Several residents on the same Scarborough street are angry and perplexed after they all received notices from the city, warning them they had just three days to remove their basketball nets from the curbside after several years of hoops harmony.

Tony Cacciatore moved to his Scarborough-Rouge Park neighbourhood in 2019 and has had both a basketball and hockey net at the foot of his driveway since then. This week he was given a yellow notice from a city worker telling him those nets had to go.

At first he was angry and confused, he said, over why he was being singled out on a street where there are about a dozen homes with similar nets. He’s since learned that all of his neighbours got the same warning, but his frustration remains.

“It’s been there a long time, the kids get good use out

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