The project for a rooming house for rental at 435 Montée du Sourire, in Rouyn-Noranda, will finally see the light of day, but in a reduced format.
From eight bedrooms, the house will eventually increase to four, which will be available for rental, for the start of the 2024 school year.
The young couple who own the house had taken steps under the PPCMOI, a procedure to obtain the right to modify the town planning regulations in order to build the eight-bedroom house.
However, under pressure, the owner couple, Marie Audet and Vincent Racette, decided to cancel the entire procedure.
The reason is simple, some residents of the neighborhood did not want to see such a project happen at all.
The arrival of an undesirable neighborhood, the fear of seeing their neighborhood denatured, the fear of a loss of quality of life; it was too much.
The group crusaded against the project.
Their new four-bedroom project will comply with regulations and will not require any procedures with the City.
It should be mentioned that the group of citizens did not only want to demonstrate opposition to the developers, but, of course, also to the City and especially against the process of selection and recommendations of PPCMOI projects.
They denounce the commercialization of the densification of the rental stock.
All this, in the midst of a housing crisis.
