September 20, 2016 Single-Family up 6.2% Over 3 Years an Apple for Park(Ing) Day City Could Get ‘Clobbered’ by New Valuation Roll’S Effect on Agglo Portion: Trent

WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT Weekly. Vol. 10 No. 9c We are Westmount September 20, 2016 Single-family up 6.2% over 3 years An apple for Park(ing) Day City could get ‘clobbered’ by new valuation roll’s effect on agglo portion: Trent

By Laureen Sweeney The new roll for the island of Montreal is based on increases in market values over Westmount could get “clobbered” in its a three-year period ended July 1, 2015. share of agglomeration costs under the These show Westmount’s overall increase new triennial property valuation roll for of 7.2 percent to be the steepest of all mu - Photo: Martin C. Barry 2017, 2018 and 2019, Mayor Peter Trent nicipalities and well above the 5.9 percent said last week. It was deposited September reported for the island. 14. “The big concern I have is how [the new roll] will affect our agglomeration appor - tionment,” Trent said. “Time will tell.” As part of the Westmount’s participation in Park(ing) Day September 16, representatives from the city Westmount Page p. 16 His concerns hold true even under a version of the roll received by the city of as well as from local community groups took over parking spots with tables at five different locations to Westmount for taxation promote environmentalism. On Victoria Ave. just south of Sherbrooke St., the city’s environmental Letters p. 20 coordinator, Marina Peter, left, and communications coordinator, Maureen Lafrenière, middle, were assessment that in - continued on p. 18 On the Shelves p. 12 giving out information on some of Westmount’s environmental programs, when along came Rachelle Hauser and her two-and-a-half year-old daughter, Kaie, who accepted an apple they offered. Social Notes by V. Redgrave p. 21 New play structures ordered to replace old ones at Murray By Laureen Sweeney aged 5 to 12. Included is a swing with a therapeutic seat designed for people with Users of the playground in King George physical or developmental disabilities giv - (Murray) Park can expect to find new play ing “all children the right to play,” ex - structures in place later in the fall or by plained Public Works director Patrick BRIAN GRANT spring at latest, Councillor Cynthia Lul - Raggo. 514.249.1500 ham told the council meeting September The new equipment was ordered right MARIE SICOTTTE VIVIAN GRANT 6. after the contract was approved by council, Real Estate Broker 514.592.4636 One set of swings and climbing equip - Raggo said. The quote of $86,708 (includ - ment is aimed at kids aged 12 months to 5 ing tax) came from 514 953-98088 The Strength of TEAMWORK [email protected] years, while another module is for those Techsport Inc., the only continued on p. 19 mariesicotte.com The Reputation for RESULTS Profusion Realty inc • Real Estate Ageenncy

