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The For Sale notice advertises it as “land for sale for development” and as “prime land next to the l’Anse-à-l’Orme natural park” where the zoning is for “one-to-two-floor single-family units.”

Theoretically it can be developed

The owners are Placements Manchester Brighton Ltée, which is owned by the estate of Gaétan Gosselin, a member of the Mafia who was shot dead in 2013, and Gestion de Placements Uni-Dev Inc., which the Gazette reported in June held in trust shares in the land for a group of individuals and companies that included owners who were identified as members of the Mafia and family members of people identified as Mafia members.

The owners are also advertising for sale or for rent the remaining 2.3 million square feet of land, which is zoned by the province as agricultural and which is immediately south of the parcel that’s for sale for development. The asking rent on that parcel is $150,000 per year on a 20-year lease.

“I know there’s a sector that falls within a zone that allows for development, so then theoretically it can be developed,” city executive committee member Russell Copeman, who is responsible for housing and urban planning for the Coderre administration, said on Tuesday when asked to comment about the land being advertised for sale for development by its owners.

If developed, the property would have the only new housing inside a 180-hectare conservation zone. The borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro zoned part of the companies’ land near Gouin as residential more than a decade ago. In fact, the northern tip of the land is subdivided for 11 single-family dwellings, according to real-estate records.