Linda Gyulai says the city’s case against Michael Applebaum in an attempt to wrest back some ill‑gotten gains will open next year while Frank Zampino is still finding ways to edge away from a court date.
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Kate
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Kate
This CBC piece talks as if the rule that buildings can’t be taller than Mount Royal is old and obsolete, but I know the rule has been reconfirmed by the city within the last few years.
Bill Binns
I had heard that this rule was meant to preserve views of the mountain from the city. If so, it has been a resounding failure. Even if I have it wrong and the rule was meant to preserve views of the city from the mountain it appears there were frequent exceptions made. The big round high rise that belongs to McGill on Pine and the 40 story Port Royal condo building on Sherbrooke come to mind.
Max
I’m more concerned about the south-looking sightlines from downtown these days. It seems every other month some piece of crap glass and concrete tower goes up in Griffintown ruining yet another vista onto the sud-ouest and the river.
Vazken
That article was click batey at best. I read the article then watched the video and I didn’t learn anything new. I had to look up myself if the law was still in the books (it is) and if any new planned buildings will be taller than the mountain (there aren’t)
JoeB
That pimple isn’t a mountain.
Also it was based on the religious belief that this “mountain” brought man closer to God.
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Kate
The main section of the Sun Life building was completed a century ago although it was enlarged several times afterwards, and for a time was the tallest building in the British Empire.
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Kate
Montreal hopes to have a ban on heating oil by 2021. It’s damaging stuff, far worse than natural gas.
(“Mazout” is a weird word. It’s from Arabic via Russian but how it then got into French I do not know. This wiktionary entry also says it’s the name of two different mixed drinks in France and Belgium.)
Ephraim
Just to be clear… a ban on heating oil in the city’s buildings, not citywide. They want to encourage people to move from home heating oil too, but that will take longer and will need money.. because you can’t remove the oil tanks as easily and it’s much more difficult to heat with electricity than with oil or natural gaz.
For example a 60 gallon tank on natural gaz may be sufficient to provide hot water for 10 people…. with electricity you would likely need 2 60 gallon tanks to do that. Heating large homes on electricity would require rewiring a home not only inside, but at the central connection as a 200 AMP connection might not be sufficient. And Hydro needs to build backup systems… you can’t have heating go down for too long in the winter without creating a disaster… frozen pipes and all.
dwgs
Gaz Met (or whatever they’re calling themselves these days) often offers an incentive program to switch from oil, we did it almost 20 years ago. They offer reasonable financing and their contractors handle the whole thing, I was impressed with the program. Removing the 2 huge oil tanks from the basement was quite the process, involving several large dirty men, a Sawzall, and more kitty litter than you can imagine.
A.
I switched from oil to electricity this summer (radiator heat, semi-detached two story house). It took half a day to make the change. It probably won’t be cheaper, but I feel much better being off oil. I wish I’d done it years ago. And oil heating goes off when the electricity is off, unless you have a backup generator. It’s good to see the city moving towards cleaner energy.
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Kate
A man died after going skating on Lac-St-Louis off Baie d’Urfé on Tuesday. Not a lot of detail but it appears he didn’t fall through the ice, nor do police think there’s anything suspicious about the death.
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Kate
Radio-Canada looks back at the year in news in Montreal. A good solid retrospective for 2018.
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