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Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says she doesn’t want to use legal action to stop the $2-billion Royalmount development project from moving forward.

But if Plante can’t convince developers and Town of Mount Royal to modify Royalmount — a sprawling mix of stores, 6,000 housing units, a movie theatre and parking lots — she’ll use the city’s “legal levers” to impose drastic changes on Royalmount.

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“I’m not saying no, I’m saying it’s gotta be better,” said Plante, during a press conference at city hall Friday. “Right now, the social acceptability isn’t there and if it’s going to move forward, if these businesses are going to work, people need to want this project.

“That’s not what we see right now.”

Plante says she plans on meeting with developer Carbonleo, the Town of Mount Royal and the Quebec government within “days or weeks” to begin working on solutions. The Montreal mayor said she won’t try to force work on the project to halt until she gets a full picture of what has been done so far.