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By Laureen Sweeney tion that can clean them up and check other garbage. They remained in the park them out. for about a week before a city worker took Do so-called donated or abandoned toys them away. belong in a city playground? ‘Unfortunate’, Smith says The toys, she said, included typical sand A great place to live, in a perfect location. The question arose last week after Pub - “It’s unfortunate the toys had to be taken buckets, shovels and trucks of the type of - lic Works received complaints about toys out and that it had to come to that,” District ten left behind in other sandboxes. “They found “strewn around” the small 5 councillor Christina Smith told the In - were older, sturdy plastic toys that did not Somerville Park and removed them for dependent . seem to be rusted or sharp. The kids had reasons of “aesthetics and safety,” depart - “Certainly it was a very nice gesture by so much fun with them [that] they didn’t ment director Patrick Raggo confirmed Jacqueline. But I do support the city’s re - want to leave the park!” last week. sponsibility to ensure the safety of play - Occasionally a sand bucket gets forgot - Very affordable all inclusive rates… The toys – about 30 in all, estimates a grounds. It’s why we have safety standards ten in a playground but that is different All meals Medication distribution park user – are reported to have been taken for our playground equipment.” from a bagful of toys, Raggo noted. Daily tea 24 hour security there from Rainbow pre-school, which Nevertheless, both Smith and Raggo Daily housekeeping 24 hour nurse ceased operation last June at Westmount Neighbour puts toys into garbage said that children are very welcome to Personal Laundry Extensive activity programme Park Church. The school’s director Jacque - A mother of children who use the park bring their own toys to the playgrounds. line Thom, who lives nearby, did not re - explained how the saga unfolded before And addressing the complaint of “aes - Manoir Westmount Inc. turn messages to confirm this. the city became involved. thetics,” one Somerville resident whose 4646 Sherbrooke Street West “In this case, the toys had been in and About two weeks ago, she said, a woman house runs along the side of the park told Westmount, QC H3Z 2Z8 out of the garbage and appeared to have living nearby was seen in the park stuffing the Independent she never noticed that the been very used,” Raggo explained. “We the toys into a garbage bag and putting it toys had even been there in the first place. For an appointment to view, please call can’t guarantee their safety.” out for garbage collection the next day. “They can’t have looked that bad,” said The toys are being kept at Public Works The witness, who knew they had come Gabrielle Soskin. After a career in theatre, until the owner can be found, he said. from Rainbow, subsequently emptied the the retired founding director of Perse - 514.937.3943 He advised anyone who has toys to do - bag back into the park and said the toys did phone Productions noted “I do notice ugly www.manoirwestmount.ca nate to give them to a charitable organiza - not appear to have been mixed in with things!”

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New Rainbow daycare on St. Jacques Officer recognizes resurrects name of closed loose dog rescued from traffic Westmount pre-school A loose dog was rescued from traffic at Estate & Moving Sales Sherbrooke and Metcalfe by two people By Laureen Sweeney Darawan said she had opened the pri - found holding onto it by the collar Septem - We Provide vate bilingual daycare a month ago, after ber 9 at 7:40 pm, Public Security officials Professional Evaluations Anyone who may have seen notices an - having returned to Canada on closing one said. The dog was not wearing a tag but Staging of your home nouncing the start of Garderie Rainbow she had operated in Damascus due to “the was recognized by the responding officer Courteous & bonded Sta daycare may be excused for thinking that situation in Syria.” That one, she said, also for having run loose on two previous oc - Clean-up after sale Jardin d’enfants Rainbow had started up operated in English and French, catering casions. It was returned to its owner on Ar - Iona & Marvin again after closing its doors last June at to children of diplomats and other for - lington, who was issued a ticket for $77. Master Editions Antiques Westmount Park Church. eigners. The dog was reported to have been regis - 514-501-9072 After all, the new Rainbow at 2005 St. Her current premises, at Canning St. tered even though it was not wearing its li - Jacques has taken its name from the for - south of the Georges Vanier Metro station cence. mer pre-school, according to its founder between Atwater and Guy, has capacity for Hala Darawan. up to 64 children aged 3 months to 5 years, “We liked the name and knew the school she said. She is actively looking to increase had closed down so when we applied, we enrollment through her website at were told the name was available,” she told garderierainbow.com. After the first the Independent last week. “Apparently the month, she has a dozen registered in name ‘Rainbow’ had not been registered.” newly renovated premises.

Garderie Rainbow daycare opens at 2005 St. Jacques at Canning St. Woman bitten by Lab-mix A woman was reported to have been bit - not exchange information at the time but ten by a passing dog on Sunnyside near the incident was later reported by phone af - Roslyn September 3, according to Public ter a physician treated the woman. The Security reports. The victim was walking victim was advised to call Public Security if with her husband at the time. Described as she spotted the dog again but no addi - a black Labrador mix, the dog apparently tional report had been filed by September bit the woman as it was being walked by 14. another. The victim and dog owner did 6 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – September 20, 2016 Westmounters are reading the Independent

