Julien H\u00e9nault-Ratelle, economic development spokesperson for the Official Opposition at Montr\u00e9al City Hall, and St\u00e9phanie Valenzuela, the Official Opposition\u2019s sustainable development spokesperson, held a press conference Sunday morning at the March\u00e9 Jean-Talon to present their demands for better support of public markets. Ensemble Montr\u00e9al councillors are calling for the city to invest several million dollars to revitalize these sites and their aging infrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMontr\u00e9al’s public markets are essential to the city’s economic and cultural vitality, but they\u2019re in dire need of a facelift<\/em>. These places have grown enormously in popularity since the pandemic, and if they are to remain attractive, we need to enhance the experience with 21st-century infrastructure<\/em>,\u201d said Julien H\u00e9nault-Ratelle, city councillor for the T\u00e9treaultville district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des march\u00e9s publics de Montr\u00e9al says these infrastructures, owned by the city, have a maintenance deficit of nearly $20 million. The Official Opposition believes that funding from the municipal administration on the scale of this deficit is essential in order to offer safe, turnkey facilities adapted to current needs. This would also permit the organization to carry out its 2021-2025 development plan, which defines its maintenance issues and goals, including sanitary facilities and maintenance of technical equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More and better support for different types of markets<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n H\u00e9nault-Ratelle and Valenzuela also called for an update to the By-law Concerning Public Markets, <\/em>which <\/em>was last revised in 1995. Since the last update, pop-up farmers’ markets and traditional neighbourhood markets have become more important compared to Montr\u00e9al’s three major public markets (Jean-Talon, Atwater and Maisonneuve). Incorporating these newer locations into the regulations now seems essential to reflect the new reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, Ensemble Montr\u00e9al proposed that the city mandate the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des march\u00e9s publics de Montr\u00e9al to create \u201can extended network of public markets\u201d that would include both pop-up farmers’ markets and traditional neighbourhood markets. In addition to promoting better coordination between the various public markets, this initiative would provide market operators with more support and resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStrategic investments, the creation of an extended Montr\u00e9al public markets network, and urban planning that takes the importance of these institutions to our neighbourhoods into account<\/em> will give our public markets the best possible conditions for growth<\/em>,\u201d insisted Darlington district city councillor St\u00e9phanie Valenzuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, the Official Opposition is asking that the Montr\u00e9al administration plan for new neighbourhood and pop-up farmers’ markets in neighbourhoods under development such as Namur-Hippodrome and the PPU des Faubourgs, as well as in neighbourhoods that currently have none.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Julien H\u00e9nault-Ratelle, economic development spokesperson for the Official Opposition at Montr\u00e9al City Hall, and St\u00e9phanie Valenzuela, the Official Opposition\u2019s sustainable development spokesperson, held a press conference Sunday morning at the March\u00e9 Jean-Talon to present their demands for better support of public markets. Ensemble Montr\u00e9al councillors…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12806,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"false","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,113,114],"tags":[],"district":[158,364,159,365,366,367,368,160,161,162,255,163,206,370,164,230,250,369,165],"class_list":["post-12795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-en","category-economic-development","category-public-services","district-ahuntsic-cartierville","district-anjou","district-cote-des-neiges-notre-dame-de-grace","district-lachine","district-lasalle","district-le-plateau-mont-royal","district-le-sud-ouest","district-lile-bizard-sainte-genevieve","district-mercier-hochelaga-maisonneuve","district-montreal-nord","district-outremont","district-pierrefonds-roxboro","district-riviere-des-prairies-pointe-aux-trembles","district-rosemont-la-petite-patrie","district-saint-laurent","district-saint-leonard","district-verdun","district-ville-marie","district-villeray-saint-michel-parc-extension"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n