Residents of this sleepy burg weren't so placid this weekend as the Cherry Street Charette erupted into chaos, with members of several camps hurling invectives, scented Mr. Sketch markers and flipchart paper at each other.

At issue is the city's proposed plan for re-purposing the gritty drag, whose only redeeming feature at present is the Canary Restaurant. City scions have a plan for the area, envisioning a broad and majestic avenue à la Spadina, sweeping down toward Lakeshore, ultimately leading to the internationally renowned Waterfront Wastelands.

Some residents, however, have a different vision - a more intimate thoroughfare, without the streetcar right of ways and other features that would widen the thoroughfare to the width of a soccer field - a change that would make it difficult for the locals to shout insults or fire guns at each other.

One city official quipped "Why do people bother going through all this? No one's going to do anything, it's all a charette."

To which a local resident replied, eyes flashing with barely suppressed rage "Don't be a fool, you pompous politico, you can't have intimacy without losing your Cherry! "