dwazou@lemm.ee to Canada@lemmy.ca · edit-27 days agoMontreal Mall with giant parking lot to be replaced by gardens and condos. Some neighborhood residents are unhappy. They say they don't want tall condos near their single-family homes. www.lapresse.caexternal-linkmessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1104arrow-down1external-linkMontreal Mall with giant parking lot to be replaced by gardens and condos. Some neighborhood residents are unhappy. They say they don't want tall condos near their single-family homes. www.lapresse.cadwazou@lemm.ee to Canada@lemmy.ca · edit-27 days agomessage-square33linkfedilinkfile-text
What it currently looks like: https://costar.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7706ba2/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5000x3331+0+0/resize/2100x1399!/quality/100/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcostar-brightspot.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2F7f%2F04%2Feed9a1d24574ae823ff092216d18%2Faerial-2025-04-07t113800.729.jpg
minus-squareCroquette@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·6 days agoWas there a study made on the light impact on the surronding neighborhood? If some people are losing the sunlight for all the day because of a 25 story building, that is a valid objection. Otherwise, that is a great project that will give some life back to that neighborhood.
minus-squareNik282000@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9·6 days agoIt’s on the north side of the houses and will between the neighbourhood and a highway. If anything it will be quieter after the towers go in.
minus-squareCroquette@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 days agoMakes sense, I didn’t think about the position of Place Versailles next to the highway and the industrial/commercial neighborhood right next to it up north. Then it feels like straight NIMBYism.
Was there a study made on the light impact on the surronding neighborhood?
If some people are losing the sunlight for all the day because of a 25 story building, that is a valid objection.
Otherwise, that is a great project that will give some life back to that neighborhood.
It’s on the north side of the houses and will between the neighbourhood and a highway. If anything it will be quieter after the towers go in.
Makes sense, I didn’t think about the position of Place Versailles next to the highway and the industrial/commercial neighborhood right next to it up north.
Then it feels like straight NIMBYism.