Etiket: sprawl
Budget Plante: a catalyst for urban sprawl
There City of Montreal has therefore revealed its budget leading to an average increase of 4.9% in municipal tax bills. It is true that everything costs more and cities are…
The aces of info | Apologies from the Pope, urban sprawl and plastic bottles
Every Sunday, The Press broadcasts the content of Les As de l’info, a youth digital platform entirely devoted to daily news. Posted at 7:00 a.m. Mia Gagne Vincent Intern, The…
The challenge of reducing urban sprawl
Are you looking for new objectives for 2023 in the Quebec region? Why not reduce urban sprawl. With highways in all directions, limiting urban dispersion is a real challenge for…
“Green belts” to curb urban sprawl
(Montreal) Researchers at Concordia University say they have identified an “almost always effective” way to curb urban sprawl, especially in big cities. Posted at 11:50 a.m. Elo Gauthier Lamothe The…
A water office and tax reform to curb sprawl
The suburbs and the countryside have become the new El Dorado for a growing number of residents of large centres. This stimulates urban sprawl that threatens natural environments, agricultural land…
Densify to stop urban sprawl? | The Press
For a long time, institutions have insisted on the fact that urban sprawl increases the need for public infrastructure and makes households dependent on several cars. In addition, politicians or…
Ontario is Losing Farmland at a Rapid Rate to Urban Sprawl
The Ontario Federation of Agriculture says the province is facing increased farmland loss as urban sprawl swallows up areas previously used for production. Data from the 2021 Census of Agriculture…
[Opinion] The challenge of urban sprawl
The responsibility incumbent on the municipal level in the fight against climate change is indisputable today. It now belongs to a younger generation of elected municipal officials, younger, greener and…
François Legault criticized urban sprawl, like Catherine Dorion, plead the oppositions
Rereading François Legault’s book published in 2013, his vision of land use planning was much closer to that of “Catherine Dorion” and much less “populist”, argue the opposition. • Read…
Urban sprawl: a “dangerous populist” discourse
The mayor of Quebec has set the table on the demands of municipalities to curb urban sprawl by affirming that the government has a “dangerous populist” discourse and uses “false”…
Marchand defends the CAQ on the subject of urban sprawl
“Populists”, “misleading”, “dangerous”: the mayor of Quebec has castigated the comments made by the CAQ which normalize urban sprawl and which summarize urban densification as a fashion. The climate emergency,…
Urban sprawl | Quebec must change its “misleading” speech, according to Bruno Marchand
(Quebec) The Legault government must change its “misleading”, “populist” and “dangerous” discourse on the issue of the fight against urban sprawl and densification, asks the mayor of Quebec Bruno Marchand,…
A superministry of the Territory to fight against sprawl?
This is the solution proposed by the lobby of property developers Posted at 5:00 a.m. Charles Lecavalier The Press (Quebec) The Urban Development Institute of Quebec (IDU), the lobby of…
Quebec called to curb the sprawl of cities and roads
If the Legault government finds it difficult to curb urban sprawl, its main committee responsible for advising it on environmental matters believes that it has no choice but to do…
Real estate: in Périgueux, an innovative way to fight against urban sprawl
Published on 04/19/2022 22:42 France 3 Article written by I.Sabourault, S.Lerch, M.Gualandi, L.Michel, Drone Images: click&take off – France 3 France Televisions The climate law requires municipalities to fight against…
Third Québec-Lévis link | Two tunnels, 6.5 billion and urban sprawl
(Quebec) The new third link, whose budget is 6.5 billion, will allow the towns located east of Lévis to develop and attract residents, says the Legault government. This urban sprawl…
The third link, a brake on urban sprawl, says Environment Minister Benoit Charette
A tunnel between downtown Quebec and Lévis is “a great way” to counter urban sprawl, said Environment Minister Benoît Charette on Monday during a visit to the national capital. The…
STM crisis, urban sprawl and governance crisis
The present pandemic and the resignation of Dr Horacio Arruda, national director of public health, highlighted the serious shortcomings of the Quebec health system. The crisis at the Société de…
Urban sprawl, at what cost?
Nine months before the elections, a coalition of organizations will hold a Summit to urge the government to strengthen its future policy on land use planning and to fight against…
In Saint-Brieuc, wasteland is being rehabilitated to curb urban sprawl
The project is named Totem of innovation. The old building of the Family Allowance Fund (Caf), fallow for 7 years, must become a place to promote synergy between businesses. “We…