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I was delighted to discover that there the exhibition for the first time at this “We don’t take any money from the city Ingrid Kovitch- were only two holy grail/CUSS items on year’s rendition October 1 and 2. It is the budget.” Dannenbaum this year’s list: sixth time for the event held every second Instead, the event’s revenue comes from 1. MLA Handbook : Eighth Edition. Please year at Victoria Hall and Place Kensington. advertising in a leaflet and the sponsorship note that it must be eighth. (For the The decision to include authors this year of exhibition rooms. The leaflet, to be avail - Ahhhh September! And with it, the an - record, I would have been more than “is a perfect fit for us now that the Com - able at municipal buildings or on the city nual tradition of wigging out over another happy to pander to the edition demand, munity Events office is merged with the li - website, provides a long list of all partici - daffy school supply list. if only I knew what an MLA handbook brary,” said Councillor Nicole Forbes, com - pants. Girded by the age-old back-to-school was.) missioner of culture. Last year when more than 3,000 visitors cocktail of vodka and Xanax (oddly not on 2. Bullet journal (with dots or graph pa - The local unjuried exhibition aims to attended, Forbes noted, the event rented a the list), I mustered my courage and my per), preferably Moleskine, dotted. showcase art and artists in the commu - food truck, which was parked outside Vic - daughter and headed out to a local store. nity as part of the three-day Journées de la toria Hall. “But we’re trying to cut down on No sooner had we arrived than we were “Siri,” I began. “Where can I find a bul - Culture in Quebec. expenses. The truck cost between $200 set upon by a classmate’s mother. let-journal-with-dots-or-graph-paper- Also, a first for this year’s event, visitors and $300 but none of the proceeds of the “WHAT IS THIS?!?!?” she shrieked, preferably-Moleskine-dotted?” will have an opportunity to have lunch or sales came back to us.” waving the supply list maniacally. “Some Nothing. Silence. a snack at a mini-café to be set up at Vic - The original format of Art Westmount kind of perverse scavenger hunt?” (Note to self: Siri does not inhabit flip toria Hall by Philip Chang, who operates in 2006 consisted of visits to artists’ studios Indeed, I imagined a scene from The phones). the Café Mouton Noir at the Westmount or homes in various parts of the city (see Amazing Race , with scads of unnaturally Well, I found it. And I can tell you recreation centre. story September 9, 2008, p. 1). This was telegenic mother-child teams, saddled with where. At $26 apiece, they were safely en - Participating are 53 painters, photogra - found to be inconvenient to many visitors mammoth backpacks, jostling and shoving sconced behind a locked, glass-faced cabi - phers, other illustrators and sculptors, as and was replaced in 2010 by a centralized as they dove for the last remaining net. The same glass that desperate mums well as nine authors who will also hold location at Victoria Hall with one addi - Bescherelle . were banging up against, like demonic readings during hour-long discussions tional venue at Place Kensington. Instead, I was met with the glazed and moths at a lit window. with the public at the library. vacant look of bewildered shoppers as they Unwilling to flit, I opted instead to pon - Including the authors in the event “will Tree falls on school route stumbled despairingly through the aisles, der the recurrent existential question of also provide an opportunity for authors to like recent survivors of a zombie apoca - the school supply world. Namely: WHAT mingle with the artists,” Forbes said. A tree fell on Lansdowne Ridge damag - lypse now charged with the spirit-sucking IS WITH UNSHARPENED PENCILS?!? I “Some may not have met; others may have ing a fence and obstructing the roadway task of locating the holy grail. mean really, for the love of Pete, what is the collaborated through book illustration.” September 11, a Sunday, Public Security of - Many wandered with eyes glued to the point? (Or rather, where?) Door prizes also will also be drawn ficials said. Because of its proximity to Villa digital lists on their phones, leading me to A pencil, without exposed lead, cannot throughout the weekend. They have been St. Marceline and school the next day, Pub - suspect that they were searching not for be used for its intended purpose. When I donated by cultural institutions and local lic Works was reported to have called in a duotangs, but for Pokemon, in a school buy an axe, penknife or lawnmower, I do merchants. The exhibition has no entrance tree crew to remove it “right away.” The supply of Bureau-en-Go. not need to break out my grinder and fee. two-foot diameter tree was reported down I myself was working hard to suppress whetstone before they are rendered func - Art Westmount is operated by a volun - at 9:44 am. glee. With only my youngest still in high tional. Could they possibly imagine that ev -

