JOSHUA ALLAN
The 1019 Report

The Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal aims to more than double the number of people in Vaudreuil-Soulanges who live near an Exo train station — except in Hudson.

The regional authority’s proposed 2026-2046 urban development plan, or PMAD, would see the average number of residences within a one-kilometre radius of train stations in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Pincourt, Terrasse Vaudreuil and Île Perrot stations increased from 40 to 100 dwellings per hectare.

Hudson, which also has an Exo train station, however, has been exempt from having to adhere to the transit-oriented-development (TOD) density levels being imposed by the CMM, Mayor Chloe Hutchison confirmed earlier this month to The 1019 Report.

Hutchison welcomed the CMM’s omission of Hudson from the TOD zones in the proposed PMAD, explaining train departures from the Hudson station are too infrequent to justify a significant density increase.

The increased density requirement would have also have an impact the surrounding natural spaces, she said.

“Had we kept the TOD, that would’ve doubled the density and had (an) impact on Sandy Beach,” Hutchison said. There has been a push by both the town an