoning rules, or they could ask City Council to change the zoning of this property. It appears the owners did neither.
Evidently the owners also claim that the Interim Control Bylaw (ICB) controlling new business applications on Queen St. is to blame. To be clear the ICB cannot close a legally operating establishment.
I am sad to see Pinball go, but it was a decision of the owners to operate without a licence, and their decision to close.
--- End quote ---
Also a story in the Toronto Star saying the same thing.
And their Facebook page is gone, including the posting of the announcement (thus killing my link to it).