Across the border

There's exciting things afoot in Old Chelsea, over the QC side. Chelsea Matters is a blog set up to discuss the controversial Chelsea Creek housing development. It doesn't look like it's been updated in a while, but that doesn't matter, local residents have been able to force modifications to the original plan:

OTTAWA-The developer of a controversial sustainable housing project in Old Chelsea presented a revised lower-density plan at an informational meeting Wednesday night, but residents are still unimpressed by the proposed project and worry about its effect on the community.

They may even be able to cause a municipal referrendum on the development:

After a Sept. 8 council meeting, residents of the zones of Chelsea that border on the development will have the opportunity to request a municipal referendum on the project.

There's a lesson here: communities don't have to lie down and take whatever developers decide to show down their throats.