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Two letters going to city politicians this week demonstrate that businesses in the Old East Village aren’t convinced putting a bike lane on the south side of Dundas Street as part of a biking corridor from the core to OEV is the way to go.

“As a proprietor who founded and continues to operate a restaurant on Dundas Street, which employs 25 people, I am gravely concerned with the complete removal of parking on the south side of Dundas Street,” writes Jeff Pastorius, of the Root Cellar and On The Move Organics.

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“A change of this magnitude without a robust plan to provide support to the businesses in OEV is a proposition that poses a great threat to these family-owned and -operated enterprises.”

The other missive is from Robert Campbell, the head of a numbered Ontario company.

“As a property owner of five commercial storefronts in the OEV, I am concerned what the impact of losing parking to bike lanes on Dundas will do to existing businesses, customers and my ability to lease the other vacant spaces,” Campbell writes.