The future eco-district of Lachine-Est, planned on former industrial land along the Lachine Canal, should include 7,800 housing units in buildings of 4 to 15 floors.
This was announced on Tuesday by two elected officials from the Plante administration, on Tuesday, stressing the importance of installing a tram there.
“We are talking here about a real eco-district that will be able to accommodate 16,000 people,” assured Robert Beaudry, the elected official responsible for urban planning on the Montreal executive committee. “It’s going to be a neighborhood complete with grocery store, school, community center, sports center. The project would include 1,200 social housing units and at least 620 affordable housing units.
Mr. Beaudry will table this week the urban plan for this sector of Lachine, promised for years to development. The presence of a structuring mode of transport in the area is “essential”, but it is the Regional Metropolitan Transport Authority (ARTM) which will decide its exact nature, indicated the elected official.
“This project is impossible to do without a structural link,” added Mayor Vodanovic. “It’s impossible to do without, for example, a tram. Because the density that we need to do here for it to be profitable for developers, with decontamination, is a high density. »
The territory to be developed represents “60 hectares of burnt soil, in perdition”, she described. She now wants to build an “ideal neighborhood” there.
The opposition at City Hall, however, is unconvinced about the execution of the plan.
“We welcome the creation of a new district which would make it possible to offer thousands of new dwellings,” said elected official Julien Hénault-Ratelle, via press release. He “concerns, however, that the investments are not there. The ideas are good on paper, but the administration often struggles to implement them. »