“This is our DDO!” Bottausci says at urban consult
By Chelsey St-Pierre
The Suburban
The city of Dollard-des-Ormeaux (DDO) is inviting residents to the civic centre on April 4 and 6 for another round of public consultations on its development plans. Following two workshops with residents in the fall as well as two information sessions hosted by DDO’s urban planning department, a draft plan has been reviewed and presented to the public via the city’s website.
With the recommendation of the monitoring committee, made up of seven residents and three city officials, a booth will be set up at the entrance of city hall on a busy weekday and weekend day where residents can meet with the city’s urban planning staff to review and discuss the plans. “We are setting up at the entrance in order to be as visible as possible. Transparency is the key to this process as we rely heavily on the input of residents. We placed invites at every residence in DDO and announced the dates on our billboards,” Kerri-Lynn Strotmann, section chief — urban planning and territorial management, told The Suburban.
DDO urban planning director Sylvain Boulianne told The Suburban that this process is essential to the city preparing its propositions to the Agglo to avoid it sweeping its brush blindly across the West Island canvas. “It is our best shot at having the residents’ voices heard and maintaining their interests. We review the recommendations of residents and we determine the feasibility as part of an overall plan. This is what we want to show them and hear their feedback before finalizing the plans.”
“We have had a lot of input from our residents prior to the revision (by the city’s urban planning department) and we want to share this collective vision with all of our residents and answer their questions,” administrative assistant to the director general at the city of DDO Myriam Simani told The Suburban.
“We have not done a full review since 1982. This was one of the first projects on my to-do list when I was elected in 2017 and I wanted community engagement to be at the heart of this process. This is OUR Dollard-des-Ormeaux. It does not belong to the mayor or the city councillors. Development is one of the driving points for a city and we are really looking forward to seeing our residents’ dreams and aspirations come to life,” DDO mayor Alex Bottausci told The Suburban. n
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