{"id":880095,"date":"2026-09-02T00:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/880095\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T00:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:44:25","slug":"ville-marie-borough-plans-to-use-new-power-to-override-citizen-opposition-to-18-storey-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/880095\/","title":{"rendered":"Ville-Marie borough plans to use new power to override citizen opposition to 18-storey tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada and her Ensemble Montr\u00e9al party are planning to approve a zoning change on Tuesday evening to allow a 658-unit housing project that hundreds of Old Montreal residents blocked in a register earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project at 810 St-Antoine St. E., on the edge of Old Montreal, would reach up to 18 storeys on a site that\u2019s currently zoned for six storeys and that currently serves as a parking lot behind historic Gare Viger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April, 425 residents signed a register forcing a referendum on the project by developers Broccolini and Pur Immobilia. The borough withdrew the project rather than hold a referendum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada and her Ensemble Montr\u00e9al party are planning to approve a zoning change on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,1007,295,4520,66],"class_list":["post-880095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-construction","tag-environment","tag-housing","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}