{"id":734,"date":"2008-03-24T19:15:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T00:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/03\/24\/griffintown-news-roundup-4-feb-21-march-24\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:37:04","slug":"griffintown-news-roundup-4-feb-21-march-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/03\/24\/griffintown-news-roundup-4-feb-21-march-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffintown News Roundup #4: Feb. 21-March 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3118\/2359661848_80a28431d0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It has been over a month since I&#8217;ve done my last new roundup so, because there have been such a large number of news items over such a long period of time I will simply give an overview of events concerning Griffintown and the proposed redevelopment from the last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong>Over 500 people filled up a room at \u00c9TS for the first in a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/components\/print.aspx?id=87e87fb2-927c-492c-9466-4078f93fdc0c\">public consultations<\/a> on February 21st.  The city and developer Devimco each gave presentations, then fielded questions from the audience.  So many people signed up to ask questions that extra days were added to accommodate them.  Kate of the <a href=\"http:\/\/w5.montreal.com\/mtlweblog\/index.html\">Montreal City Weblog<\/a> was in attendance and  <a href=\"http:\/\/w5.montreal.com\/mtlweblog\/2008\/02\/griffintown-meeting-proves-popular.html\">remarked<\/a> that &#8220;the sketches shown looked like a mashup of Nuns&#8217; Island and parts of Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque Boulevard, so that the repeated mantra of <em>\u00e9chelle humaine<\/em> was kind of a joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong>Devimco puts together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2008\/02\/20\/176905.html\">&#8220;think-tanks&#8221;<\/a> of various <a href=\"http:\/\/lapresseaffaires.cyberpresse.ca\/article\/20080219\/LAINFORMER\/80219092\/5891\/LAINFORMER01\">experts<\/a> to study different aspects of the redevelopment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2008\/02\/21\/177132.html\">Other developers<\/a> interested in redeveloping the area have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/article\/20080221\/CPACTUALITES\/802210843\">expressing anger<\/a> that the city is giving Devimco complete control over the project and that nobody else was asked to put forth proposals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong>A <a href=\"http:\/\/csrgriffintown.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/02\/sign-the-griffintown-petition-signer-la-petition-griffintown\/\">petition<\/a> is launched by The Committee for the Sustainable Redevelopment of Griffintown (CSRG) asking for a more democratic process in regards to public consultations, among other issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong>March 10th saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/montreal\/story\/2008\/03\/11\/qc-griffintown0311.html\">second round<\/a> of public consultations begin which ran for the entire week.  Over 50 briefs were presented to the city and Devimco and about 85 in total were submitted.  CSRG <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/components\/print.aspx?id=06a63cd1-cbe5-49cc-9002-afd5e86532b2&amp;k=10350\">held a press conference<\/a> beforehand and arrived to the consultations in a caleche.  The majority of briefs presented were against Devimco&#8217;s project and many offered examples of alternatives from European cities.  During one such presentation where someone was outlining a European example of good urban design of a redevelopment similar to Griffintown, Devimco president Serge Goulet was paying more attention to his Blackberry than the presentation. All of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ville.montreal.qc.ca\/portal\/page?_pageid=81,14596415&amp;_dad=portal&amp;_schema=PORTAL\">briefs (m\u00e9moires)<\/a> can be found on the Sud-Ouest borough&#8217;s website along with all other documents concerning the public consultations (my personal favourite being Devimco&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ville.montreal.qc.ca\/pls\/portal\/docs\/page\/arr_so_fr\/media\/documents\/video_projet_griffintown.htm\">animation<\/a> showing how the development may look after it is finished).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong>The CRSG <a href=\"http:\/\/csrgriffintown.wordpress.com\/\">blog<\/a> reports that &#8220;a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/article\/20080319\/CPACTUALITES\/803190753\/5155\/CPACTUALITES\">L\u00e9ger Marketing poll<\/a> indicates 47% of Montrealers are \u201cfor\u201d Projet Griffintown, 17% are against it, and 36% are either undecided or don\u2019t know about the project. Devimco is spinning this as a \u201cwin,\u201d but this reading of the numbers obliterates the nuances of people who are for redevelopment, but not in the monopolistic fashion, nor in the scale or form which Devimco and the current PPU are proposing. It also showcases the fact that something with a city-wide impact is slipping by citizens unnoticed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong>Members of the CRSG make the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealmirror.com\/2008\/032008\/bigcover.html\">cover<\/a> of this weeks Mirror with an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealmirror.com\/2008\/032008\/news1.html\">story<\/a> about the redevelopment proposal, its opposition, and a chronology of the history of Griffintown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong>Le Devoir runs an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2008\/03\/21\/181466.html\">open letter<\/a> on march 21st from Phyllis Lambert, several prominent architects and urbanists, and the Order of Urbanists of Qu\u00e9bec calling for a new, open consultation process on Projet Griffintown using the OCPM.<\/p>\n<p><em>Past Griffintown news roundups can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/01\/22\/recent-news-on-griffintown-redevelopment\/\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/02\/04\/more-news-on-griffintown-redevlopment\/\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/02\/19\/griffintown-news-roundup-3-feb\/\">3<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been over a month since I&#8217;ve done my last new roundup so, because there have been such a large number of news items over such a long period of time I will simply give an overview of events concerning Griffintown and the proposed redevelopment from the last month. &#8211;Over 500 people filled up<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/03\/24\/griffintown-news-roundup-4-feb-21-march-24\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Griffintown News Roundup #4: Feb. 21-March 24&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7836,7839,7842],"tags":[1579,1896,2090,9,1103,36,73,486,275,2092,2091,5,1035,1782,1122],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-neighbourhoods","category-urban-design","tag-animation","tag-committee-for-the-sustainable-redevelopment-of-griffintown","tag-crsg","tag-development","tag-devimco","tag-griffintown","tag-headlines-a-la-une","tag-le-devoir","tag-montreal-city","tag-montrealers","tag-phyllis-lambert","tag-planning","tag-president","tag-serge-goulet","tag-sud-ouest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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