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LOCAL ELECTION PLATFORM 2017 LE SUD-OUEST Projetmontreal.Org LOCAL ELECTION PLATFORM 2017 LE SUD-OUEST projetmontreal.org Agente ofcielle Carole LeRoux MESSAGE FROM THE CANDIDATES We are truly proud of both the work accomplished and the progress made throughout this past mandate across all of our neighborhoods: Ville-Émard, Grifntown, Petite-Bourgogne, Pointe-Saint-Charles, Saint-Henri, Côte-Saint-Paul. These are neighborhoods in which solidarity is at the heart of our community groups, and where the proximity of our services allow us to fully support local businesses and active transport. Above all, this is a borough where living together allows every citizen, regardless of their origin or profession, to feel welcome. The Sud-Ouest, both its residents and its merchants, deserves only the best. This involves an unparalleled quality of life in which residents are at the heart of our actions, whether it’s regarding transport, trafc, economic development, housing, community life, heritage, the environment, sports and leisure, culture, or citizen engagement. Our platform is a natural extension of our previous mandate, which will help lay the groundwork for the success our projects in the years to come. There is still a lot to accomplish together, and we are more determined than ever to make the Sud-Ouest a dynamic, welcoming and unique place for all its citizens. VALÉRIE BENOIT CRAIG SOPHIE ANNE-MARIE ALAIN PLANTE DORAIS SAUVÉ THIÉBAUT SIGOUIN VAILLANCOURT Mairesse de Montréal Maire d’arrondissement Conseiller de ville Conseillè re Conseillère de ville Conseiller Mayor of Montreal Borough Mayor City Councillor d’arrondissement City Councillor d’arrondissement Borough Councillor Borough Councillor LE 5 NOVEMBRE ON NOVEMBER 5TH 514 660-6247 ÉQUIPE/TEAM 5980, boulevard Monk VALÉRIE PLANTE projetmontreal.org LE SUD-OUEST Agente ofcielle Carole LeRoux 1. TRANSPORT AND TRAFFIC SAFETY 5 Transform Public Space into More Welcoming Spaces Create a Strong Trafc Calming and Road Safety Plan for Active Transport Develop Safe, High Quality Bike Paths Manage Parking Efciently Regulation of Rail Transport 2. AN ECONOMY FOR EVERYONE 9 Create Locally Based Christmas Markets Actively Support Local Job Creation and Business Revitalize our Commercial Streets 3. HOUSING AND COMMUNITY LIFE 13 Buy Land for the Creation of Community Housing and Services Protect Rentors and Rental Housing Stock Verify the Sanitary Conditions of Housing Support Community Groups Work in Partnership on the Issue of Gentrification 4. PROMOTION OF CULTURE AND HERITAGE 15 Protect Residential Architectural Heritage Highlight the Historical Monuments of the Borough Showcase Heritage Parks Create New Spaces For the Exhibition of Art Support Artists and Cultural Organizations Democratize Arts and Culture in our Neighbourhoods Value Diversity 3 5. ENVIRONMENT, PARKS SPORTS AND LEISURE 20 Massive Greening of the Sud-Ouest Increase Composting Add More Dog Parks Plan and Maintain Parks and Sports Fields Encourage the Development of Sports and Leisure Develop Winter Sports Activites 6. QUALITY OF LIFE 24 Support Urban Agriculture Prioritize Universal Accessibility Improve Cleanliness and Diminish Grafti in the Sud-Ouest Encourage Reusable Diapers Improve Access to Public Schools Support our Seniors 7. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, TRANSPARENCY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE 28 Consult Citizens on Issues that Efect them Directly Support and Encourage Citizen Participation Facilitate Access to Information Ensure Coherent and Holistic Planning of our Neighbourhoods Support Anticorruption Measures Increase Administrative Efciency 4 1. TRANSPORT AND TRAFFIC SAFETY Transform Public Space into More Welcoming Spaces IN SAINT-HENRI-EST– IN SAINT-PAUL–ÉMARD– PETITE-BOURGOGNE– SAINT-HENRI-OUEST: POINTE-SAINT-CHARLES– GRIFFINTOWN: đƫ Create a federative cycling route đƫ Redesign and revitalize Place in Western Saint-Henri and Saint-Henri Saint-Paul for more welcoming and safe streets (PDUES-Turcot) Create a Strong Traffic Calming and Road Safety Plan for Active Transport đƫ Prepare a local transport plan for the entire borough in order to act in a comprehensive manner on through-transit, local trafc as well as active and mass-transit đƫ Develop new pedestrianization projects in close collaboration with local milieu đƫ Continue securing residential alleyways đƫ Eliminate through trafc in residential neighbourhoods đƫ Add stop signs at problematic intersections đƫ Multiply the number of sidewalk extensions đƫ Slow down trafc on arteries 5 IN SAINT-HENRI-EST– IN SAINT-PAUL–ÉMARD– PETITE-BOURGOGNE– SAINT-HENRI-OUEST: POINTE-SAINT-CHARLES– GRIFFINTOWN: đƫ Support the development of đƫ Enhance the ‘Sentier de la the Éco-Quartier’s Greenways Bourgogne’ project đƫ Build a Woonerf on Island St. đƫ Design the