school, I believed that my days of Con - eryone has an electric pencil sharpener at founding Ultra-specific School Supplies home? (Shameful confession: we do.) (CUSS) were disappearing behind me. I And then there is the staggering quan - thought back – with no nostalgia whatso - tity. On average, per child, I buy 86 pencils ever – to some of the CUSSiest: each year. At 7.5 inches per pencil that - Peanut, gluten, and dairy-free vegan comes to – just a second while I dig out the snacks. abacus – 645 inches of pencil. I doubt that - Illustrated haiku about child’s favourite even my own beaver-like offspring are ca - vacation activity. pable of gnawing through 53¾ feet of - 5 petri dishes. wood-encased graphite annually. - Family tree going back to the 1600s, ide - More vexatious than the resulting gum ally with photos. splinters is the tauntingly tiny eraser on - Hand sanitizer, suture thread, organic the other end, which, at one quarter inch, aloe vera. is a woefully inadequate ratio of mistake- - African violet with turquoise blooms or expunger to mistake-generator. Worn one Bonsai tree. down to nothing halfway through dictée - Abacus. #1, I suspect the remaining 7.49 inches of - Long sleeved art smock, hemp fiber only, pencil gets jettisoned in favour a brand no Disney characters. new one. Because heaven forbid they continued on p. 20 WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – September 20, 2016 – 9

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Kudos, concerns voiced over road work, bike route, weeds By Lau ree n S ween ey Kliger also sai d tha t in walkin g “all over Westmo unt,” she had noticed tall weeds A t its meeting Sep tem ber 6, city council growin g in the plan ting areas crea ted in he ard kudos ov er the re cent reco nstruc - sidew alk bu mp-outs and ask ed h ow the tion of Westm ount Ave. but co ncerns over city wo uld main tain the ne w one s on West - the trial bike route and how the planting mo unt A ve. POR TE S OUVER R TE S portions of the new bump-o uts would be Ac cordin g to C ouncill or Cynthia Lul - maintai ned. ham, commiss ioner of parks and sustain -

e Helaine Kliger, who lives on Roslyn near ability, the city would be planting all the Pr endse ta place dès la 5 an née Westmo unt Ave., said s he first wa nted to bump-out s thro ugh out the ci ty with a uni - Samedi 1 er octobr e à 9h, RSVP comp liment t he city o n th e road re con - f orm look nex t spring wh ich wo uld facili - struction project but had com e to ask tate m aintenanc e. Th ese in clud e the ones about usag e of the b ike path on Côte St. o n Metcalfe at Sp ringfield. vi la.mar ce line.qc.ca Anto ine, in partic ular.

