Montreal City Weblog

Kate 21:00 on 2019-08-22 Permalink Reply  

• Faiz Imam 22:23 on 2019-08-22 Permalink

  ayyyy! Will you look at that.

  “Moins de stationnements et de commerces, plus de logements résidentiels et au moins une école”

  Music to my ears 🙂

  “le plan initial prévoyait 12 000 places de stationnement, ce chiffre a été considérablement revu à la baisse. Au printemps, Carbonleo misait sur un total de 9850 places, dont 3000 réservées au résidentiel.”

  So that means the problematic parking has gone from 12000 to ~7000 spots.

  Also, 5000 units being developed, and 3000 parking spots means a ratio of 0.6 spots per unit, which is pretty damn low, and far lower than many of the city’s sustainable development plans call for. 4 our of 10 units will not have dedicated parking, that’s very unusual for this type of project.

  But of course, its another megaproject, so the usual issues, such as the discussion about the brossard one last week, apply.

  But this is to a large extent what activists and environmental groups have been asking for. This project went from a mega mall to Griffintown 2.0. Still a problem, but of a very different kind. Also zero gentrification concerns, which is not something you get every day.

• js 12:38 on 2019-08-23 Permalink

  They’ve been clearing and leveling the space all summer, which might account for the increase in sightings of marmots and rabbits on the lawns of nearby buildings along Royalmount itself. They also moved a few beehives belonging to apiary to an adjacent empty lot, which I found by snooping around on my lunch break a few weeks ago.

  Have they released proposed maps showing how people coming west along the 40 or north on Decarie will be easily able to get there, or leave?