Time is up for a collection of four barns in a Cambridge park.
Citing public safety concerns, city councillors voted Monday night to demolish the group of structures in Dickson Park, near Park Hill Road and George Street.
“We’ve had a great debate, we’ve had a great discussion on this, and this is now going to happen,” Mayor Doug Craig tells CTV News.
The barns have been fenced off for the past two years, and before that were used only by the local 4-H club to shelter livestock during the Cambridge Fall Fair.
While previous considerations about the barns’ future met resistance from residents opposed to demolishing the structures, Craig says he hasn’t heard such concerns this time.
“It hasn’t been an issue that we’ve heard from the citizens lately, in terms of it being something they’re overly concerned about,” he says.
In addition to taking down the current barns, councillors voted to build a replica structure on the same site.
