Heritage Montreal’s Dinu Bumbaru says institutional amnesia led to the city’s U-turn on the Redpath mansion issue. People forget from one generation to the next the reasons for certain guidelines, although basics like “you can’t block sight lines to Mount Royal” ought to be engraved in stone someplace.
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The U.S. is talking big plans for high-speed rail and Montreal’s apparently on the board as part of a route with New York and Boston, but – as mentioned before in this blog – a better rail link to New York is something that gets dusted off every few years and talked about for awhile and then is let drop again. It alternates with the notion of upgrading the Windsor-Quebec corridor to high-speed rail, which will be dusted off next for its moment in the sun, no doubt.
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CTV item on more snow contains possibly useful information about snow parking and towing of vehicles.
Also, some folks are annoyed about snow clearance warnings followed by no snow clearance.
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mdblog
Not to mention that by law the city has until 1600 to put the no parking signs up for overnight snow clearing. 3 hours is not enough warning for people who own a car but use public transport to get to work. Ideally the signs should go up no later than 0700 to give people enough time.
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The city’s tourism czar has high hopes for the return of American tourists this year.
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Two young men from Montreal are being held in the Dominican Republic after the death of another young man from Ontario. It could take some time for their case to be heard.
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The Plateau has given its nod to the enlargement of a Hutchison Street synagogue, one of several in the area initially established illegally in residential space, although the original project has been scaled down. Some residents in the area have been fighting the existence of these side street synagogues for years.
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The AMT is going to take over the old CN yards and invest in turning them into a shop for commuter train maintenance.
Singlestar 21:05 on 2011/02/08 Permalink
“ought to be engraved in stone someplace” – It used to be the first chapter of the City’s Urban Plan!
Singlestar 21:22 on 2011/02/08 Permalink
Urban planning by-law – U-!:
RÈGLEMENTS REFONDUS DE LA VILLE DE MONTRÉAL
16 octobre 1998 U-1 / 1-13 (and still in force – this taken today off the City’s web page)
34. En plus des critères énoncés à l’article 29 du Règlement sur la procédure d’approbation
de projets de construction, de modification ou d’occupation et sur la Commission
Jacques-Viger (chapitre P-7), un projet comportant une surhauteur doit respecter les critères
suivants :
1º le projet doit tendre à maintenir les corridors visuels entre le mont Royal et le fleuve,
tels que montrés à la figure suivante :
2º le projet doit tendre à maintenir les grandes perspectives vers le mont Royal et vers le
fleuve, telles que montrées aux figures suivantes :
3º le projet doit tendre à s’insérer dans la silhouette du centre-ville, telle que montrée aux
figures suivantes :
Kate 08:56 on 2011/02/09 Permalink
Thanks for the research, Singlestar!