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were posted for prices over $2 million, and besides the $565,000 sale, two others went Real Estate for less than $1 million. Compared to the current municipal roll, JE, T U, Andy Dodge, CRA the 11 sale prices ranged from 14 percent below to 43 percent above the municipal value. It is our view that the volume portends The following article relates to offers to pur - a strong fall buying season, and already chase Westmount residential dwellings that sales stickers are being ticked up on the ELLE, were reported by local real estate agents as September board. having been accepted in August 2016. Be - There are relatively few single-family cause they are not final registered sales, the ad - dwellings on the market now: 111 in mid- dresses cannot be made public but give a good September, compared with 160 a year ago, idea of current trends in local real estate ac - so this might help move properties. NOUS, VOUS, tivity. The graph offers a picture of these trends For the 11 August sales, they averaged over time. 221 days on the market, which is unusually Volume remained steady and prices rea - long, but this could be a sign that even sonably strong in August home sales in “stale” listings now have a chance. Westmount this year, and in fact the year’s volume is now stronger than for any year Condos ELLES since 2007. Condos are selling at a slightly lower Eleven sales in a range between pace, but two of the new units at 175 Met - $565,000 and $4,450,000 make up the list calfe Ave. came off the books in August, for August, usually one of the lowest-vol - along with an apartment nearby at 11 Hill - L’AVENIR SE CONJUGUE ume months for real estate sales, but in side Ave. fact volume is almost the same as in June So far in the third quarter (July and Au - AU FÉMININ and July. gust), six condo sales have been posted for All but three of the sales were for more an average seven-percent mark-up over than the 2014 municipal assessment. Be - valuation, compared sides the top sale of $4,450,000, two others with nine in each of the continued on p. 20

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inscrivez-vous | sign up: [email protected] 514 989-5200 t westmount.org t [email protected] WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – September 20, 2016 – 17 Still illegal until Oct. 1 New-style sign, more coming This mid-street sign, a new type How many tickets are enough in Westmount, was photographed on Prince Albert above Chesterfield on September 9. to stop a leaf blower? According to Patrick Raggo, director of Public Works, “We By Laureen Sweeney rent, officials said he was informed they in - plan to use these signs more often tended to ask the court to increase the in order to communicate more A gardening contractor was to be ticket - amount of the ticket to $641. effectively with motorists, ted twice within two days of each other Two days later, however, when the same pedestrians and cyclists. We for continued use of a leaf blower out of man was caught on Belvedere Rd. at 11 intend to use them as needed to season, Public Security officials said. The am using the leaf blower again, it was de - replace bollards [and] flower pots, total cost being sought by the city: $1,923. cided to seek a further ticket increase from which can be less effective, and in On September 7, an officer patrolling on Montreal Municipal Court to $1,282. This some cases do not necessarily conform to the Quebec Highway Severn reported hearing a blower in oper - includes a $1,000 fine, up from $500, and Safety Code.” Another prominent ation at 8:10 am on Rosemount Cresc. The an administration fee of $282. one is reportedly at the crosswalk gardener claimed it was only for a few sec - While the fall clean-up period for per - near Dawson College. onds. Nevertheless, the officer noted he mitted use of leaf blowers is approaching Photo: Westmount Independent had received several warnings and at least from October 1 to November 15, they are two previous tickets for $270 each. Since still considered to be out of season at this these had apparently not acted as a deter - time.

Dawson cont’d. from p. 10 and they took to the stage to recount their classes, walked the same halls that we did. experience. Quadros acknowledged the She was a young woman looking for her death of her classmate. path and discovering what the world had to “We will always remember Anastasia De offer. She was just like me, just like you. Sousa,” she said. “She had the same morn - She was part of Dawson and always re - ing routine as we did, had the same mains close to our thoughts.”

