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Mayor Valérie Plante’s administration promised Tuesday to hold public consultations before moving forward on an “audacious vision” for a car-free neighbourhood on the former Blue Bonnets racetrack.

“There will be a consultation before the development of the Hippodrôme site,” Éric Alan Caldwell, the executive committee member responsible for urban planning, mobility and public consultation, said Tuesday during the monthly city council meeting.

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The 8,000-unit development will “change the paradigm” for development, by no longer “thinking of neighbourhoods as we thought of them half a century ago, when everything was based on access for cars,” Caldwell said in answer to a question by opposition housing critic Karine Boivin-Roy.

Boivin-Roy, the councillor for Louis-Riel in the Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district, asked whether citizens would be consulted on the plan after Plante revealed in a radio interview last week that the long-awaited housing project at Décarie Blvd. and Jean-Talon St. W. would be car-free.