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Minnan-Wong called the $175,000 to design the Cherry Beach washroom and a $600,000 total cost “a lot of money” for what is “essentially a single purpose facility.”

“You don’t really tour. You just go in, do your business, and move on,” he said. “It’s not like people are going to travel from all over North America to come and visit our cans.”

Minnan-Wong said the city has been able to design washrooms $25,000 design, and build them for $250,000.

Waterfront Toronto told the Sun there were “unique challenges” that added to the cost of the washrooms, which included having a build a large sanitary tank on site due to lack of sewers on Unwin Ave.

Minnan-Wong was not swayed by Councillor Paula Fletcher’s assertion that the washrooms cost more because a sewer system had to be installed.

“There may have to be a modest mark up but I certainly don’t believe we have to pay that type of money for that type of design. I mean they’re four toilets and a couple of sinks.”

It has been twice within a week that Ford has hammered Waterfront Toronto for newly revealed costs of older projects. He went on the attack for the $1-million cost of rocks and umbrellas for the popular Sugar Beach, incorrectly telling a local Cantonese-language TV station that the project, which opened in August 2010, was put through during his two months in rehab this year.

City Council voted last week to go ahead with a review of Toronto’s waterfront revitalization project, which has gone through most of the $1.5-billion it has received from the federal, provincial and municipal government when it was given the task more than 10 years ago.

Waterfront Toronto is looking $1.65-billion over the next 10 years for further projects, including light-rail transit, but Ford suggests the extensive work to the waterfront and the Port Lands has not been worth the money to this point.

“Although Waterfront Toronto does not report directly to the Mayor, or to Toronto City Council, all government bodies are responsible to the taxpayer,” Ford’s statement read.

“Since 2001, we haven’t seen value for money at Waterfront Toronto.”