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WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT Weekly. Vol. -, No. /b We are Westmount March 3, .,-1 Plans revealed for permanent closure of Summit Circle BD L4A?77= SC77=7D Councillor Cynthia Lulham, commissioner Lulham obtained a Quebec government March 10, 2015, p. 1). of Parks and Sustainability, told the Inde - grant for the city last year to pay for half the “This grant and Lulham’s work to move The permanent closure to traffic of one pendent last week. $800,000 cost of the project (see story the project forward is what’s now making third of Summit Circle is about to become it possible,” Trent said. reality. The northern section is to be inte - The current condition of the asphalt grated into Summit Woods as a primary Training for the north paving has deteriorated to such an extent footpath this summer – some 25 years af - that it would otherwise cost the city $1 mil - ter the idea was first proposed. lion to replace it for traffic use, he states in “Instead of a road, there will be a grav - the letter. Integrating it into the urban for - elled winding foot path,” Mayor Peter est would save the city $600,000. Trent wrote in a letter mailed to all West - mounters this week. Details outlined This stretch of paved road was closed off “The permeable pathway will be ser - experimentally in 2009. It was in 1990, pentine and hug the rock face [rising to the however, that Trent launched the idea as a south] to showcase the natural beauty of “trial balloon” to create a continuous urban the stone,” Lulham said. forest linking Summit Woods with Westmounter Frank Philpott was The plan calls for removing the asphalt Belvedere Park down the north side of the training on his cross country skis from the seven-meter wide roadway be - mountain to Ridgewood and Forest Hill in March 5 on the upper field at King tween Oakland Ave. to the west and 15 George (Murray) Park. He was to be Montreal. travelling, a few days later, to Summit Circle to the east and replacing it Tenders are expected to be called as soon Moosonee, on the banks of James Bay with a four-meter wide gravel footpath. as possible so the work can start in June, in northern Ontario, where he was to The current guardrails, light standards and join a group called “Ski with the Cree.” benches will disappear. The reclaimed He said he would be eating traditional land bordering the pathway will be natu - Letters p. 8 Cree food, living for part of the time in ralized by the planting of Social Notes by V. Redgrave p. 17 a teepee and skiing on ice-encrusted tall prairie grass and 75 in - continued on p. 15 surfaces. Photo: Ralph Thompson B Open House Saturday 12-5pm EXTRAORDINARY Three dog walkers, 2 dogs hurt lives here in Summit Woods melée LIZA KAUFMAN Certified real estate broker BD L4A?77= SC77=7D call at 12:15 pm found three complainants 514.232.5932 had been trying to break up the skirmish. lizakaufman.com Efforts to separate nine dogs involved Dogs are allowed off leash on the summit in a fight in Summit Woods February 25 until April 15. ended with two professional dog walkers When all was sorted out, it was the Icône Condominiums – 1155 rue de la Montagne Ville-Marie (Downtown) Starting om $209,076+GST/QST and a woman with a single dog reporting woman walking her single dog who suf - Sales oce located at 1231 rue de la Montagne. injuries to their hands and to two dogs. fered what was reported to be the most B.514.934.1818 C.514.912.1482 In describing the incident, Public Secu - serious of the injuries. 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A two-pronged agglomeration agree - Suburban Municipalities (ASM), and and the Quartier des gares (between Cen - This is not only over what type of work ment announced March 4 between the city Montreal mayor Denis Coderre resolves tral and Windsor stations). should be considered an agglo expense of Montreal and the 15 demerged suburbs two of the more controversial issues still “We [at the ASM] predict that these costs but also because the costs are not also will be good “overall” for Westmount and outstanding from the demerger of the sub - could rise to $14 million without the cap,” shared by communities on the north and others with high property valuations, urbs at the start of 2006. he explained. south shores that also benefit from Mont - Mayor Peter Trent told the Independent. The savings for Montreal and the sub - This designated downtown sector actu - real being the “economic engine” of the re - Starting in 2017, the suburbs’ shared cost urbs in the agreements are described by ally comprises 18 square kilometers from gion and province. of Montreal’s escalating development proj - Trent as “a wash.” Based on the current sit - Atwater to Amherst, and Griffintown to The demerged suburbs contribute about ects in the downtown sector will be uation, he said, the suburbs’ development Pine Ave., for which the suburbs have been $400 million a year to the agglomeration, capped. On the other hand, the supply of costs will be capped at $8 million plus in - assessed development and infrastructure approximately 18 percent of the total from potable water will be charged according to flation, up from the $6 million they cur - costs based on property valuation. M on treal and t h e su bu r bs. consumption. Both are now based on rently pay based on property valuation. property valuations. The suburbs, however, will pay less for the “It’s a fairer way,” Trent explained, production and delivery of water. Louise Bédard though there are winners and losers Paying for water by consumption will Courtier immobilier agrée among the suburbs, he said. also be an incentive to reduce water use 307.581.18/7 068, rue Saint-Paul Westmount, with a comparatively high and repair leaking pipes, he said. Total wa - [email protected] Québec (Québec) real estate valuation, could expect to save ter costs are complicated by the fact that imcha.com/louisebedard G0K 2W1 roughly $400,000 in the supply of water the suburbs will continue to pay the shared based on figures from 2014 when it paid debt on Montreal’s filtration plants ac - some $1.4 million, he said. cording to property valuation. Under the current system, Westmount The real gain for the suburbs lies in the Charlevoix – La Malbaie consumes about one percent of all potable cap on the potential development costs in water in the agglomeration but is charged downtown Montreal, where projects coin - on its relative valuation of 2.4 percent. ciding with Montreal’s 375th anniversary Miss Vicky’s pleading injunction case at press time March 7 BD L4A?77= SC77=7D Located at St.