Atwater Library and Computer Centre

On May 27, 2025 Westmount City Council gave preliminary approval to a revised plan for rezoning to allow for high-rises by the Atwater Library. The following day the revised Lemay Plan-Westmount Southeast PPU was posted on the City’s website. Go HERE for the 92-page report. 

Below is the height restrictions diagram in the new document (page 54) with the addition of an arrow pointing to the Atwater Library.

As the diagram shows, a 20-storey building would be allowed on the corner lot (former McDonald’s) instead of the 25-storeys called for in the November report.  Plus, three more 20-storey buildings to the west on the south side of Ste-Catherine opposite Alexis-Nihon.  And a new tower (24 to 29 floors) at Alexis-Nihon.

Our understanding is that the legal effect of the decisions the Council made on Tuesday evening is that only minor changes are possible before the scheduled September vote to finalize rezoning.

The Atwater Library leadership has serious concerns and worries about this revised plan. We have advocated low-rise, human-scale densification, in accordance with the advice of the panel of experts we hosted on May 8, 2025. Four panelists made presentations that are on our YouTube channel.

For more info, go HERE for documents and details…

Let us help you make better use of digital technology for a whole range of needs.

Click HERE for our schedule of useful courses and workshops.

Our patient and well-qualified instructors will give you confidence and useful skills.

Our class sizes are small (maximum 8, average 4) and we have the latest in equipment.

Our volunteer-run Bookshop is open FOUR days a week – Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday – from 12 noon to 3:00 pm. We’re selling donated books, DVDs and CDs at bargain prices.

The Bookshop is located in the sous-sol near our Tupper Street entrances.

We welcome donations of books in good condition and ask donors to use our Tupper Street accessible entrance for deliveries.

Two or three times a month, usually on Wednesdays from 2:00 to 3:30 pm, we conduct live online information sessions with Q&A on a variety of topics, including the following:

TAX-FREE SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (TFSAs)
REGISTERED RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLANS (RRSPs)
INCOME TAX
LATE-LIFE LEGAL ISSUES
WILLS and MANDATES

Everyone is welcome and admission is free, thanks to funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage of the Government of Canada.

Go here for the schedule of upcoming events and for links to videos with helpful info about personal finances.

For more information about our Financial Literacy Program, please email lverge@atwaterlibrary.ca.

During the Spring and Fall of 2025, on our mezzanine on the top floor (Floor 1 by elevator) we have wonderful exhibition of watercolours of cats by artist Miriam Rosenstein.