In Merulla v. Ville de Pointe-Claire, 2023 QCCA 954, concerning the validity of the City of Pointe-Claire’s zoning by-law, the Quebec Court of Appeal confirmed last month that a municipality’s zoning by-law does not have to comply with its urb...
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On March 7, the City of Gatineau won its appeal in the case of Ville de Gatineau v. Stinson, 2023 QCCA 306. This decision overturned the Superior Court’s decision that repealed a resolution authorizing a minor exemption and ordered the destruction o...
Read MoreYou received your property assessment notice, and you notice that the assessment amount for your unit has increased (or decreased), the building classification for your unit is incorrect, the exemption from property taxes from which your property should b...
Read MoreThis month, in Sommet Prestige Canada inc. v. Ville de Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, the Superior Court rendered a decision concluding at the disguised expropriation of the Plaintiffs, while confirming the application of the Supreme Court of Canada’s ...
Read MoreIf you are a property owner in Montreal or in one of the 115 cities and municipalities that have presented a new assessment roll for 2023-2024-2025, you have just a little over two months left to file your requests for review. If you wish to file a reques...
Read MoreLast fall, in Ouellette v. Mascouche (City of) (2022 QCCS 4190), the Superior Court, rendered by the Honourable Charles Bienvenu, j.s.c., ruled on the unreasonableness of the City of Mascouche’s By-law 1153 on the use of weapons (hereinafter the ...
Read MoreThis month, the Superior Court rendered the decision SBFD inc. v. Ville de Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, 2023 QCCS 107, written by the Honourable France Bergeron, j.c.s, regarding a disguised expropriation in the City of Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures (herein...
Read MoreAs of late, newspaper columns, radio shows, and even office coffee breaks between colleagues can’t seem to get enough of the topic of skyrocketing property values in Quebec. In the last few weeks, property values have surged in Montreal and in 115 c...
Read MoreIn recent months, the interpretation of municipal and urban planning by-laws on the territory of the City of Montreal has been the subject of several judgments of the Superior Court, some of which correct the application made by public officials to the de...
Read MoreThe CMM (Greater Montreal’s Planning authority) adopted June 16, 2022, an interim control by-law 2022-97 concerning sectors with potential for conversion into green space or natural environment (hereinafter “Interim Control By-law“). It is a...
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