Tunney’s Pasture Redevelopment Survey

Subject: Tunney’s Pasture redevelopment plans, history, update on current status and a survey
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:26:47 -0400
From: Heather Pearl

After years of silence, we may soon know more about the redevelopment proposals for Tunney’s Pasture.  Here is some history:

• Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) presented a draft plan to local community associations and the West Wellington BIA in 2012.
• The CAs and BIA responded that the site needed to be redeveloped as much more than an attractive employment campus.
• Our MP, Paul Dewar held a public meeting, attended by a large number of residents from the adjacent communities, to discuss what the Tunney’s Pasture Master Plan (TPMP) needed to address.
• The resulting TPMP Community Report (attached) was posted on Paul’s website.  In-house negotiations began, to which the CAs were not privy.

In 2013, PSPC held a public consultation to gather comments on their new, very different proposal, for a substantial mixed-use development, that responded to most of the issues raised in the TPMP Community Report.

• The new Tunney’s Pasture Master Plan was published in September 2014: http://ncc-website-2.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Tunneys-Pasture-Master-Planweb.pdf?mtime=20181227135014
• PSPC’s website, where updates will be published at some point, is here: https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/biens-property/pdpt-tpmp/index-eng.html
• Since 2014, it has been very quiet.

Current status:

• Jeff Leiper has regularly asked for updates, but has learned only that the 2014 TPMP is being, for the most part, followed.  Recently, he heard that more information should be coming soon.
• The Wellington Village CA (WVCA) recently heard from PSPC that more information may be available by late spring.

A survey:

• WV is inviting all interested residents of Champlain Park to respond to their survey questionnaire on the Tunney’s redevelopment plans.  The survey can be found at https://forms.gle/mEWU8BTBj2Rg3oZ6A

Their intent is to:

• Gather preliminary information on awareness, concerns, and priorities associated with the coming redevelopment.
• Gather information for a mailing list of keenly interested residents.
• Take the first step in a series of steps as they attempt to obtain more information, and participate in public consultation.

Based on the survey responses, they hope to form a small working group amongst neighbouring CAs to keep the ball rolling.

Please consider completing the short survey and staying current as this issue matures.  Whatever happens at Tunney’s Pasture has a direct impact on Champlain Park.

Heather

TPMP Community Report.pdf