CSRG on the cover of the Montreal Mirror. CSRG sur la page 1 du hébdomadaire Mirror.
Un autre lettre ouverte donnant l’appui pour un processus démocratique, signé par Le Centre d’écologie urbaine de Montréal, le Conseil régional de l’environnement de Montréal, D’abord Solidaires, le Groupe de travail sur la démocratie municipale et la citoyenneté, la Réseau national sur la démocratie municipale (RNDM) et la Table régionale des organismes volontaire d’éducation populaire (TROVEP) de Montréal.
Deux articles dans La Presse sur la controversie de la salle des spéctacles proposée pour Projet Griffintown.
Gazette editorial: Tremblay administration is doing an end-run on Griffintown: Instead of in-depth hearings, the city is letting the borough conduct them.
The local Nuns’ Island magazine covers the way the project will likely have a big impact on Verdun, but since Verdun isn’t technically part of the Sud-Ouest borough, they have no voice in the current process.
A Léger Marketing poll indicates 47% of Montrealers are “for” Projet Griffintown, 17% are against it, and 36% are either undecided or don’t know about the project. Devimco is spinning this as a “win,” but this reading of the numbers obliterates the nuances of people who are for redevelopment, but not in the monopolistic fashion, nor in the scale or form which Devimco and the current PPU are proposing. It also showcases the fact that something with a city-wide impact is slipping by citizens unnoticed.
A resident of the Lowney Lofts has created a panoramic photo-cartography of Griffintown to show people the current state and scale of the neighborhood.
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