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The valuation department reports that Among other municipalities, the sec - The figures show that the average single- the island-wide valuation roll increase of ond-highest increase was incurred by Andy Dodge, CRA family dwelling now has a valuation of 5.9 percent is the lowest roll-to-roll in - Town of Mount Royal at 6.6 percent, but about $1,614,000, up from $1,505,700 on crease since 2001, but the increase was none of the other demerged municipalities the last roll. There are now 3,505 single- stronger in the central city than it was in increased more than the average for the is - Westmount property tax assessments family dwellings in Westmount, up five more remote boroughs or cities – except, land, which was 5.9 percent. have increased more than any other mu - from three years ago. The valuation de - that is, Côte St. Luc (1.9 percent), Mon - The $1,614,000 average single-family val - nicipality on the island of Montreal, news partment reports 1,621 condominiums, in - treal West (2.9 percent) or Hampstead (a uation in Westmount is more than 17 per - which might affect the city’s contribution cluding garages ( see story, p. 1) , way up paltry 0.1 percent). cent higher than the $1,372,300 average to the agglomeration, which makes up half from 1,298 in 2014 before the addition of The two highest increases on the island ascribed to Outremont, which is in sec - the annual property tax bill. 1250 Greene Ave., 11 Hillside Ave., 175 Met - are credited to the boroughs of Rose - ond place. the only other districts to break Publication last week of the 2017-18-19 is - calfe Ave. and 215 Redfern Ave. The roll mount-La Petite Patrie and the neigh - the $1-million mark are Hampstead land of Montreal valuation roll brought suggests an average valuation of $977,500, bouring Villeray-St. Michel-Park Exten - ($1,092,600) and Town of Mount Royal news that the total value of taxable property compared to $916,700 in 2014; with many sion, at 9.3 and 8.3 percent, respectively. ($1,082,800). in Westmount as of July 1, 2015 was new condominiums added to the roll, it is Two other boroughs, Le Sud-Ouest The department reports the highest sin - $9,599,081,914, up 7.2 percent since the hard to compare the two averages, but ac - (which includes the burgeoning Griffin - gle-family dwelling evaluation is $19.1 mil - previous valuation roll (2014), which was cording to the new roll, owners might ex - town) and Côte des Neiges-NDG showed lion. While we can’t be sure, we can note based on the market value of July 1, 2012. pect an average 5.4-percent increase in val - higher increases than Westmount, and that the Stephen Bronfman residence at 15 Plateau Mont-Royal, which had jumped Belvedere Rd. has a 2017 30 percent in the previous roll, went up an - valuation of $19,059,800, continued on p. 19 Trent analyzes valuation roll’s impact cont’d. from p. 1 Single-family dwellings Condos cludes additions of new construction and condos” in Westmount. completed renovations inspected to date. Market-based increases in property value Municipality or No. Average Increase Municipality/borough No. Average Valuation borough (B) Valuation Increase This, he said, pegs Westmount property show the largest category, single-family Westmount 3,505 1,614,000 6.2% Westmount 934 977,500 5.4% values up 10.3 percent compared to those dwellings, up 6.2 percent with condos at Outremont (B) 2,473 484,800 1.9% on the equivalent island-wide roll of 10.2 5.4 percent – a figure Trent says is actually Outremont (B) 1,879 1,372,300 3.3% Hampstead 1,480 1,092,600 -0.9% Town of Mount Royal 737 444,300 7.2% percent. 