CBC development meeting next Tuesday

In the 1960s CBC decided that it needed a new Montreal headquarters. So it studied a variety of possibilities, including putting it on the near-virgin Nun's Island. But instead they opted to build on Dorchester just southwest of the downtown core and knocked down an entire neighbourhood so they could have ample parking for the facility. They're finally trying to advance on an old plan to build housing back up on that wasted space and next Tuesday (Nov 18, 7 pm 1325 Dorch. E 872-3568) they're hosting a yammerfest public  consultation thingy about the plan and that means sitting through various lunatics yelling about how we need more public housing in the city, which means that sucker taxpayers get to pay some random person's rent.
   If nothing else, you'll get to see the bizarre mockup of the proposed new neighbourhood where the new buildings are represented by flat panes of glass. Condos in that area have sold well so these should be in great demand and while living on frosted glass might seem a bit weird, the buildings will surely be an improvement over the concrete wasteland that sits there now.
   The current building will become housing or a hotel and the CBC offices will relocate to Papineau and Dorch. The surrounding housing will contain about 2,000 units.