Motorists taking Lauzon Road as a bypass or a shortcut, seem to get confused with higher speeds on Lauzon Parkway and have a habit of speeding while taking this Lauzon Road shortcut, ignoring the fact they are driving 50 km/hrresidential street with bike riders, sidewalks, families and children walking.

This is a current problem now we face with just the current traffic, increasing the volume of cars exiting an apartment complex in a forward accelerating direction makes Lauzon Road more unsafe than it is now.

Sewers

We personally hadSS0,000 in water damage to our basement in2016. With an addition of an apartment complex, the chance of more basement flooding/ sewer backups increases. In the event of a heavy rain, the runoff from this paved parking lot at the apartment complex could create the same overwhelming scenario we experienced in 2016 with less volumes of rain being required since the water will be retained by the parking lots and dumped into the sewer.

The rain needs to be absorbed into the ground naturally, allowing grass and terrain to take its natural course as it does today. Adding an apartment complex will overload the sewer, adding single-family houses with lawns will manage the water.

It will just be a matter of time to realize how much sewage capacity this existing sewer can handle with adding 96 units from an apartment complex, and it will be realized when it’s too Iateand we experience damage. Who will be paying for that?

The sewer we were told flows to the Little_River plant, which directs the water past all the residential homes on Lauzon Road. The apartment complex would be the farthest away, so it would be the last to backup, but all the homes on Lauzon Road, including mine which was build in 1989 will be first in line for water backup into their homes. The homes would get the blunt of the damage while the apartment complex would be the contributing factor to possibly overloading the sewer system.

Since we have filed a claim in 2016, we are not able to secure insurance coverage to cover the contents of our basement now, we are only able to purchase a small amount of insurance due to the claim, which puts us at a higher risk of financial loss should water damage occur at our house resulting from overloading the sewer system. If and when it happens, I am sure we will face an increase in insurance premium, or not be offered any sewer/water damage coverage at all. Who will pay for the damage?

Single Family Dwellings& Property Values

We purchased our home in 1999, it offered a nice size lot, a little extra property, and our property is consistent with other single-family homes on Lauzon Road and we pay over $7,000 in yearly taxes.

The buyer of 3129 Lauzon purchased this residential property, and at the time it had a single house on the property with a small garage, it was the home of the "Lawnmower repairman", he fixed everyone’s broken / non-starting lawnmower when he passed, the property was purchased for $375,000.