Jewish residents of Cote St. Luc were reported today to have Joined in a petition opposing re-zoning of a section of the area to permit building of a girl’s school by the Lubavitcher community.
Sponsors of the project, representing the Lubavitcher movement, have applied to Cote St. Luc officials for re-zoning for the projected school. It would provide a dormitory for 60 girls and classrooms for 300. The Beth Rivkan school for girls would move to the new premises.
The site for the proposed school is in an area currently zoned only for residential buildings. Under the law, the authorities could not approve any rezoning if more than 10 owners of property adjoining a site object. Organizers of the opposition claimed that more than 200 signatures have been obtained, most of them Jewish.
Those opposed to the projected school contend that the pupils would not be from the area of the school and that the building would not provide any benefit or service to residents of the area. For that reason, they contended, there would be no justification for removing from the Cote S. Luc tax tolls more than $300,000 of potential tax-paying property.
Another reason cited was that the children would have to be moved daily by bus to and from their homes to the school and that this would add considerably to the traffic congestion in the area. There is a new Catholic school and a new Jewish Peretz school in the area now.
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