Like bears at the dump in cottage country, they congregate where the food is. Nothing will be done until we see encampments in Craigleigh Gardens, June Rowlands Park, Edwards Gardens and other parks in the wealthy parts of Toronto. But like bears without a dumpster, these parks don’t have the food source and thus don’t attract the squatters.
The fix for Allan Gardens is to close it at night, same as many parks in London, UK and Halifax, NS. Put up a nice wrought iron fence around the park like the main park in Halifax, and patrol at night, see below. Why can’t we have something this nice downtown?
Heck, can we have a park warden during the day to control things? Thank god for that moat around the Toronto Islands, that paywall and the lack of free food are the only things preventing those parks from becoming a dump.