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By Robert Frank<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The Suburban has learned that the province turned down Beaconsfield\u2019s request to protect private land in Angell Woods from development under Quebec\u2019s Sustainable Forest Development Act (SFDA), soon after the city sent it\u2019s request to Quebec City. <\/p>\n

\u201cOn April 28, Beaconsfield requested, via Resolution 2014-04-699, that the Quebec Natural Resources Ministry recognize a portion of Angell Woods as an exceptional forest ecosystem (EFE),\u201d said assistant deputy minister L\u00e9opold Gaudreau in a July 18 letter to Diana Shahmoon, president of Seda Holdings\u2014one of two firms that own most of the private land in Angell Woods.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, under SFDA, EFEs are only recognized if they are located on lands in the domain of the State, in other words, on public lands,\u201d Gaudreau continued. \u201cThe legal provisions do not apply to private lands.\u201d <\/p>\n

According to Mayor Georges Bourelle, the city knew SFDA was limited to public land when it passed its resolution. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe recognized that it had never before been authorized on private land but we tried it anyway,\u201d he told The Suburban.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had hoped that maybe the [provincial] government would consider it, even though it was on private land,\u201d he said in an interview, \u201cbut we were aware when we made the request that it had never been done on private land before, so it is not surprising that [the Quebec government] said what it said.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBasically we will see, now that the [Montreal agglomeration\u2019s new] urban plan is being put together, what the next step will be,\u201d Mayor Bourelle added. \u201cWe will wait for that.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what provisions of the urban plan would affect Angell Woods,\u201d he concluded. \u201cWe do know that it was identified as a forest of metropolitan interest within the Montreal metropolitan council for a long time. It goes way back.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe city\u2019s behavior is incoherent,\u201d Shahmoon said in an interview. \u201cIt makes a big deal about passing resolutions that it knows will not go anywhere. Then, when they go nowhere, it doesn\u2019t inform the public. At the same time, they keep telling us that they want to negotiate with us [to purchase the land]\u2014but no one has contacted us.\u201d <\/p>\n

SFDA, which came into force April 1, 2013, was Quebec\u2019s effort to promote sustainable development by the province\u2019s massive forestry industry, which has long harvested timber to turn into lumber for construction and pulp for Quebec\u2019s paper industry. <\/p>\n

Before last year\u2019s municipal election, the previous city council proposed a plan that would have preserved at least 80 per cent of Angell Woods in perpetuity, while permitting a small-footprint, transit-oriented residential development beside the Woodland commuter train station. <\/p>\n

The Montreal agglomeration supports transit-oriented development as an environment-friendly form of urban planning. <\/p>\n

During the election campaign, Mayor Bourelle endorsed his predecessor\u2019s plan. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would favor a partial maximum two-storey residential development of Angell Woods at the south end with proper by-law controls and negotiations with the private landowners that will ensure that 80 per cent of the Woods is kept as a preserve, as long as a traffic solution for Elm and Woodland crossing is conceived and\/or negotiated and implemented by council before any development takes place,\u201d Mayor Bourelle wrote in a pre-election online comment, Sept. 11, 2013.
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