{"id":847,"date":"2008-04-29T22:52:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T03:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/04\/29\/council-gives-green-light-to-griffintown-project\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:37:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:37:03","slug":"council-gives-green-light-to-griffintown-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/29\/council-gives-green-light-to-griffintown-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Council gives green light to Griffintown project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3008\/2453730926_abecc626db.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s municipal council meeting was the night when Griffintown&#8217;s future was finally decided.  Despite recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/components\/print.aspx?id=1373064e-56ce-4dcc-b45d-3ce7952bb12b&amp;sponsor=\">pleas<\/a> from experts to stop the project, a city councillor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/montreal\/story\/2008\/04\/28\/qc-griffintownvote0428.html\">asking for a delay<\/a> on the vote, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2008\/04\/28\/187204.html\">demo<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/components\/print.aspx?id=e0176c38-c7f0-4daa-a17c-9434af6bbe8b&amp;sponsor=\">mock funeral<\/a> which led around 200 people through Griffintown to city hall, the PPU which will allow Devimco to build their massive 1.3 billion dollar mixed-use development was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2008\/04\/29\/187408.html\">approved<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The motion to approve the PPU was passed by all but three councillors (Marvin Rotrand and Warren Allmand from Tremblay&#8217;s Union Montr\u00e9al party as well as Richard Bergeron from Projet Montr\u00e9al) who all expressed concerns about the lack of time given to review the project details and to properly hold public consultations.  Rotrand expressed particular concern about the city electing not to use the Office de consultation publique de Montr\u00e9al (OCPM), a non partisan commission which was set up to allow public review just such a project.  Furthermore, just last week many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/components\/print.aspx?id=f99e9613-667e-4143-ad6c-06a44a50412b&amp;k=51307\">changes were made to Devimco&#8217;s plan<\/a> in response to concerns brought up during public consultations (most of the changes are trivial and amount mostly to green-washing).  Apparently the mayor saw no point in making time to review major changes made to the development plan.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest issue with the approval of the PPU is the precedent it may set for future developments in Montreal. With this yes vote, it is now official that the city has the ability (and apparently the desire) to be co-opted by private developers, bypass its own public consultation process, and then approve a plan for a development project that hasn&#8217;t even been fully thought out yet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Jack Ruttan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s municipal council meeting was the night when Griffintown&#8217;s future was finally decided. 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