{"id":2031,"date":"2013-05-31T09:24:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2013-05-31T09:27:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:27:27","slug":"montreals-development-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/montreals-development-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultations into Montreal\u2019s Development Plan Begin June 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Interested in having a say about real estate development over the next twenty years in the City of Montreal? <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2032\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2032\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2032\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/montreals-development-plan\/municipalities1600small\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg?fit=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,173\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"municipalities1600small\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;This is how Montreal was divided municipally in 1600.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg?fit=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2032\" alt=\"Montreal1600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg?resize=300%2C173\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg?resize=150%2C86&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/municipalities1600small.jpg?resize=96%2C55&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is how Montreal was divided municipally in 1600.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <i>office de consultation publique de Montr\u00e9al<\/i> (OCPM) begins a full-scale consultation into Montreal\u2019s Development Plan next week.<\/p>\n<p>Everything will be posted to the OCPM website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocpm.qc.ca\/\">http:\/\/www.ocpm.qc.ca\/<\/a>) 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur consultations always have two parts,\u201d says Gilles V\u00e9zina, a research and documentation agent from the OCPM. \u201cWe begin with information meetings to inform people about the consultation. Then, we have a second part to hear their comments and receive memorandums.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The information sessions take place during the first week of June at Centre Mont Royal.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens will then have until August 28 to submit their comments and\/or memorandums.<\/p>\n<p>Comments and memorandum hearings will take place at the OCPM offices on the 14<sup>th<\/sup> floor at 1550, Metcalfe, beginning at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 4 and continuing for as many sessions as will be required.<\/p>\n<p>The whole process gets underway on Monday, June 3 at Centre Mont-Royal, 2200, rue Mansfield\u00a0from 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Consultation hearings will occur on September 4 at 7 p.m. in the OCPM offices at 1550, rue Metcalfe, 14<sup>th<\/sup> floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Montr\u00e9al (OCPM) begins a full-scale consultation into Montreal\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-report","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-wL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16599,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/wanklyn\/","url_meta":{"origin":2031,"position":0},"title":"Wanklyn consultation now underway","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"September 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This month, Montreal\u2019s public consultation office (Office de consultation publique de Montreal\u00a0 or OCPM) begins holding hearings into the residential project to be constructed on a 47,139-square-metre triangular property between Cherry Lane, Jean-Milot, Wanklyn and Highway 138 in LaSalle. 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