Le Séville - 7, 11, 11, 20 étages (2013)

[Habsfan]

J'espère que ces groupes de pression seront ignorés! Quand c'est rendu que tu chiales contres des immeubles de 25 étages en pleine ville, c'est que tu ne sais plus sur quoi tu devrais chialer.

[GDS]

The OCPM report was released. It wants this project reduced to 20 floors.

[Cataclaw]

The Cataclaw report was released. It wants the OCPM reduced to shut the hell up you god damn nimby idiots.

[MTLskyline]

How does reducing the size of the building by 5 stories accomplish anything? It's not like those 5 extra stories make a huge difference?!

[Malek]

The Cataclaw report was released. It wants the OCPM reduced to shut the hell up you god damn nimby idiots.

 

:rotfl:

[cjb]

je ne comprends pas trop non plus. 25, c'est trop, mais 20 c'est OK.

 

Où est la logique? Quelle est la raison avancée par l'OCPM ??

[Cataclaw]

je ne comprends pas trop non plus. 25, c'est trop, mais 20 c'est OK.

 

Où est la logique? Quelle est la raison avancée par l'OCPM ??

 

S'ils auraient proposé 30 étages, ça aurait été trop et l'OCPM aurait suggéré une réduction à 25 étages... et là ça aurait été OK.

 

 

 

Il faut quasiment proposer des projets plus hauts pour ainsi obtenir, après les réductions irrationnelles, quelque chose d'une bonne hauteur.

[Atze]

Report knocks Seville plan down a few storeys

 

Developer asked to preserve remnants of historic theatre

 

By Linda Gyulai,

Gazette Civic Affairs Reporter

July 27, 2009

 

A woman walks past the facade of the abandoned Seville theatre on Ste. Catherine St. in Montreal in February 2009. The Gazette has learned Montreal’s public-consultation office wants developers revamping the old Seville site to preserve the remnants of the theatre.

Photograph by:

Pierre Obendrauf, The Gazette

 

MONTREAL - Montreal’s public consultation office is giving a thumbs down to the height of a proposed 25-storey tower at Ste. Catherine and Lambert Closse Sts. and asking the developer behind the renewal of the decaying block of western downtown to find a way to conserve the remnants of the old Seville theatre.

 

But heritage activists wonder whether city hall will follow the recommendations or let the report to collect dust.

 

The $100-million redevelopment proposal by Claridge Properties Ltd. would benefit the public by revamping a long-neglected eyesore, the Office de la consultation publique concludes in a 55-page report based on hearings it held on the project in April. The report will be presented to the city executive committee Wednesday.

 

Nevertheless, several improvements need to be made to the project, says the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Gazette.

 

For instance, the 25-storey tower, the tallest of three highrises the project calls for along Ste. Catherine, should be reduced to 54 metres from a planned 69.7 metres, it says.

 

The city’s urban plan limits height to 25 metres.

 

Knocking several floors off the proposed building would preserve the view onto the St. Lawrence River from Cedar Ave. and Côte des Neiges Rd. and allow the building to better integrate with nearby Cabot Square, the report says.

 

The developer should also make it a priority to preserve remaining heritage elements where they are, it says.

 

The report says the consultation office is mindful of the precedents that would be created if a building with heritage citation, such as the Seville, is allowed to be razed and if the proposed height of the highrise is allowed.

 

Claridge is seeking permission to demolish what remains of the 81-year-old Seville, which has been closed since 1985, but reuse some of its elements in the project as a way to pay tribute to it.

 

“It’s a useful report,” Heritage Montreal policy director Dinu Bumbaru said. “But is the city actually going to follow up? … We don’t know.”

 

The city has no legal obligation to implement the recommendations, he said. Moreover, successive city administrations allowed the Seville “to suffer and die” under previous owners even though the municipality gave it heritage citation in 1990, he said.

 

Claridge did not return calls Monday.

 

The project calls for construction of 635 student housing apartments containing 1,155 rooms, as well as community and recreational space. It calls for one public garden and two private ones. Between the highrises, a six-storey mall along Ste. Catherine would contain commercial space.

 

The consultation office recommends the mall’s height be dropped to four storeys.

 

lgyulai@thegazette.canwest.com

© Copyright © The Montreal Gazette

 

http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Report+knocks+Seville+plan+down+storeys/1834107/story.html

[LED]

Lollll, le petit commerce de 6 étages qu'ils veulent faire à côté devra être réduit à 4... Ça pu rapport! 6 étages...merde c'est trop mettons 4. Dire que y'a rien depuis 1985 et y'a des Bumbaru qui préfère avoir une ruine plutot qu'un édifice utile.

[Habsfan]

Je me demande quand exactement la ville va réaliser que son esti de plan d'urbanisme est beaucoup trop sévère? TOUT projet proposé dans cette ville contrait à règles d'urbanisme.

 

à un certain moment, il faut se rendre à l'évidence que le plan d'urbanisme n'est pas réaliste et ne fait que retarder, canceller, ruiner des projets intéressant!