La Ville de Westmount élabore actuellement un programme particulier d’urbanisme pour le secteur sud-est de la ville
Le secteur ciblé est délimité au nord par la rue Sherbrooke, à l’est par l’avenue Atwater, au sud par le boulevard Dorchester et à l’ouest par l’avenue Wood. Elle comprend également la zone comprise entre la rue Sainte-Catherine et le boulevard Dorchester, depuis leur jonction à l’ouest, jusqu’à l’avenue Wood à l’est.
Le PPU préliminaire a été préparé par la firme Lemay
Plans d'ensemble préliminaires
- Place Gladstone
- Esplanade Dorchester et reconfiguration de la chaussée
- Parc Dorchester-Clarke
- Nouvelle entrée de Westmount etreconfiguration de Sainte-Catherine
- Axe paysager partagé
- Reconfiguration du boul. De Maisonneuve
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Dans la Gazette
Atwater Library has weathered a lot of changes to the streetscape around it over the last century, but the institution’s directors say their heritage building will be threatened if Westmount accepts a proposal to permit construction of a 25-storey tower next door to it.
“It is the little library scared of the behemoth,” Bruce Bolton, who presides over the board of directors, said of seeing the proposal for the 25-storey tower in a document rendered public on Westmount’s website several days ago.
The document was produced by the architecture firm Lemay, which was hired by Westmount to accompany it in drafting a new urban plan for the southeast sector of the municipality bordering downtown Montreal.
https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article564221.html
Lettre d’opinion dans La Gazette
Damage from poor planning can affect a neighbourhood for generations. The southeast sector of Westmount is a case in point. In 1960, Westmount city council embarked on a disastrous rethink of the area bounded by Clarke Ave., Ste-Catherine St., Atwater Ave. and the railway tracks. As a start, from Ste-Catherine to Dorchester Blvd., city blocks of perfectly viable houses were reduced to rubble. The street pattern was interrupted, creating dead-ends and traffic arteries.
We can only be grateful that citizen action halted this ill-conceived renewal scheme. Otherwise, the parking lots that exist along and north of Dorchester would have extended down to the railway tracks and wiped out all the small-scale housing that defines the north-south streets from Clandeboye to Hallowell Aves.
Now, the architecture firm Lemay has produced a plan that resuscitates the intentions of the 1960s plan, including the construction of highrise towers, either seemingly plunked down arbitrarily, or lining Ste-Catherine.
https://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/op-eds/article617830.html
Westmount Mayor Christina Smith hopes residents will take an open-minded look at a proposal to promote the redevelopment of part of the city’s southeast sector, which includes an increase in height allowances north of Dorchester Blvd. and several highrises along Ste-Catherine St.
Smith said she expects lively debates on the proposal over the coming months, including at Monday’s city council meeting.
The controversial proposal was produced by the architecture firm Lemay, which Westmount commissioned to help draft a new, targeted urban plan for its southeast sector, just west of downtown Montreal. The proposal has been criticized by some urban development experts as “a wholesale renunciation of Westmount’s traditional low-rise, dense urban environment.”
Critics have also suggested the plan ignores heritage buildings in the area, such as the Atwater Library, which would be dwarfed by a 25-storey tower at Ste-Catherine and Atwater, and that it promotes a “generic” brand of development.
Westmount mayor hopes allowing highrises will spur development : https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article669322.html
The Mayor is naive or confused, West Mount residents are not open to any development. This plan is dead on arrival, just like the residential part of Royal Mount or pretty much anything in the West Island near REM stations.
Ça y est, encore une utilisation des erreurs des années 60 pour bloquer le développement, je pense qu’à un moment faudra réaliser qu’on peut pas négocier avec ces gens-là. Ils vont jamais être content, alors autant y aller avec quelques consultations avec des citoyens de bonne foie et commencer le projet.
C’est normal d’avoir peur, mais à un moment certaines personnes ne pourront jamais être totalement rassurés.
