East-end wooded area to be sacrificed
A wooded area near Assomption metro is to fall to the axe for a real estate development. Nearby residents are making a last ditch effort to save it.
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Blork 13:20 on 2023-03-07 Permalink
TIL there’s a wooded area near Assomption metro.
What an odd and random little patch of forest. It’s not very big — 120×175 metres — but as the article says, it’s a nice bit of green amid a somewhat industrial area. (Lungs!)
I’m surprised it took developers this long to find it. It’s not really well located to be used as a park, and I don’t think there’s any other framework for what to do with a patch of wild trees in the middle of the city.
I hope those people are successful in their unlikely attempt to stop the developers. If this were an episode of The Sopranos the developers would dump a few dead bodies in the park to show how such a space is a danger to society, and they’d get the DENSITY AT ANY COST advocates on board and that would be that.
DeWolf 13:38 on 2023-03-07 Permalink
@Blork More like they’d send some guys to chop down all the trees at midnight. Happens all the time on Montreal’s suburban fringes, but probably not in a site like this with a lot of public scrutiny.
DeWolf 13:43 on 2023-03-07 Permalink
Seriously though, as the article mentions this project is “de plein droit” according to the area’s zoning which means there isn’t any legal way for the city to stop it. The most they could do would be a land swap but I doubt the developer would be interested given the prime location next to the metro.
Seems like a serious oversight from when the Assomption PPU (local master plan) was adopted in 2017. Maybe you wonder about how much on-the-ground knowledge the planning department actually has.
Chris 13:58 on 2023-03-07 Permalink
If they don’t cut *those* tree down to build houses, they’ll cut down some *other* trees in the exurbs and sprawl the city out further. The almost 1/2 million new immigrants we added last year have to go somewhere.
Cadichon 14:02 on 2023-03-07 Permalink
No, it’s not a matter of knowledge, that wooden lot has been known and targeted for development since forever and the people mobilizing to keep it as a park have also been active for a lot of time. Actually, I wonder if it’s more a matter of delay. Almost10 years have passed since planning started. Trees have had time to grow and the area may look nicer now than it did.