{"id":620,"date":"2008-02-16T23:39:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T04:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=620"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:25:38","slug":"poll-are-montreals-boroughs-too-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/02\/16\/poll-are-montreals-boroughs-too-big\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Are Montreal&#8217;s boroughs too big?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.mcgill.ca\/history\/highschools\/Monklands\/ndghistory.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.education.mcgill.ca\/history\/highschools\/Monklands\/images\/ndg1879.jpg\" width=\"500\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my professors at McGill used to refer jokingly to &#8220;NDG angst,&#8221; which is what people who lived in NDG felt when they compared their middle-class but somewhat ratty neighbourhood with the fine polish of next-door Westmount. It&#8217;s more than just a joke, though: in terms of the quality of its municipal services, NDG fares poorly not only in comparison to the wealthy municipalities that surround it on three sides but even to C\u00f4te des Neiges, with which it shares the city&#8217;s largest borough, C\u00f4te-des-Neiges&#8212;Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe being part of such a large borough is the reason why the quality of NDG&#8217;s public services is so lacking. &#8220;NDG needs to separate,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/coolopolis.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/ndg-needs-to-separate.html\">declared lower NDG resident and Coolopolis blogger Kristian Gravenor<\/a> earlier this week. &#8220;When they drew the map and jammed these two boroughs together into one borough, the pencil pushers were clearly tripping on lysergic acid,&#8221; wrote Gravenor. &#8220;In a city where many boroughs and municipalities have under 20,000 people, this single monster borough covers an area of 20 square kilomters and 163,000 residents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CDN\/NDG isn&#8217;t the only unwieldy borough in the city. Park Extension, Villeray and St. Michel are all combined into the same administrative area. Ville-Marie stretches all the way east to Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, lumping disparate neighbourhoods like Ste. Marie, Old Montreal and Shaughnessy Village together. So what do you think &#8212; are Montreal&#8217;s boroughs too big? 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