Montreal Metropolitan Community group wants brakes put on hospital parking plan – Montreal | 24CA News
The Montreal Metropolitan Community (CMM) desires the provincial authorities to reverse its determination to construct a floor degree paved car parking zone on the location of the longer term Vaudreuil-Soulanges hospital.
Comprising 82 Montreal-area municipalities and headed by Montreal mayor Valérie Plante, the CMM stresses that such a car parking zone would contribute to making a warmth island impact within the space.
Officials additionally level out that it wouldn’t be in line with the land use improvement plan and the province’s personal tips for land use. The website for the hospital is 25 hectares and a ground-level car parking zone alone would take up 5.7 hectares.
Vaudreuil-Dorin mayor Guy Pilon says a car parking zone that dimension is unnecessary.
“We accepted plans for the hospital a few years ago, and a big part of the parking was supposed to be underground or multi-level parking,” he informed Global News.
“They decided a few weeks ago to save money.”
In an announcement to Global News, well being ministry spokesperson Noémie Vanheuverzwijn indicated, with out giving figures, that rising building prices was an element, however that the ministry shares the considerations of the CMM relating to the discount of environmental impacts.
“Major efforts are being made to significantly reduce heat islands, in particular by installing a canopy that will cover 40% of the surface of the parking lot, which will considerably reduce the temperature of the site and the heat island effect,” she wrote.
Still, Pilon desires the federal government to return to the unique plan saying {that a} cover can be sufficient.
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