During the municipal council meeting in May, the municipality of Lac-Simon submitted a proposal for a regulation concerning projects involving the Special Construction, Alteration or Occupancy of an Immovable (PPCMOI in French).
This type of regulation can have important impacts on the development and planning of our municipality. The stages of public information and approval are coming soon.
What is a PPCMOI?
The PPCMOI regulation allows a municipality to authorise, under certain conditions, a project that deviates from the current urban planning regulations.
This mechanism may serve to approve a project that does not comply with municipal regulations, while respecting the broad guidelines of the urban plan. It therefore makes it possible to evaluate certain projects on a case by case basis rather than simply applying the usual zoning rules.
Depending on the projects submitted, the PPCMOI could, for instance, make way for:
- projects with higher density;
- larger buildings;
- certain commercial uses in sectors where it is not normally allowed;
- short-term rentals in some sectors;
- projects that differ from the current developmental framework.
The procedure for adopting such a regulation includes a public consultation as well as a registration process, enabling eligible citizens to have their say.
The date of the public consultation has not yet been announced. We will send you this information as soon as it is available and we invite you to participate in order to obtain all the relevant information, ask questions and find out about the possible impacts of this regulation.
Until then, we invite you to participate in the municipal council meetings on June 5th and July 19th in order to ask the council members questions about the impacts of this new regulation.
The board of directors of the LSPA
Annie Drzymala
Alice Parkes
Lise Villeneuve
Diane Boisvert
Suzie Lamoureux
Elsa Dussault
