2023-11-13 17:07:50
A mother who lives in the Montreal-North borough is currently fighting to regain access to her private parking lot.
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“I have been fighting to get my parking back for seven years, and nothing is moving,” rages Myriam Labbé.
The mother has lived in the borough since 2010. Six years later, she made her dream come true by becoming the owner of a duplex.
There is parking on the front lot of her new residence, and she intends to take advantage of it. Unfortunately for her, the City had other plans.
A few months following moving in, Ms. Labbé received a notice from the borough. There will be major work carried out on his street: the repair of all the sidewalks. But she was far from suspecting that the lowering which allows her to access her parking lot would disappear. The new sidewalk is in fact 10 centimeters high, the normal height for a pedestrian sidewalk.
Montreal-North resident Myriam Labbé expresses her frustration very well during Benoit Dutrizac’s podcast, available on the audio and video platform QUB radio :
“I have a neighbor who was there during the work, the workers wanted to remove his access too,” says Ms. Labbé. He persisted, and they belittled him. During that time, I was at work. I mightn’t intervene.”
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Since then, it has been a real obstacle course for the resident of Montreal North. In addition to the numerous calls made to the administration, she attended three city council meetings. The last time was last Tuesday. Exasperated, Ms. Labbé insists on getting her message across at all costs. Mayor Christine Black then decided to have her microphone cut. There will be no continuation of this visit either.
An acquired right?
The certificate of location held by Myriam Labbé is clear: the parking lot was indeed there in 2009. She herself adds, the former owners resided at this address for more than 20 years, and the location was there. So, it is difficult to know when this space was actually developed. The borough might perhaps answer this question, but for the last seven years, we have simply explained that the new municipal by-law prohibits new locations like this.
Despite everything, several residences in the neighborhood have parking lots similar to that of Ms. Labbé, which adds to her frustration.
“Why was mine condemned, and not the others,” she asks. I want an electric car, how am I going to plug it in?”
This situation is reminiscent of these 11 owners in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district. Last January, they were victims of a fifty-year-old regulation which prohibits parking in front of residences without a garage. The situation was revealed by the journalist from Journal Francis Pilon.
The office of Mayor Valérie Plante responded that it is “clear that a reflection on the regulation is necessary […] particularly regarding owners of electric vehicles.”
For Myriam Labbé, this reflection has still not been made.
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