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Community Association Board Meeting Agenda – October 15

Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) Board Meeting

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
7:00 PM via Google Meet
Everybody Welcome

Agenda items are limited to 5 minutes unless otherwise requested.

This is a meeting of the CPCA Board of Directors. Champlain Park Community members are welcome to attend, if you would like to propose items for discussion, to ask questions, to organize an event or activity, or to learn more about the issues affecting our community.

Activities and Issues must fall within our community plan/areas of operation in order to be addressed by the CPCA. You can write to the webmaster champlainpark@gmail.com to request a link to join the meeting and/or to connect you with the appropriate Board member for information and guidance including how to submit a Community Project Proposal.

  1. Approval of Minutes for September 10 2024 meeting.
  2. Interim Motions
  3. Community Members Agenda Items
    Cut-through Traffic Problems, Bill Baggs has a few words to say.
  4. AGM Planning: Everyone 30 minutes
    • Finalize agenda – order of guests (Rosaline, Jeff) and reports
    • Assign Time Limits for Presentation, Q&A/discussion
    • Require time keeper as agenda is very full
    • CPCA Board review minutes of last AGM before distributing to members
    • Election Slate and Advertisement; Running the Election
      Everyone is running for their current positions plus Alex and Bill as Members at Large; this is before election call Speaker/Web (Propose to list Task/Role for each Member at Large in brackets)
    • Techie Stuff for Hybrid meeting
    • Confirm who does what: opening the fieldhouse, setting up chairs, etc.
    • Secretary tasks: Collate materials for distribution (Electronic & Paper)
    • Confirming Attendee Membership to Vote and Run for Election
  5. Finance, Membership, Risk Management: Lynne 15 minutes
  6. Planning, Zoning, Environmental Issues: Heather
  7. Park and Fieldhouse Improvement: Joanne 15 minutes
    • Update on Champlain Park new amenities survey
      Timing/Survey logistic options and help (e.g. survey testers)
    • Review proposed survey questions (Joanne/Sarah will circulate ahead of time)
    • Decide on striking Parks Committee/How to proceed
    • Questions from Finance/Risk Management viewpoint
  8. Update on the Tunney’s Pasture redevelopment transportation planning and CPG Stream 1 meetings Joanne – 10 minutes
  9. Report on a drop-in meeting with Jeff Leiper about putting a stop sign on Clearview and Cowley. Richard – 2 minutes
  10. Other business
  11. Next Meeting

Agenda last updated on October 15 at 2:33pm. Please contact the secretary to add topics.

Hallowe’en Fun Run – October 27

via Todd Shannon’s post on Facebook…

Back by popular demand (at least in our household…), please SAVE THE DATE for the 11th Annual Champlain Park Hallowe’en Fun Run!

Start and finish line will be on the east side of the Fieldhouse, near the swings. We’ll get started at 9:30 with the ~1 mile (1.6km) route, followed by the ~800m route.

A few volunteers would be much appreciated to be on-course marshals so that no one gets lost in the haunted woods…

A $10 donation is encouraged (but not mandatory) to participate, with proceeds this year directly benefiting Achilles Canada, which provides opportunities and support for those who are blind or visually impaired to enjoy running and other sports.

Any questions, please ask in the comments on Facebook.

Otherwise, hope to see you on the 27th, and looking forward to all of the great costumes!
[Poster for 2024 Haloween Fun Run]

Workshops on New Zoning Continue + Maps

A reminder from the city zoning people…

Fall In-Person New Zoning By-law Workshops Continue

The new Zoning By-law project continues to host in-person workshops. It’s an opportunity to discuss the Zoning By-law review with members of the zoning team.

There are three workshops remaining, each starting at 6:30 pm until 8:00 pm.

  • October 15 – Fred Barrett Arena
  • October 22 – City Hall
  • November 5 – Confederation Education Centre

What to Expect:

  • Display Board Exhibition – Dive into the basics of zoning and key concepts. This is your chance to ask questions and get informed.
  • Roundtable Discussions – Engage in intensive discussions on various topics with planners and fellow residents.
  • No Registration Required – Simply show up and participate.