28 percent for condo dwellings. Town of Mount Royal 3,933 1,082,800 5.3% Ville Marie (B) 19,162 426,900 2.3% “Westmount might get clobbered,” Trent Residential properties of two to five Ville Marie (B) 1,267 977,800 9.0% Verdun (B) 8,339 370,900 -1.0% maintained, by having the highest increase units are up 9.9 percent and apartment Senneville 329 909,000 1.0% Plateau-Mont-Royal (B) 10,743 365,800 2.6% of all the demerged cities in a complicated buildings of six units or more have risen Plateau-Mt. Royal (B) 1,628 737,200 9.9% Côte-des-Neiges-NDG 7,288 363,300 3.9% formula used to determine their share of 15.9 percent, which Trent says was over - Côte-des-Neiges-NDG 6,227 676,800 6.5% Côte St. Luc 2,759 337,200 -4.1% agglo apportionments. due. Baie d’Urfé 1,276 666,100 0.8% Pointe Claire 616 331,400 1.4% For the owners of single-family While the category of office valuation Verdun (B) 2,506 657,500 4.0% Sud-Ouest (B) 9,949 316,700 4.1% Rosemont-La Petite Patrie (B) 8,756 306,000 dwellings, an increase of only 6.2 percent rose 15.9 percent, commercial property is Montreal West 1,207 610,200 -0.9% Côte St. Luc 3,504 584,600 1.4% 5.2% in valuation over three years may come as less at 10.2 percent. Saint Laurent (B) 8,541 283,600 2.0% a surprise to some. This brings the average It won’t be known until municipal bud - Beaconsfield 6,082 571,900 5.5% Saint Laurent (B) 8,365 557,100 5.8% Villeray-Saint Michel- value of a house as of valuation day July 1, gets are brought down just how the prop - Ahuntsic-Cartierville (B) 7,955 513,500 4.3% Park Extension 3,769 278,900 2.9% 2015 to $1.6 million, the highest on the is - erty increases will translate into tax bills, St. Leonard (B) 2.741 500,400 1.8% Saint Leonard (B) 1,907 270,300 0.4% land. especially when individual values may Kirkland 6,118 498,100 2.9% Dorval 1,051 266,400 0.8% On the other hand, Trent said “I didn’t have increased above the average due to Rosemont- Dollard-des-Ormeaux 1,568 266,300 2.4% expect Westmount to go up as much.” renovations or additions. La Petite Patrie 2,489 497,600 9.8% LaSalle (B) 3,666 258,900 3.4% Westmount’s roll for 2017 is up from Ile Bizard- Kirkland 273 258,200 2.1% $8.7 billion to $9.6 billion since 2014. Average No. % up St. Geneviève (B) 5,001 444,700 3.3% Hampstead 64 255,800 -4.8% increase for 2017-2019 Dollard-des-Ormeaux 10,958 433,300 3.6% Ahuntsic-Cartierville (B) 7,164 247,300 1.3% One of the most striking differences be - Anjou (B) 3,575 238,000 -0.6% tween the publicized market-driven valua - roll based on property sales Dorval 4,248 424,900 6.4% in Westmount as at July 15, 2015 LaSalle (B) 3,191 423,300 5.4% Montreal North (B) 1,225 237,600 1.4% tion roll for Westmount and the aggregate Mercier-Hochelaga- Single-family dwelling 3,505 6.2 Sud-Ouest (B) 2,391 415,900 8.8% roll involves condos, he said. Anjou (B) 2,894 393,200 3.4% Maisonneuve 7,781 235,400 1.5% There are now actually 958 condo units Condominium 1,621* 5.4 Ile Bizard- Residential 2-5 units 284 9.9 Pointe Claire 8,418 392,900 4.9% in Westmount rather than 1,621 listed for Lachine (B) 4,254 383,100 2.0% St. Geneviève (B) 361 221,300 3.3% Westmount, which includes garages and Apartment bldgs. 6+ units 103 15.9 St. Anne de Bellevue 891 382,600 0.9% St. Anne de Bellevue 66 219,200 -0.8% other items. Offices 31 15.9 Villeray-St. Michel- Pierrefonds-Roxboro (B) 2,725 219,000 0.5% The average value of a condo unit is now Commercial/mixed 233 10.2 Park Extension 3,504 364,100 9.6% Baie d’Urfé 46 214,900 -3.3% $843,096, up 7.7 percent in three years, he Institutional 50 2.3 Pierrefonds-Roxboro (B) 15,777 363,000 3.8% Montreal West 3 208,100 0.7% Lachine (B) 2,377 206,000 -0.7% said. Industries 8 5.7 Mercier-Hochelaga- Vacant land 233 4.4 Maisonneuve 5,463 356,400 6.6% Beaconsfield 220 187,700 6.9% The total value of all these condo units is Rivière-des-Prairies- $807.6 million, he said, up 28 percent from Overall 6,068 7.3 Rivière-des-Prairies- Pointe-aux-Trembles 19,601 324,200 4.1% Pointe-aux-Trembles 5,160 185,400 2.6% the collective value of 806 units on the * According to Mayor Peter Trent, this fig - Montreal North (B) 4,285 307,400 5.0% Montreal East 74 161,700 2.6% city’s 2014 roll. ure includes garages and other areas, the Montreal East 489 234,100 8.4% This, he added, supports what he has actual number of condos being 958. Dorval Island 61 232,800 -4.5% been saying about “the proliferation of Source: Montreal valuation roll 2017, 2018, 2019 Source: Montreal valuation roll 2017, 2018, 2019 WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – September 20, 2016 – 19

