Pointe-Claire, Que. residents head to the polls to vote in byelection after councillor resigns – Montreal | 24CA News

Top of thoughts for individuals who confirmed up at Pointe Claire metropolis corridor to vote Sunday was how town will appear and feel sooner or later.

“I think development is a concern, I think traffic is a concern,” District 1 resident Kevin O’Connor advised Global News on his solution to solid his poll.

They are points which have created, what some have described as, deep divisions inside the neighborhood due to competing visions for town.

According to former District 1 metropolis councillor Erin Tedford, debate turned hostile, even threatening.

Earlier this yr when she stop politics, after just a little greater than a yr into her mandate, she posted on social media that her “views were rarely welcomed and efforts to silence them have been aggressive.”

At the time she additionally spoke of being harassed at her dwelling.

Sunday’s by-election was to interchange Tedford.

At situation in Pointe Claire is what to do about improvement.

“We’re in the midst of the revision of the urban plan and this creates a lot of discussion,” defined City of Pointe Claire spokesperson Lucie Lamoureux.

Following the final municipal election, town positioned a freeze on actual property improvement, together with the Cadillac Fairview challenge that was deliberate for the realm close to the Fairview procuring centre.

The debate, which started even earlier than the final municipal election is about how a lot densification is an excessive amount of.

“We don’t want high rises, we don’t want 10-storey buildings, we want to maintain the green spaces that we have in Pointe Claire,” Susan Walker, one other resident burdened.

Voters say although they deplore the animosity, it factors to one thing extra constructive.

“There’s always been a bit of a rift in Pointe Claire,” Walker laughed.  “I think it’s because we’re all passionate about what’s going on in this city.”

That spirit, O’Connor believes, is evidenced by the variety of candidates within the by-election — six for a district with simply over 2,000 eligible voters.

“There are so many interesting things happening in Pointe Claire right now, with the development and the environment and what’s going on in our community, that people want to be involved, and I think that’s great,” he said.

Residents say they don’t count on to see eye-to-eye on all the pieces.  They simply need issues to be civil.