New 3D Digital Twin Map

We are thrilled to introduce a groundbreaking tool as part of the new Zoning By-law review: the 3D Digital Twin Map.

This innovative map is designed to transform how residents and planners visualize zoning changes across Ottawa. With the 3D Digital Twin Map, users can view both the proposed new Zoning By-law zoning and the current (2008-250) Zoning By-law zoning. This dual-view feature ensures that you can easily compare and understand the proposed changes.

Time-Line of Traffic Problems

From Heather…

Island Park Drive and surrounding communities have for many years been expected to accommodate large volumes of commuter traffic, which pollutes our neighbourhoods and endangers our kids. The RCMP cannot keep up with the volume of cut-through traffic making illegal turns onto IPD. Vehicles are backed up to the Scott/Northwestern intersection. From Clearview, some turn and speed south looking for other exits to IPD.

In 1996 and again in 2014, local governments and communities suggested solutions. Several were implemented, but nothing was done to fix the main problem, that two parkways are being used as commuter routes.

In September 2024, the NCC invited local communities to discuss proposed new parkways guidelines.

The CPCA submitted the attached comments to the NCC, c.c. councillor Jeff Leiper.
Continue reading “Time-Line of Traffic Problems” →

Upcoming Community Association Meetings

We have two meetings in the queue:

  1. Tuesday, October 15, 7 pm. The usual board meeting on Google Meet, mostly to talk about the AGM (Annual General Meeting) and planning for guest speakers and elections. The agenda is being collected (write to the secretary to add items), but if anyone wants to talk about it, likely there will be something about the cut-through traffic filling the neighbourhood with cars (behind the scenes, various submissions have been made to the city and NCC). We’ll do another post when the agenda is ready, and as usual write to us if you want a link to the meeting.
  2. Wednesday, November 20, 7 pm. Annual General Meeting with guests Jeff Leiper (our city councillor) and (prompted by all these zoning changes allowing way more units per lot) architect Rosaline Hill on “BuildingIN: A low-rise solution for infill housing”. We’ll be trying to have a hybrid meeting – online and in the field house. If you want to vote, you’ll need a membership, but you are free to drop in without one.

Traffic Overflow in the Neighbourhood

Excess traffic is annoying people in the neighbourhood, leading some to take action (there are a couple of rather hot posts in the Champlain Park Facebook Group, where rather than blocking the cars, submitting a request for service to the police was suggested). Our city councillor Jeff Leiper has written about it, here’s his text from https://kitchissippiward.ca/2024/10/07/cut-through-bridge-traffic-woes/

Cut-through bridge traffic woes

October 7, 2024

Good evening, Kitchissippi.

Residents of Westboro Beach and Champlain Park who live on streets like Clearview and Lanark have been writing to me tonight to let me know they’ve had another bad weekend. Cut-through traffic trying to reach the bridge, especially starting in mid-afternoon, has been rough this summer, backing up for blocks, most recently on Clearview and yesterday for a period as far as Northwestern. Residents have a hard time getting in or out of their driveways, traffic is idling and they’re fed up.
Continue reading “Traffic Overflow in the Neighbourhood” →

Ping-Pong Club and Tables?

We were thinking of fun things to do with our neighbours, and the idea of ping-pong or table tennis came up.

If you have a spare table, could we use it? We think we could fit two of them in the field house and store them away in the back room between sessions.

[Fieldhouse with a couple of AI generated ping pong tables]

A ping-pong club could work, if there’s enough interest. There already is an Ottawa wide club, universities, the RA Centre, and the larger community centres have tables.

Perhaps the city could build us an outdoor table, but that would need to be tough enough to survive winter and vandals, and thus be very expensive! Some do exist, this is one in Optomiste Park in Vanier.

[Optomiste Park Vanie Ping Pong Table, via Google Maps]

So, any interest in a ping-pong club and are there any spare tables? If you want to play or have a table, please drop a note to chparkevents@yahoo.com or come to the next games night to talk with the rest of us.