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Rosemary Lafrenière would be a millionaire if the city of Montreal applied its new housing development bylaw to buy her acre of land.
Instead, the city has tried to get her parcels in a Pointe-aux-Trembles field for free.
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The âBylaw for a Diverse Metropolis,â which went into effect on April 1, is intended to promote the construction of social, affordable and family housing by requiring new residential development projects contain 20 per cent of each, depending on size and location. But a lesser-known part of the so-called â20-20-20â bylaw stipulates the city will buy vacant land from developers anywhere on the island to build social housing. It even sets the prices the city will pay â ranging from $552 per square metre for land downtown and in Old Montreal to $2
Family adds its voice to others denouncing Montreal s ruthless tactics to acquire their land for nothing.
Author of the article: Linda Gyulai • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: May 10, 2021 • 5 days ago • 5 minute read • Françoise Allard, pictured, owned two parcels of land in Pointe-aux-Trembles that the city tried to acquire from her for free. Her son, Guy Martel, right, and grandson, Bruno Martel, managed to get the city to pay her but at a price they say is peanuts. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
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The city of Montreal has perpetrated a “monumental scam” to grab plots of land belonging to several individuals in a vacant field in Pointe-aux-Trembles that happens to sit next to the future REM de l’Est, says the grandson of one of them.
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Montreal city hall opposition wants justice for owners who lost land Gilles Labrèche and Christos Goulakos had their parcels of land in Pointe-aux-Trembles taken away by the city behind their backs.
Author of the article: Linda Gyulai • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Dec 18, 2020 • December 18, 2020 • 2 minute read • The city of Montreal mailed a property tax bill to Gilles Labrèche last month, even though it took away his parcel of land in a field in Pointe-aux-Trembles without his knowledge and without compensating him in 2017. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
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The opposition at Montreal city hall is calling for justice for Gilles Labrèche and Christos Goulakos, two property owners who had their parcels of land taken away by the city behind their backs.