{"id":15168,"date":"2020-07-28T10:49:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T14:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/?p=15168"},"modified":"2023-01-16T12:16:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:16:22","slug":"communique-le-conseil-regional-de-lenvironnement-demande-a-la-ville-de-laval-de-maintenir-le-zonage-actuel-et-de-proteger-lile-gagnon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/communique-le-conseil-regional-de-lenvironnement-demande-a-la-ville-de-laval-de-maintenir-le-zonage-actuel-et-de-proteger-lile-gagnon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Regional Environmental Council asks the City of Laval to maintain the current zoning and protect Gagnon Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRESS RELEASE
\n<\/strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n

Laval, July 27, 2020<\/strong> \u2013 The Laval Regional Environmental Council (CRE), Laval and national organizations ask the City of Laval to maintain the current zoning of Gagnon Island in accordance with the revised land use and development plan (SADR), adopted by the City of Laval in August 2017 and by the government of Quebec in December 2017.<\/p>\n

Indeed, while the first and second SADR planned to change the "urban" designation of Gagnon Island to a "protection" designation, in response to the citizens' desire to preserve the last natural environments of Laval , the City of Laval unfortunately made an about-face by making the decision without informing the community to maintain the \u201curban\u201d designation of \u00cele Gagnon. You will then understand the astonishment and dismay of the citizens and organizations who participated in the consultations on the first versions of the document and who only learned in recent weeks that not only had their wishes been ignored, but that they had also been hid the truth while damaging their trust in the municipality. However, despite this turnaround, the City of Laval remains bound by the other provisions of the SADR.<\/p>\n

We would like to emphasize that despite its new "urban" designation, Gagnon Island is still included in a special ecological development zone (ZAEP) for which the city is committed to "creating living environments that promote good -being Laval residents and protecting biodiversity\u201d and \u201climiting the felling of trees\u201d. The city of Laval also undertakes to adopt regulatory urban planning tools including provisions aimed at protecting and enhancing the natural environment included within ZAEPs. These provisions also aim to allow the consideration and integration of natural environments in the development and qualitative evaluation of projects and to optimize citizen participation.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, according to the SADR, the Rivi\u00e8re-des-Mille-\u00celes archipelago, which includes Gagnon Island, remains an integral part of the heritage sites of metropolitan interest. The city of Laval undertakes to adopt town planning regulations including standards guaranteeing that modifications made to existing buildings and the insertion of new buildings in these sectors are done in harmony with their heritage character in order, in particular, to ensure the protection of significant elements.<\/p>\n

Although the City of Laval has modified the use of \u00cele Gagnon, we ask it to respect the current SADR guidelines and to develop regulations resulting from these guidelines. This can only be very restrictive so that the economic aspect is not favored at the expense of social and environmental acceptability and that Laval truly applies the principles of sustainable development. This would truly respond to the slogan of the City of Laval URBAN IN NATURE<\/em>.<\/p>\n