Dorval issues ban on new high-density housing projects
Global News
A temporary moratorium has been issued in Dorval on all new multi-level residential projects as the city works on a new master urban plan.
Dorval is the latest city in the West Island to issue a temporary moratorium on new high-density housing projects.
The mayor wants to draw up a new urban master plan before any new permits are issued.
The interim ban on new development, however, doesn’t apply to single-family homes, duplexes or triplexes. Any permits that have already been issued will be honoured.
Otherwise, all new requests for permits to build multi-level housing units will have to wait.
“We feel that we need to take control of what is going on and not let developers dictate what happens,” Marc Doret, the mayor of Dorval, told Global News.
In addition to the freeze on new housing starts, a temporary ban has also been issued on any kind of development, including commercial and industrial in a triangular area East of the Trudeau Airport, bordered by Côte-de-Liesse Road, Highway 20 and 55th Avenue.
”A developer couldn’t sneak in quickly, present a plan and get a project going very quickly. We just didn’t want that to happen,” Doret said.
The freeze on new permits comes on the heels of a similar moratorium issued by neighbouring Pointe-Claire last month.
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