first ‘Autonomy Corridors’ đƫ Pedestrianize Charlebois St. đƫ Apply an aggressive trafc calming strategy in the neighbourhoods surrounding St. Jacques and St. Antoine Streets, as a follow-up of our community forum on the subject 6 Develop Safe, High Quality Bike Paths đƫ Establish a portrait of the bike network and adopt a maintenance plan IN SAINT-HENRI-EST– IN SAINT-PAUL–ÉMARD– PETITE-BOURGOGNE– SAINT-HENRI-OUEST: POINTE-SAINT-CHARLES– GRIFFINTOWN: đƫ Fight for better service on the đƫ Fight for an improvement to the 36 bus line by having more reliability of the 71 and 57 bus buses for more frequency lines in Point-Saint-Charles đƫ Fight for more BIXI stations in đƫ Adding bus lines in Grifntown Côte Saint-Paul and Ville-Émard, in order to adequately serve the in order to properly serve the heart of the neighbourhood centres of activity in those neighbourhoods đƫ Fight for more BIXI stations in Grifntown and the south Pointe-Saint-Charles in order to better serve those neighbourhoods Manage Parking Efficiently đƫ Adopt a parking strategy for Grifntown, long overdue from the city-centre (permits, trucks, reserved spaces, construction site, etc.) đƫ Analyze parking needs by sector according the presence of certain nuisance generators 7 Regulation of Rail Transport đƫ Fight for accountability from CN concerning transport of dangerous goods IN SAINT-HENRI-EST–PETITE-BOURGOGNE– POINTE-SAINT-CHARLES–GRIFFINTOWN: đƫ Continue watchdog role as stakeholder in the agreement between Nous et les trains and CN đƫ Fight to secure level-crossing for pedestrians and cyclists in Saint-Henri and Point Saint-Charles 8 2. AN ECONOMY FOR EVERYONE Create Locally-Based Christmas Markets DANS SAINT-HENRI-EST– IN SAINT-PAUL–ÉMARD– PETITE-BOURGOGNE– SAINT-HENRI-OUEST : POINTE-SAINT-CHARLES– GRIFFINTOWN : đƫ Create a Christmas Market on đƫ Create Christmas Markets at Monk Boulevard the Atwater Market and in Grifntown Actively Support Local Job Creation and Business đƫ Create a mixed working group on emerging businesses and sustainable niche markets to create jobs and stimulate the local economy đƫ Consolidate our ties and increase collaboration with the Sud-Ouest Board of Trade en Industry đƫ Promote the energence of a business incubator for young entrepreneurs stemming from diversity đƫ Continue to strive for the targets of the Equal Access to Employment Programme of the Sud-Ouest (PALÉE) in order to raise number of borough employees stemming from diversity đƫ Work closely with the RÉSO on special projects to promate local hiring đƫ Continue working with PME-MTL Grand Sud-Ouest to support business start-up and growth, namely social economy enterprises 9 10 IN SAINT-HENRI-EST– IN SAINT-PAUL–ÉMARD– PETITE-BOURGOGNE– SAINT-HENRI-OUEST: POINTE-SAINT-CHARLES– GRIFFINTOWN: đƫ Support the development of đƫ Focus on the business artist workshops, fab labs and Ecosystem of the Quartier de tech jobs in the Cabot sector l’innovation to attract new innovative businesses đƫ Create the first Artistic Free-Zone at 4000 Saint-Patrick St. Revitalize our Commercial Streets đƫ Continue our program of diversification subsidies IN SAINT-HENRI-EST– IN SAINT-PAUL–ÉMARD– PETITE-BOURGOGNE– SAINT-HENRI-OUEST: POINTE-SAINT-CHARLES– GRIFFINTOWN: đƫ Redesign and beautify Monk đƫ Beautify Center and Wellington Boulevard (signature entryway, streets redesign of intersections, greened sidewalk extensions, đƫ Support the Association of renewed street furniture, etc.) businesses and citizens to revitalize Centre street đƫ Pursue the Monk Blvd Revitalization Action Plan đƫ Finish the current renovation of Notre-Dame Street đƫ Revitalize de l’Église avenue 11 12 3. HOUSING AND COMMUNITY LIFE Buy land for the creation of community housing and services đƫ Put into place innovative methods to liberate land for the construction of social housing đƫ Favour the construction of diversified housing, particularly self-governing housing projects (eg. : Habitat pour l’humanité, UTILE student housing, Family Group initiatives, etc.) IN SAINT-HENRI-EST– IN SAINT-PAUL–ÉMARD– PETITE-BOURGOGNE– SAINT-HENRI-OUEST: POINTE-SAINT-CHARLES– GRIFFINTOWN: đƫ Construct a community and đƫ Build the 1295 Laprairie Project: leisure centre in Ville-Émard Community Centre with housing đƫ Purchase Lot # 5 for Social economy and community needs đƫ Build the Point Saint-Charles Seniors Pavillion 13 Protect Rentors and Rental Housing Stock đƫ Reinforce measures to counter the eviction of rentors đƫ Use the new powers of preemption the Metropolis Law to protect rental housing stock đƫ Study with the community sector for other measures to protect rental housing stock Verify the Sanitary Conditions of Housing đƫ Hire extra resources to ensure the salubrity of housing Support community groups đƫ Implement the Integrated Social Development Action Plan, whose priorities
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