Strike up an informal chat with residents of Côte-St-Luc and most will tell you they’re relatively content with the state of affairs in their quiet residential community.

But housing development plans that could add another 10,000 residents and a rise in antisemitic incidents nationally have raised concerns for some that their peaceful enclave could be facing worrisome changes.

“I was born and raised here, and I really can’t complain,” said Howard Riback, 66, sitting in his car at the Côte-St-Luc shopping centre. “I gotta tell you the truth, I still complain, like everybody.

Côte-St-Luc Rd. should be repaved again, he said. And the municipality could use some “updating.”

“But it’s still one of the greatest, safest places, and I travel the world regularly.”

Or as one twentysomething ha

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