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Welcome to a Public Information Meeting
GRIFFINTOWN ENDANGERED

Thursday, April 24, 2008, at 7:00 p.m.

St. James United Church
1440 Ste Alexandre (parking lot entrance) above Ste. Catherine West. (Metro:Place des Arts, or bus 15 or 80)

Voluntary donation at the door

Information: 514-844-4076

Organized by: The Montreal Citizen Forum

www.montrealcitizenforum.org

A public interest association with the Social Justice Committee of Montreal , the School of Community Studies and Public Affairs of Concordia University, the Council of Canadians ( Montreal ) and others

WHO DECIDES THE FUTURE OF MONTREAL ?

IS YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD NEXT?

Griffintown, a historic neighbourhood settled by mostly Irish immigrants in the early nineteenth century, is about to change into a megaproject with giant highrises, big-box stores and streets geared to cars instead of people.

Mayor Tremblay violated the spirit of his own past recommendations for consultation on urban development.

Citizens were not allowed to publicly question submissions.

The city's Office de consultation publique was kept out of the process.

The concerns of the Southwest borough's own urban planning service were ignored.

The Montreal Citizen Forum calls for real dialogue over the way our communities are developed.

In Griffintown, we want a people-friendly neighbourhood with mixed- use housing, small streets, locally-owned shops and a human scale. People fought to preserve the integrity of the Milton-Parc area and won!

WE MUST NOT ALLOW GRIFFINTOWN TO BECOME

A MODEL FOR DEVELOPER-DRVEN URBANISM.

SPEAKERS

Joseph Baker

Architect, past president of the Quebec Order of Architects

Former director of the School of Architecture , Universite Laval
Lucia Kowaluk

Community Organizer, past coordinator of the Urban Ecology Centre of Montreal

President, Milton-Parc Citizens Committee

Raphael Fischler,

Professor, School of Urban Planning, McGill University
Michel Gariepy

Professor, Institut d'Urbanisme, Université de Montréal

DISCUSSANTS

Henry Aubin, columnist, The Gazette

Chris Gobeil,spokesman

The Committee for the Sustainable Re-Development of Griffintown

CHAIR

Carole Piché-Burton

Lawyer, member, Milton-Parc Citizens Committee