Questions surrounding growth have been a central focus in a number of neighbourhoods across the Montreal space.
That debate might have been the deciding think about two municipal elections on the island, the place new mayors had been elected for the City of Mont Royal (TMR) and Hampstead.
Businessman Peter Malouf was elected mayor in TMR, beating rival Michelle Setlakwe.
Malouf ran on a marketing campaign pushing for change. Mayoral candidate Philippe Roy had been in workplace since 2010.
“I listened to so many various residents with completely different wants and completely different issues that haven’t been listened to essentially over the previous 12 years,” he advised World Information.
Two points dominated discuss on the streets of TRM through the marketing campaign.
One plan entails elevated densification round Rockland procuring centre with extra condominium buildings and condos. There’s additionally the Royalmount industrial undertaking which requires the including of a residential element in an space zoned for industrial and industrial.
Malouf argues each tasks would trigger site visitors and congestion nightmares within the backyard metropolis.
“The great thing about our city, it’s an oasis surrounded by a concrete jungle in Montreal,” he mentioned.
It’s one thing residents like Jean Moutran say they worth.
“While you stay in TMR you wish to stay in a quiet, peaceable place,” he careworn.
In Hampstead, one other backyard city, problems with growth and densification additionally took centre stage.
Political newcomer Jeremy Levi turfed four-term mayor William Steingberg, taking 55 % of the vote. Levi believes he received was as a result of the incumbent was pushing for 10-storey condominium buildings on Côte-Saint-Luc Highway.
“I’m very assured that’s what mainly determined the election,” he mentioned.
Levi has dominated out any plans for 10-storey residences on the road Steninberg’s plan would have meant demolishing current moderate-income residences.
With Levi’s win, some tenants say they really feel now their voices might be heard.
“It’s an ethical obligation for a metropolis to have some inexpensive housing,” Côte-Saint-Luc Highway tenant Patrick Demers
Voters in each cities now wait to see how these new administrations resolve to proceed with the event tasks in query.
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