I’m at the PPU Centre-Ville de Brossard, I’ll update this post as I get more information.
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The map shared on the document is essentially a proposal made by an artist/planner to show what it could be, not what it will be exactly
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You can see the area Prével has around Station Panama, this is essentially finalized and will be what we will see made.
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The area around Champlain Mall is what the city is proposing to Cominar, as Cominar was the one who started this whole project. The city hired an urban planning company to propose putting the larger buildings over the mall instead of in the parking lots initially, with shorter buildings around the mall where is currently parking at some point. Essentially, Cominar made a proposal, the city was like “wow this does not make Brossard look good,” so they paused all developments, released this plan and now developers could follow it
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The main promenade will be pedestrian and bike only. For bikes, they’re prioritizing it being used by commuters too, so what I hope that means is separation (unlike when Mont-Royal is pedestrianized for example)
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Along Taschereau, they’re proposing a tramway. I told them how much funding this would need, and they agree and said how it would take 10+ years for this to go forward. I proposed to them a BRT/SRB to be made in a way that could be retrofitted with trams in the future
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I can’t say too much, but the developer over the former Loblaws is pushing for a slightly higher density that the city is proposing, following a similar vision to the city but trying to get a bit more height (right now on Pelletier the regulations is only 2 floors which they find way too low and I have to agree) CORRECTION: The mayor of Brossard told me they AREN’T pushing for height, and instead pushing for width, they want almost all their land for buildings, when regulations are requiring public space that’s connected. I told the developer they should talk with Prével who works well with integration of buildings (even the mayor agreed, she was saying they have great proposals).
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Unrelated to the PPU specifically, boulevard de Rome is going to be torn up and completely redone sometime soon. The city plans to completely redesign it to no longer be a large 6 lane boulevard, and instead human scale and even possibly roundabouts… to be continued
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I got to talk with the infamous Claudio Benedetti, he seemed very bothered by the project, saying how they’re towers that will block views (of what, I’m not sure), and how security around Station Panama should be talked about more. Every other politician I talked to refused to talk to him, but told me how horrible and dated his views are. If I were to give my personal opinion, the he spoke sounded a little bit insane. He used a lot of strong language to push threat mongering ideas which we know Journal de Montreal pushed (with their articles against the PPU and higher density). To go with this, he happens to live right near the REM entrance (I’m not sure why he showed me his home but okay), so we can see where his motives are (quite NIMBY based).
That’s all for now!