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Notre-Dame-de-Grâce residents fear they’ve won a battle against a proposed Provigo supermarket and 10-storey seniors residence near Vendôme métro, but are destined to lose the war because developers are using a clause within the city charter to win approval from city council.

At the same time, they say they’re being excluded from a new urban planning vision being drawn up by their borough for de Maisonneuve Blvd. between Claremont Ave. and Décarie Blvd.

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“This is totally out of our hands, and it’s where we are living — it’s our neighbourhood,” said Jo-Anne Wemmers, a member of the Vendôme Village Association. “The lack of transparency is alarming.”

Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough mayor Russell Copeman said residents will have a say in any plans for de Maisonneuve Blvd., and public consultations will be held on the Provigo project.

Last year, the association quashed Provigo and developer Groupe Maurice’s efforts to obtain a zoning change allowing them to build a 10-storey seniors residence with a supermarket on the ground floor on a vacant lot at the corner of Ste-Catherine St. W. and de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. The project would include space donated for apartment suites for parents of children undergoing treatment at the hospital. The complex, Provigo officials said, would provide seniors homes and food shopping in a region lacking both, and promised deliveries would be made to an underground parking lot, reducing impacts.