{"id":2971,"date":"2019-03-14T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.petermcgill.org\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2019-03-14T13:14:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:14:59","slug":"notes-from-the-community-meeting-green-space-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.petermcgill.org\/en\/notes-from-the-community-meeting-green-space-in-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Community Meeting \u2013 Green Space in Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Tuesday, February 26th<\/sup>, 50 residents, organisations and elected representatives gathered to discuss the future school planned to be built on the Grey Nun\u2019s site, located on Concordia campus. While the Peter-McGill neighbourhood needs public schools, building on the Grey Nun\u2019s site may mean unnecessarily losing a large green space.<\/strong> While this space is not currently accessible to the public, there has been a concerted effort to open the area over the last several years.<\/p>

The evening began with a short presentation<\/a> about the general situation and main issues by our Director, St\u00e9phane Febbrari\u00a0 and My Peter-McGill Project Manager, Maryse Chapdelaine. This was followed by a presentation from David Genesse-Bolduc of the Commission scolaire de Montr\u00e9al (CSDM) and St\u00e9phanie Bellenger-Heng, the Ville-Marie School Commissioner to present their vision on the new Lab-\u00c9cole<\/a> to be built on the site. Their presentation is currently confidential.\u00a0<\/p>

Many questions with few answers<\/h2>

There were a lot of questions raised about the school project and space at the event that the CSDM was unable to answer at this time, including:<\/p>