{"id":463,"date":"2008-01-15T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=463"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:37:10","slug":"devimco-presentation-on-griffintown-residents-not-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/01\/15\/devimco-presentation-on-griffintown-residents-not-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Devimco presentation on Griffintown: Residents not welcome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2376\/2179149038_f15a8aac8c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago, I and a fellow resident of Griffintown were invited to attend a presentation on the planned redevelopment of the area by developer Devimco. The presentation was hosted by L&#8217;Action Gardien, an umbrella organisation for the various community groups in Pointe St-Charles.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation was well attended by representatives from the different community groups (although, the presentation was only part of a larger meeting). Two people gave the presentation; Luc Ouimet from &#8220;Le Centre de Consultation et de Concertation&#8221; and George Boss\u00e9 who, as I understand, has a fairly colourful and somewhat controversial history (Le Devoir <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2006\/11\/15\/122870.html\">ran a story<\/a> on him last year outlining some problems he had with conflict of interest issues due to his past job as mayor of Verdun). Mr. Boss\u00e9 gave most of the presentation and Mr. Ouimet fielded the majority of the questions.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as my neighbour and I had taken off our jackets, Mr. Ouimet approached us and began asking questions.  He asked where we lived and why we were interested in the presentation.  We have suspected that Devimco has been quite ignorant towards the entire area and our suspicions were somewhat validated when said that he thought there were only people living on de la Montagne and showed surprise that we live in other parts of the area.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation itself was much as I expected.  Facts and figures were given that didn&#8217;t differ much from what the media has been reporting since the plan was first unveiled.  Land use maps were shown outlining the composition of the different areas along with details of studies that were done on how the project will affect commercial activity on Ste-Catherine.  Historic buildings that will be preserved or moved were shown and mock-ups of what the project might look like when it is finished were presented at the end.  I found it interesting and a bit disconcerting that transit was not touched upon as part of the official presentation and the tramway was not mentioned until a member of the audience brought it up in a question.  A PDF of the entire PowerPoint presentation can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/01\/griffintown_ppt_coalitionpetitebourgogne_nov07.pdf\">here<\/a> (I was given a booklet but I don\u2019t know where one would be able to acquire one).<\/p>\n<p>Some points of interest from the presentation after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Here are a few points of interest from the presentation (some of which can be found in the .PDF file linked above):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; There will be 3 860 housing units in total.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; 600 000 square feet of the development will be greenspace\/parks.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; The makeup of the rest will be 65% residential and 18% commercial (4% of the total is large commercial, 6% medium, and 8% small).<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Only 12 existing buildings will be preserved, 2 of which will be moved, and there will be demolition and partial reconstruction of 4.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; The project will be pretty green.  They plan on getting LEED certification and will be working with \u00c9TS to develop some fairly creative schemes to make it environmentally friendly.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; There will be a total of 12 parks\/public spaces (outlined in the booklet\/.PDF file).  One thing I&#8217;m curious about and should have asked about is who will own these &#8220;public spaces&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; The western section (everything west of de la Montagne) will be exclusively residential. The buildings along the canal can only be a maximum height of 25 metres (around 6-8 stories).  The audience seemed quite concerned that none of the low-income housing would be in this area and would be concentrated in the high-rises to the east.  He assured us that this will not be the case (people didn&#8217;t seem very convinced).<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; South of Wellington will not be residential at all.  It will be composed of hotels, cinemas, theatres, conference rooms, etc.  There will be a total of 300 hotel rooms and he assured the audience that the cinema would be francophone (I&#8217;m not sure how they can assure that at this point).<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; North of Wellington and east of de la Montagne will be mixed use commercial and residential. The current zoning regulations say buildings (except those along the canal) can have a maximum height of 60 metres, which is approximately 18 stories (about the same as the nearby Terraces Windsor).<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; A guarantee was given that there definitely will not be a Wal-Mart.  They said that their research has found that Wal-Mart is not welcome in the Sud-Ouest so they won&#8217;t bring one.  This seemed to be a pretty sincere promise.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; A question was asked about who would pay for the infrastructure.  He said the city and Devimco would split the cost of aboveground infrastructure and the city would pay for all of the underground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the end of the presentation, we found out that they were not happy that residents of Griffintown were present, that \u201cit wasn\u2019t part of the deal\u201d.  To me, this represents the greatest problem of the whole project: it\u2019s completely closed to the public and they are not interested in input from those who may be affected by it.  The tone of the presentation was not one of public consultation but of a done deal that was being vaguely presented to us as a favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, I and a fellow resident of Griffintown were invited to attend a presentation on the planned redevelopment of the area by developer Devimco. The presentation was hosted by L&#8217;Action Gardien, an umbrella organisation for the various community groups in Pointe St-Charles. 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