{"id":10,"date":"2015-05-27T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/27\/urban-development-hearings-start-monday\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T21:35:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T21:35:40","slug":"urban-development-hearings-start-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/27\/urban-development-hearings-start-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban development hearings start Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Robert Frank<\/b><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/>\n<\/b>Laval plans to rewrite the rules that run the city by the end of next year.<\/div>\n<div>\nMayor Marc Demers announced last week that the city will draft a new urban development plan. The plan will spell out what can be built on \u00cele J\u00e9sus, where it can be built and how it is to be constructed.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cLaval hasn\u2019t updated its urban development plan since 1994,\u201d executive committee vice-chairman David de Cotis said in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s high time that we bring Laval into the 21st century.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\nThe city will embark on a round of public consultations, starting Monday evening, June 1, to give citizens their say on shaping the city\u2019s master-plan.<\/div>\n<div>\n\u201cThis exercise will enable us to confirm and extend protected zones, to talk about how to organize downtown, to map out public transit, to decide where to locate public buildings, to identify new residential districts and to lay out new commercial and industrial zones,\u201d\u00a0Demers said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Planes, trains and automobiles<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\nThe outcome will be far-ranging. Montreal completed a similar two-year exercise in April. It imposed a controversial Lac M\u00e9gantic law, which restricts the use of buildings within 300 metres of some railway and highway infrastructure.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The rules were meant to limit the impact of a similar conflagration, but could dramatically affect the value of properties in those zones. Certain land on the approaches to Dorval airport were also hit with similar restrictions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Demers will chair a five-person panel that will oversee formulation of the urban development plan. The other members are city councillors Aline Dib, Virginie Dufour, Jocelyne-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gauthier and Vasilios Karidogiannis.<\/div>\n<div>\nLaval businesses and developers will get the last word at the final hearing, June 16, before the panel begins its deliberations. They plan to table a first draft of the new urban development plan this fall, followed by a second round of public hearings in November.<\/div>\n<div>\nA second draft is slated for early 2016, followed by a final round of public consultations before city council adopts the plan and it becomes law in December 2016.<\/div>\n<div>\nOpposition leaders like\u00a0Jean-Claude Gob\u00e9 of the\u00a0Action Laval municipal party expressed dismay that the committee that will decide how to reshape Laval only includes elected members of Mayor Demers\u2019 Mouvement lavallois party.<\/div>\n<div>\n\u201cOpposition councillors can still contribute,\u201d de Cotis told <i>The Suburban. <\/i>\u201cWe\u2019re adopting a positive approach and are open to all recommendations, as we did when we worked together with opposition councillors to revamp the rules for city council meetings, earlier this year.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\n\u201cTheir input will be as valuable as mine,\u201d added former Action Laval Councillor Paolo Galati, who defected to <i>Mouvement lavallois<\/i> following a disagreement over his former party\u2019s political expenses last year. \u201cThe committee will look at their suggestions.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\nMore information is available on the city\u2019s French-only website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.repensonslaval.ca\/\">www.repensonslaval.ca<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-sh-Kj4K_fFA\/VGzagi3ZlNI\/AAAAAAAAB-A\/LOBzV_k8qyI\/s1600\/140808%2BDavid%2Bde%2BCotis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/140808-David-de-Cotis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>&#8220;Time to bring Laval into the 21st century,&#8221; said David de Cotis.<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Frank www.thesuburban.com Laval plans to rewrite the rules that run the city by the end of next year. 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