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SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT

An Ambitious and

Thoughtful Vision

for Montréal’s

Largest Insular Park

Montréal, Canada

he Société du Parc Jean-
Drapeau is unveiling its 2020-
T2030 Conservation, Design and
Development Management Plan, the
culmination of more than three years of
in-depth work and a superb collective de consultation publique de Montréal strategy strives to return to the notion of
intelligence effort. The result is a plan (OCPM), in which more than 6,000 people a great and active, green and blue urban
which provides a projection into the participated. The vision shared by most of park that emphasizes its insular character.
future, a re-thinking of the Parc’s overall the participants centred around striking The proposed plan is aimed at
offer, and an enhancement of Parc users’ a balance between the Parc’s natural making Parc Jean-Drapeau a widely-
experience. and event-related components through known, iconic place and a calling card
The development of the management developments that highlight its historical for the city of Montréal, that is likely to
plan began with an extensive public features, while preserving and enhancing attract local and international visitors,
consultation conducted by the Office its inestimable natural environment. This not only because of the diversity of

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