CSL, Mo West mayors urge Agglomeration to buy Meadowbrook

While Ste. Anne De Bellevue mayor Bill Tierney objected to the Agglomeration annexing Woods No. 3 on his municipality's territory to the ever-expanding Anse à l'Orme regional park at the western tip of Montreal island, the mayors of Côte St. Luc and Montreal West were among those who voted in favour during an Agglomeration meeting in December. "I am also motivated by something a lot closer to home and something a lot more urgent, and that is the fate of the Meadowbrook Golf Course," said Stuart, noting that Groupe Pacifique, the land's owner, is still actively pursuing redevelopment of the site into a large housing project. "If the lungs of the West Island are in the area of the Anse à l'Orme … certainly Meadowbrook is 67 hectares right in the middle of a population of about 800,000 people," continued Stuart. "There is political will at all levels to do something about this and I would beg this chamber to seriously undertake to find the money to make a settlement with Groupe Pacifique to turn this into a park once and for all."

Stuart said he hoped the new Liberal MNA for NDG and Montreal West, Kathleen Weil, would "find the resources to do this. I think it's most important, though, that the political steps be taken to really try and get this started."

Housefather said, "I strongly encourage the executive committee member responsible for green spaces to look at ways in which we can make a deal to preserve Meadowbrook in its entirety as a park space for the benefit of all the residents of the island, because I think when you look at the areas surrounding it and the number of people that surround it, it really is the only green space in that area."