Residents of townhouse development say they bought homes because of the surrounding greenspace, now it’s being destroyed [Video]

A group of residents in a Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue townhouse development say they thought they were living in a protected greenspace until bulldozers came in. Now they claim they bought something the builder couldn’t deliver.

Christina Rokakis says that she and her husband purchased a unit at the Terra development from Broccolini in 2020.

“We really fell in love with the greenery,” Rokakis said in an interview.

She said they even paid extra to be next to a forested field.

“So, we decided to pay $50,000 more expensive compared to another unit, because we were told there was protected greenery.”

However, bulldozers have been removing trees and flattening the ground to construct a parking lot for the aerospace company MDA, which is expanding next door.

According to Carina Fraschetti, Rokakis’s neighbour, residents were not warned about the construction.

“This was an absolute shock. All of a sudden, we see stakes in the …