Amended draft to the site of the former convent of St. Mary of the Angels

REAL ESTATE. In latency, the residential project on the site of the former convent of Saint Mary of the Angels on the 60th Street, will soon switch plans on site. With a new developer at the helm, Novalia it resurfaces in a slightly modified form, for which the City of Québec has given the green light recently adopted an amendment to the original Regulation to enable implementation.

In February 2013, the municipal government authorized, by regulation, the establishment of a residential facility with an area of ​​upper floor 25,000 square meters and a major health facility on the site of the old property Convent of 60th Street. The developer, Norplex then proposed five residential buildings of six to nine floors, with outside parking areas.

Now in the hands of Novalia, the residential project in its renewed version now reduced the number of three buildings, which substantially retain the same number of stories that originally, for a total of 350 apartments. The outside parking lots are abandoned in favor of a fully underground parking for each building. Adding a screen exposed to the limit allows, finally, the physical separation between the new building and the adjacent residential area.

As for the major health facility, which will invest the premises of the former convent, it will take the stage of the permit application for the exact nature of its activities.

Plans to site

Yet this is precisely the next stage awaits Novalia, the amendment to the law having been adopted at the last City Council. About the beginning of the project, "it should go fast," suggested that the sponsor, like a handful of citizens attended the public consultation that preceded the council meeting.

"This is a great project that will harmonize the sector, which will bring a dynamic to the neighborhood." 

occasion, preliminary sketches were submitted, but Novalia preferred to wait for the final plans before sharing them with the Charlesbourg Express.

Certainly, for the Borough President and Councillor of St. Rodrigue district, Vincent Dufresne, "this is a great project that will harmonize the sector, which will bring a dynamic to the neighborhood. To densification in already densified area is good. And we are happy to listen to the promoter, "he responded by reference to the adjustments of the updated version.

Questions about the impact of traffic made by present citizens, Vincent Dufresne reported that a study was conducted in the days of the old project, and that the implications were considered minor, at least at times peak. "The people who will live there, [...] it will be either retired or people who work on different schedules," he said.

In short

25,000 square meters of floor area

3 residential buildings

29 meters maximum height of the main building

350 homes

45%: minimum percentage of green area

1 butte-screen is the limit

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