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City Hall To Save Afterhours?
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Purple_Lee replied on Sun Jun 29, 2003 @ 11:29pm |
 Coolness: 239335 | Opponents of the proposed limitations on afterhours clubs were left reeling last week when fewer than the necessary residents signed a registry that would force a referendum on the issue. That means, at first glance, that the borough of Ville-Marie is about to crack down hard on the post-drinking hours nightlife.
But not so fast: earlier last week, Mayor Gérald Tremblay introduced proposed legislation that would reorganize the way downtown is managed and give city hall more power at the expense of the Ville-Marie borough (the borough is now controlled by councillors from the opposition Vision Montreal party). And while it's not known what immediate effect this will have on the afterhours legislation, its opponents are watching city politics more closely than ever. "Above and beyond partisan politics," says Yanic Viau, a member of CORRAV, a group supporting the afterhours, "the message the city is sending out is that downtown can't be managed like a suburb." Viau says that while the coalition of groups opposing the afterhours legislation is in a period of "strategic reflection," they will only enter into further dialogue with the city "on certain conditions: first, the borough must have at least some sort of minimal acknowledgement that there is a right to a nightlife, and second, that the afterhours have a right to exist." And while borough councillor Robert Laramée, who first introduced the legislation, said he was interested in continuing a dialogue with opposition groups, Viau says he and others remain skeptical about Laramée's true intentions. - Montreal Mirror, Vol.19, #2, p. 5 ( June 26 - July 2) Pure garbage!!!! Lee |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» djAmalgam replied on Sun Jun 29, 2003 @ 11:35pm |
 Coolness: 106505 | "the way downtown is managed and give city hall more power at the expense of the Ville-Marie borough "
Downtown ain't managed by the "ville marie borough" :P It's managed by some people who's "career's" depend on the existence of such venues. I'm not worried, i'm sure we'll get our clubs. |
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