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The agency charged with revitalizing Toronto’s waterfront is defending its decision to spend $529,800 on two large granite rocks trucked in from the Laurentians and painted with candy-coloured stripes that adorn its signature urban beach.

Waterfront Toronto also confirmed it spent $11,565 on each of the 36 pink umbrellas that dot Canada’s Sugar Beach, a sandy outpost next to a sugar factory that opened four years ago. It was lauded then as a sign of more bright things to come on a once industrial lake front.

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On Wednesday, new details emerged about specific aspects of the $14.1-million park courtesy of city councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, who obtained the information from the agency as it prepares to make its case for more government funding.

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He also learned that it spent $470,000 to clad a pavilion at neighbouring Sherbourne Common in zinc shingles — some of which now have to be replaced at the city’s expense because they were damaged by pucks fired from an adjacent ice rink (which doubles as a splash pad in summer). It was intended for skating, not hockey.