The Metropolitan Community of Montreal (CMM) announced on Tuesday the entry into force of the interim control regulation (RCI) aimed at promoting “the reconversion and renaturalization” of green spaces.
Adopted on June 16, the RCI includes six golf courses where the possibility of real estate development will henceforth be limited.
The Beloeil, Candiac and Mascouche golf clubs, the Chambly municipal golf course, the former Rosemère golf course and the Le Boisé golf club in Terrebonne are covered by this by-law.
In addition to the 284 hectares located on the urban perimeter, the CMM plans, in a second phase, to add other sectors to increase the surface area of green spaces in Greater Montreal to meet the needs in terms of climate change and land use planning. .
The CMM is calling on the next government, which will be elected on October 3, for $100 million to set up a program to acquire spaces with potential for conversion into green space or a natural environment in a highly urbanized metropolitan region.
“By adopting this RCI and the one on natural environments that came into effect in June, the municipalities of the CMM have demonstrated their willingness and their ability to act quickly to strengthen the resilience of Greater Montreal,” said Valérie Plante, mayor of Montreal and president of the MWC.
“The situation, just as much as the population, requires strong gestures like these two historic regulations which constitute fundamental elements of the ecological transition that we must lead on a metropolitan scale and which will allow us to reach, or even exceed, our objective of protecting 17% of the territory,” added Ms. Plante.