ville-marie Union sur le parc - 20, 20 étages (2020)

[hockey19]

Shaughnessy Village residents say the district needs a park, not more condos

 

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/shaughnessey-village-residents-say-the-district-needs-a-park-not-more-condos

 

 

Residents made a heartfelt plea Tuesday to save the last vacant green space in western downtown as a park at public hearings on two proposed condo towers on René-Lévesque Blvd. W.

 

“We create dog runs so dogs can run free. Bravo! But why do we lack compassion for ordinary citizens who don’t have a chance to get out of the city?” asked Marielle Ouellette, a retired language teacher of French as a second language who moved into the Shaughnessy Village neighbourhood last September.

 

Ouellette was among about two dozen local residents who packed a hearing by Montreal’s consultation bureau on developer Prével’s project for two 60-metre condo towers on the south side of René-Lévesque Blvd., just west of Fort St.

 

 

The 20-storey condo project, next to the access road to the westbound Ville-Marie Expressway, would replace a former Franciscan monastery that burned down in 2010. The two towers, to be connected by a one-storey base at the ground level, would rise between two historic houses dating from 1850 and 1874.

 

“You don’t have to be an urban planner” to see that the historic villas will “be crushed by this new building,” Ouellette said.

 

“Montreal is losing its soul,” she told the hearing.

 

“And we want to build 360 condos on a piece of land that has trees on it now. … Condos that will add to all the other condos we’re already building in the district,” said Ouellette, who said that what the neighbourhood really needs is not more condos, but a park.

 

But heritage icon Phyllis Lambert, founder of the neighbouring Canadian Centre for Architecture, told the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) she agreed in principle with the condo towers.

 

“The neighbourhood really needs good, middle-class people,” Lambert said in an interview with the Montreal Gazette after delivering her brief.

 

“The park doesn’t make sense to me at all,” she said.

 

Lambert, 89, said she considered the project’s architecture unfinished and said an advisory committee should be set up to oversee the design of the building and that a competition should be held to design the landscaping around it.

 

She said the district rivals Old Montreal for its historic past and high-quality architecture.

 

 

 

 

Jacques Larin, 82, who has lived in a restored greystone in the neighbourhood for 40 years, said the neighbourhood is already densely inhabited but lacks parks, community centres and recreation facilities.

 

He noted that area residents — of whom 42 per cent live on low incomes, compared to 23 per cent for Montreal as a whole — are poorly served compared to those in other districts. “There is a great inequity,” Larin said.

 

Four out of five of the district’s 34,000 residents live in apartment buildings of five storeys or more.

 

Residents who oppose the project accuse Mayor Denis Coderre of turning a deaf ear to their appeals for a park where local children could play soccer and adults could stroll.

 

The area between Atwater Ave., Sherbrooke St., Bishop St. and the cliff south of René-Lévesque is called the Quartier des grands jardins, because of vast religious properties like the former Grey Nuns’ Mother House at René-Lévesque and Guy St., now part of Concordia University.

 

But the Peter McGill Community Council noted the public does not have access to the private gardens around such institutions.

 

The district has 0.6 hectares (one and a half acres) of green space per 1,000 residents, while the recommended amount is four hectares (10 acres) per 1,000 residents. The average in Montreal is two hectares per 1,000 residents.

 

The council said the neighbourhood saw its population grow by 16 per cent from 2006 to 2011 and will receive 8,990 new residents in the next few years.

 

The council also criticized Coderre for revoking citizens’ right to demand a referendum on the condo project.

 

Normally, residents would have been able to force a referendum if enough people were opposed and signed a register. However, in March the Ville-Marie borough invoked an article of the city charter that bars that recourse. Article 89 allows a borough to bypass a referendum for a project judged to be of exceptional importance.

Modifié 8 juin 2016 par hockey19

[nephersir7]

But heritage icon Phyllis Lambert, founder of the neighbouring Canadian Centre for Architecture, told the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) she agreed in principle with the condo towers.

 

“The neighbourhood really needs good, middle-class people,” Lambert said in an interview with the Montreal Gazette after delivering her brief.

 

“The park doesn’t make sense to me at all,” she said.

 

La voix de la raison!

 

 

In other news, sur le site de l'OCPM, une vidéo intéressante: (malgré que plusieurs projets environnants sont représentés de manière désuète)

[Maisonneuve]

But heritage icon Phyllis Lambert, founder of the neighbouring Canadian Centre for Architecture, told the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) she agreed in principle with the condo towers.

 

“The neighbourhood really needs good, middle-class people,” Lambert said in an interview with the Montreal Gazette after delivering her brief.

 

“The park doesn’t make sense to me at all,” she said.

 

 

I'm shocked that Lambert is in favour of this project. I was certain that she would be on the same side as the neighbourhood residents.

[MtlMan]

But heritage icon Phyllis Lambert, founder of the neighbouring Canadian Centre for Architecture, told the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) she agreed in principle with the condo towers.

 

“The neighbourhood really needs good, middle-class people,” Lambert said in an interview with the Montreal Gazette after delivering her brief.

 

“The park doesn’t make sense to me at all,” she said.

 

 

I'm shocked that Lambert is in favour of this project. I was certain that she would be on the same side as the neighbourhood residents.

 

She is somewhat hard to follow lately....

[MartinMtl]

She is somewhat hard to follow lately....

 

Not true. Aux audiences de l'Ocpm sur ce qui est devenu les condos O'neissy juste en face du CCA, il y a environ 7 ou 8 ans, elle avait dèjà milité pour permettre l'augmentation des hauteurs. Elle disait ne pas comprendre l'aversion de certains intervenants au sujet de la hauteur et de la densité.

[mont royal]

For children, it is a bad and outright dangerous location for a park.

[vincethewipet]

Phyllis Lambert n'est pas difficile à comprendre, elle est tout simplement en faveur de ce qu'elle considère de la qualité. Elle a poussé pour des gratte-ciel, de la conservation, de l'architecture contemporaine, etc... Elle n'a jamais été coincé dans un moule unique.

[hockey19]

For children, it is a bad and outright dangerous location for a park.

 

I agree.

 

Heavy traffic getting on and off 720.

Exits often blocked or rerouted choice for a detour.

Speedsters on RL.

Etc

 

These buildings make sense. Let there be height!

[andre md]

Un tunnel pietonnier qui va de Rene Lesvesques a George Vanier et St-Antoine passe juste en dessous de ce terrain ou pas tres loin. Alors ca peut aider pour l'access au parc.

[jerry]

I agree.

 

Heavy traffic getting on and off 720.

Exits often blocked or rerouted choice for a detour.

Speedsters on RL.

Etc

 

These buildings make sense. Let there be height!

 

C'est sûrement pourquoi Mme Lambert dit que ce parc n'a pas beaucoup de sens, contrairement à elle qui a gardé tout le sien (bon sens) malgré son âge avancé.