Interested in having a say about real estate development over the next twenty years in the City of Montreal?
The office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) begins a full-scale consultation into Montreal’s Development Plan next week.
Everything will be posted to the OCPM website (http://www.ocpm.qc.ca/) as hearings proceed. For the first time, the site will also distribute open data, including a map that you can download into Google Earth and then use it to emphasize your own presentation.
“Our consultations always have two parts,” says Gilles Vézina, a research and documentation agent from the OCPM. “We begin with information meetings to inform people about the consultation. Then, we have a second part to hear their comments and receive memorandums.”
The information sessions take place during the first week of June at Centre Mont Royal.
Citizens will then have until August 28 to submit their comments and/or memorandums.
Comments and memorandum hearings will take place at the OCPM offices on the 14th floor at 1550, Metcalfe, beginning at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 4 and continuing for as many sessions as will be required.
The whole process gets underway on Monday, June 3 at Centre Mont-Royal, 2200, rue Mansfield from 7 until 10 p.m., when the city of Montreal will describe the Montreal Development Plan. No registration is required for citizens to attend that evening.
Citizens do have to register for the forums that will take place on Tuesday and two Wednesdays to follow. All of them happen at Centre Mont-Royal at 2200, rue Mansfield.
On Tuesday, June 4, beginning at 9 a.m., Montreal leadership will be discussed in a public forum. At 1:30 p.m., a discussion about the economy of Montreal occurs.
On Wednesday, June 5, two sessions are planned: public transportation in compact cities at 9 a.m., and heritage and cultural protection at 1:30.
The last two spring forums take place on Wednesday, June 12: natural heritage protection at 1:30 p.m. and climate change adaptation at 7 p.m.
Consultation hearings will occur on September 4 at 7 p.m. in the OCPM offices at 1550, rue Metcalfe, 14th floor.
