{"id":5863,"date":"2014-10-06T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T19:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/montreal-gazette-social-housing-needed-former-blue-bonnets-site-groups-say-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T21:52:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T02:52:29","slug":"montreal-gazette-social-housing-needed-former-blue-bonnets-site-groups-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/montreal-gazette-social-housing-needed-former-blue-bonnets-site-groups-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Social housing needed at former Blue Bonnets site, groups say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-36zcvb-463b781bab97ded7a8e7d2b321b4499a\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-36zcvb-463b781bab97ded7a8e7d2b321b4499a{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-36zcvb-463b781bab97ded7a8e7d2b321b4499a .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-36zcvb-463b781bab97ded7a8e7d2b321b4499a .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-36zcvb-463b781bab97ded7a8e7d2b321b4499a av-special-heading-h5 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h5 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Montreal Gazette &#8211; October 6, 2014<\/h5><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>(en anglais)<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kja5s767-5898c624d7bb908bd2f0cc3f17f82874 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7150 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-1005-gazette-blue-bonnets2-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"Montreal Gazette - Social housing needed at former Blue Bonnets site, groups say\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-1005-gazette-blue-bonnets2-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-1005-gazette-blue-bonnets2-600x587.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-1005-gazette-blue-bonnets2-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-1005-gazette-blue-bonnets2-705x689.jpg 705w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-1005-gazette-blue-bonnets2-450x440.jpg 450w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-1005-gazette-blue-bonnets2.jpg 808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Every time Chanchal Patel strolls past the former Blue Bonnets racetrack, she hopes that one day she will be able to buy a house on the site.<\/p>\n<div id=\"page1\">\n<p>\u201cThere are so many people who need housing in this neighbourhood,\u201d Patel said on Monday during at news conference in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges. \u201cSometimes I dream of having a house there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more than 20 years, community groups in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges have been lobbying to have social housing built on the vast tract of land west of the Decarie Expressway. But community leaders say they\u2019re worried that the city of Montreal may be reneging on a plan to build residential housing on the site. The proposed development would be one of the largest residential development projects on the island of Montreal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6424\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6424\" class=\"wp-image-6424 size-portfolio\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-1005-gazette-blue-bonnets10267224-495x400.jpg\" alt=\"Site de l'ancien Hippodrome de Montr\u00e9al \/ Site of the former Blue Bonnets racetrack\" width=\"495\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-1005-gazette-blue-bonnets10267224-495x400.jpg 495w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-1005-gazette-blue-bonnets10267224-845x684.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoralty candidate, Richard Bergeron, says if he&rsquo;s elected the Blue Bonnets Raceway site would be turned into Montreal&rsquo;s first ever green neighborhood, in Montreal, on Monday, October 21, 2013. Blue Bonnets Raceway closed in 2009 after 137 years of operation. (Dave Sidaway \/ THE GAZETTE)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>La Corporation de d\u00e9veloppement communautaire de C\u00f4te-des-Neiges, which represents about 50 community groups, says they were alarmed to read a story in The Gazette last week that said the plan to build up to 5,000 housing units on the property has stalled. They\u2019re also concerned that an agreement for Quebec to cede ownership of the 43.5-hectare property to the city of Montreal was never signed and worry that the city may scrap a plan to build residential units in favour of commercial or industrial development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlue Bonnets must be used to respond to the housing needs in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges,\u201d said Sheetal Pathak of Project Genesis. \u201cIt must be residential development and changes in orientations cannot happen without public consultation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The community groups say that want assurances from Mayor Denis Coderre that the city is committed to building residential housing on the site. The group would like to see 2,500 social housing units built as part of the plan because of the lack of adequate housing in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges, said Jennifer Auchinleck, a community organizer with La\u00a0Corporation de d\u00e9veloppement communautaire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe need clarity terms of the agreement and a timetable, and we want assurances from the mayor and executive committee that the land will be used for residential development,\u201d Auchinleck said.<\/p>\n<p>City councillors and community groups who have worked for years on plans for the site believed the agreement had been signed and development was progressing, albeit behind schedule due to upheavals at Montreal city hall. Construction was supposed to start in 2017 and finish by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Marvin Rotrand, city councillor for Snowdon, said last week that civil servants at city hall have told him the project will be delayed for years and he fears that there is a movement away from residential construction without any public consultation.<\/p>\n<p>But Coderre said on Monday that the he\u2019s committed to developing Blue Bonnets and said there will be mixed housing built on the site. He said he plans to discuss the topic with provincial ministers in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Katherine Wilton<\/strong>, Montreal<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>\u00a9 Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-1006-The-Gazette-Social-housing-needed-at-former-Blue-Bonnets-site-groups-say.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal Gazette &#8211; October 6, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,59,280],"tags":[161,249,295],"class_list":["post-5863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dans-les-medias","category-nouvelles","category-page-dacceuil","tag-droit-au-logement","tag-logements-sociaux-sur-blue-bonnets","tag-nouveaux-logements-sociaux"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 19:48:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5863"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16976,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions\/16976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}