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August analysis cont’d. from p. 15 Lighter side cont’d. from p. 8 Letters to the Editor first two quarters, with mark-ups hovering should use any of the 392 detached around unity. Staedtler Mars plastic erasers that I have The beauty of a small would have lost overnight parking privi - Adjacent-Westmount sectors have had a bought over the previous 21 years! lages over the weekend. busy summer, too, especially western But really, we are all just grateful when administration It is a reminder that small administra - NDG, where 12 one- and two-family home the eraser nubbins do, actually, erase. As Something very positive happened to tive cities within a larger metropolis can sales have been posted since June 1. opposed to those that have clearly been convince me that despite Westmount’s loss provide a seemingly personal service to Among 23 sales in that sector so far this forged from the same impenetrable rubber of municipal power, municipal staff can the citizen. This experience was a re - year, only seven have been over the $1 mil - as rollerblade wheels, and hence do little still excercise their power to put the citizen minder of what it was like to live in a pre- lion mark. other than smear carbon willy nilly across first. It is a small gesture that one would ex - merger suburb. The highest price for the year came in the paper, you know, just so the teacher can pect to find only in a close-knit, small com - A special thank-you to Joycelyn Dottin August at $1,570,000. appreciate that your child completed her munity. from the parking permit department and The summer months have seen five math sheet while moonlighting as a chim - Using the hands-free dialing feature on to Officer Patel. sales north of Westmount, five between ney sweep. my phone, I explained to Joycelyne Dottin Nigel Goddard, Irvine Ave. Atwater Ave. and Mount Royal Park, two Or perhaps the blunted non-writing side at the Westmount car permit desk that the in Shaughnessy village and one on Red - is meant chiefly as a security feature. In traffic on Decarie had come to a standstill Off track? path Cresc. which case why emboss each pencil with and that I wouldn't get to her office to pick Twenty-eight houses have been rented the HB (whatever that is) number? In - It seems as if our city council is losing its up my sticker by 4:15 pm, as we had origi - through MLS so far this year compared stead, the stamp should read, “For safer way. nally agreed. with only 20 at the same time last year. An - eye-poking, use this end.” First, new unnecessary, complicated, ex - Her solution was above and beyond other 20 homes are listed for rent, five of But we did it! We vanquished another pensive parking meters are installed that what I would have expected. those asking over $10,000 a month. Both of formidable supply list. And given the al - bear no resemblance to any other such Earlier in the day, I had emailed all the the latter numbers are about the same as ternative of home schooling, I think I will meters in the Montreal area. documents she needed to print my sticker. a year ago. keep right on CUSSing. Then bike paths are created on Côte St. Knowing that I had the cheque for the full Antoine and Westmount Ave. that are in - amount, she asked Officer Patel to bring it conveniently and dangerously placed for to me and he would collect the cheque. Crack in large branch a hazard drivers who wish to turn and residents The new parking sticker was delivered A parking attendant at the Metro grocery of a house on Grosvenor and was found to who wish to access their homes or the by PSO Patel with just seven hours left on store on Victoria flagged down a patroller constitute a danger of falling onto a neigh - street. the old sticker. September 7 to report a hazardous tree, bour’s property or the parking lot. The Let’s get back on track, folks. I am truly grateful for this solution as it Public Security officials said. The cracked branch was to be removed. Tim Carsley, Barat Rd. was a Friday and without the city's help, I branch was traced to a property at the back

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