Développement d’un parc agricole métropolitain en partenariat avec l’Union des producteurs agricoles du Québec (UPA), la Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) et CDPQ Infra. Par la création d’une fiducie foncière agricole, le parc permettra de valoriser les activités et le territoire agricole dans la la région métropolitaine et contribuera à limiter l’étalement urbain autour de la station terminale Brossard du Réseau électrique métropolitain (REM).
Is it a good idea to put a park that large that close to a transit station? Seems to me we should be maxing out the amount of housing in the immediate vicinity of the station, and putting parks slightly further away.
There can’t be any housing on the east end of the A30 highway, its the beginning of the ‘green belt’ of Montreal. The REM terminal station was an exception.
The next REM station not far is the one that is targeted has a proper TOD to maximise housing, lots of room for redevelopment around it escentialy the car-centric 10-30.
Technically montreal has no real greenbelt, just agricultural protection and the CCM rules on forests and swamps where they apply. Ex:
Longueuil is building east of the 30 because it’s inside their urban perimeter. Brossard isn’t because the 30 is the limit of the urban perimeter.
So if a Brossard mayor wanted too, and got approval from the province if necessary, they could expand the urban perimeter east of the 30. The ontario greenbelt is controlled by the province, not the cities, so cities actually can’t expand on the greenbelt unless the province removes land from the greenbelt. The trame bleue verte by the CMM is an initiative, not a legally binding contract, so cities can agree or disagree to follow their recommendations, unlike the GTA greenbelt which is legally binding.
New housing is definitely preferable around most stations, but not necessarily around all of them. In fact, some stations like terminal stations at the edge of urban areas (like Brossard station), often have low value for residential purposes, and it can even be counterproductive to develop them that way.
There’s a couple of issues to keep in mind here. Being out of the centre leads to sub-optimal accessibility for what would require transit-oriented housing. The relative location of those neighbourhoods to the rest of the city enforces monocentric travel patterns, limiting the viability of attractiveness of diverse transit options for residents, despite the proximity to transit. Transit adjacent scattered intensity looks good on paper, allows everyone to tap themselves on the back for reaching their density targets, but doesn’t do much in terms of car independence and congestion relief.
There’s also the issue of sprawl, and the needless pressure it causes to green spaces, wildlife and ecosystems, but also importantly the pressure it causes to infrastructure, services, and municipal finances. Supporting the latter at the edge of urban areas is substantially more challenging logistically, and less viable economically.
A terminal stations at the edge of an agglomeration works better as a park-and-ride and catchment for regional and intercity feeder services. Most developments on those sort of stations will have the adverse impacts mentioned above and more. If there’s ever any development on those sort of station, it’s better to favour projects aligned with park-and-rides and regional catchment functions; projects that take into account the rest of the network and the city, and region wide travel patterns. Ideally such projects should not bring too much crowding for peak direction, while increasing conter-flow ridership.
I hate this sort of development so much it looks so out of place. Now I have the YIMBY urge to build up everything along Cousineau all the way to Acadia River and fuse Chambly and the northern part of Carignan to Longueuil.
Génial ! Mais j’ai une sous-question, es-ce que ce sera la première en Amérique du Nord ?
it looks so out of place. Now I have the YIMBY urge to build up everything along Cousineau all the way to Acadia River and fuse Chambly and the northern part of Carignan to Longueuil.