At the request of our community, the BIA has been providing daily monitoring and cleaning of Seaton Park since last summer.

City Council has also approved a motion to expand the BIA’s boundaries to include the park (2025 EC25.11) and the BIA, with the support of Councillor Saxe and using Section 37 funds, is now leading changes to the park design and features and will manage the space for the public to enjoy.

Working with landscape architects DTAH, the BIA plans to elevate the location to the same standard as our award-winning parkettes at the intersections of Bloor and Howland, Major, Robert, and Brunswick, which feature amenities such as seating and pollinator gardens.

DTAH’s design approach

• The design proposal involves strategic removals and site reorganization
  
• Obsolete site furnishings and southern fence /hedge along the laneway are removed.This move opens up the site along the southern edge.This will establish a new relationship to the laneway, creating a new less confined space, one that is safer (multiple entry points rather than the existing narrow two). A proposed curb elevation change, similar to street relationship is proposed.
  
• The existing confined park entrance along Albany Avenue is also redefined, allowing improved east -west access from Albany Ave.
  
• The existing planting at the northern property line is kept and enhanced.
  
• New seating opportunities, site lighting, paved areas are introduced, positioned, and balanced with new perennial planting to create a new overall dynamic space that responds to better site lines/ pedestrian safety and pedestrian flow allowing greater opportunities for viewing murals/artwork along the laneway.

If you have any questions about the revitalization plans for Seaton Park or would like to provide any feedback on the proposal, please email bloorannexbiagm@gmail.com. 

The deadline to provide comment is Feb. 15, 2026 at 5 p.m.