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Grand Opening of Ottawa’s Largest Dog Run!

From Katherine Hobbs’s newsletter http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e716e95bbc50cda804f90c666&id=917129edb7

Aussi disponible en français.

You’re Invited

Grand Opening of Ottawa’s Largest Dog Run at Hampton Park

What: Opening of Ottawa’s largest dog run at Hampton Park

When: Monday, August 25th 7:30 – 8:30 a.m.

Where: Hampton Park, corner of Island Park Drive and Merivale Road

Along with Mayor Jim Watson, I would like to invite you to the opening of the largest dog run in Ottawa – 9,000 square metres. Dogs please bring your owners and make sure they are on their best behaviour. Cyclists and pedestrians are welcome to enjoy the new and improved multi-use pathway connecting Kirkwood Avenue to Island Park Drive. The first 50 to arrive will get a flashing pedestrian light suitable for dogs and humans alike.

Thanks,
Katherine Hobbs

Je vous invite

L’inauguration du plus grand enclos pour chiens d’Ottawa au parc Hampton

Quoi : L’inauguration du plus grand enclos pour chiens d’Ottawa au parc Hampton

Quand : le lundi 25 août de 7 h 30 à 8 h 30

Où : parc Hampton, à l’angle de la promenade Island Park et du chemin Merivale

Le maire Jim Watson et moi-même vous convions à l’inauguration du enclos pour chiens le plus grand d’Ottawa, avec ses 9 000 mètres carrés. Les chiens sont priés d’amener leur maître et de les surveiller. Les cyclistes et les piétons sont invités à utiliser le sentier polyvalent amélioré qui relie l’avenue Kirkwood à la promenade Island Park. Les 50 premiers arrivants recevront une lampe clignotante pour piétons, qui convient tout aussi bien aux chiens qu’aux humains.

Merci,
Katherine Hobbs

Municipal All Candidates Meeting at Champlain Park Fieldhouse – September 18

Please see the more recent post with updated meeting details, this one is obsolete.

Hi everyone: I now have confirmation from all of the candidates in the Municipal Election except Ellen Lougheed to participate in the All Candidates meeting at Champlain Park Fieldhouse at 149 Cowley Ave. near Clearview Ave. Island Park Community Association and Westboro Beach Community Association have confirmed their involvement. At this time, I am asking everyone involved in the Community Associations to invite your neighbours personally and through web sites, e-mails, Twitter etc. We would like a big turn out. I will contact you in the first week of September about any other details.

The event is at 7:30 pm on Thursday, September 18.

It should be a successful event!

Carol Arnason

Local Commercial Study Update

This is an update to a previously mentioned post.

Subj: Update – Local Commercial Study – City of Ottawa

Hello,

*please make sure that any reply is sent to Andrew.McCreight@ottawa.ca*

On behalf of Andrew McCreight (currently on vacation until Sept. 2), I wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that the website for the Zoning Study on Local Shops and Services (Local Commercial Study) has been updated following review of the online questionnaire and public comments received to date.

The update provides three new documents/links as follows:

· Questionnaire Results
o A summary of the results from the online questionnaire (Nov. 21 – Jan. 31)

· Candidate Sites and potential areas for rezoning
o A list of areas identified by questionnaire participants and location maps of candidate sites

· Potential Zoning Regulations
o Potential zoning regulations for two new zones that would permit commercial uses in residential areas.

Here are the links to the study website;
http://www.ottawa.ca/neighbourhoodstores
http://www.ottawa.ca/magasinsdequartier

The links included in the email below will bring you to the web-pages for the Local Commercial Study. Direct links (French and English) to the Consultation Update are attached below for your convenience:

http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public-consultations/zoning-study-local-shops-and-services-residential-neighbourhoods
http://ottawa.ca/fr/hotel-de-ville/consultations-publiques/etude-de-zonage-visant-les-boutiques-et-les-services-locaux

Members of the public and interested parties are encouraged to review the updates and to e-mail comments to Andrew.McCreight@ottawa.ca. Andrew is currently away on vacation returning September 2nd but will endeavour to respond to all comments.

Policy Development and Urban Design · City of Ottawa
110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1J1 · 613 580 2424 x28457

Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for 2014-08-11

This week’s topics:

  • Ottawa Neighbourhood Watch Executive Committee – Still here.

– Alex

—– Forwarded Message —–
Subject: Neighbourhood Watch Bulleting for August 11
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:18:35 -0400
From: Dawn Neilly <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>

Attached is the Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for August 11, 2014. Please feel free to pass it along to anyone who might be interested in reading it. Any comments, information or requests to be added to or deleted to the list may be sent to wellingtoncpc@gmail.com.

Eileen Reardon
Volunteer, Wellngton Community Police Centre
(613) 236-1222 x5870

NeighbourhoodWatch-2014-08-11.pdf

Toronto’s vision for mature, healthy trees

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:58:20 -0400
From: Debra Huron <dhuron@sympatico.ca>

This article from Friday’s Globe and Mail raises and probes into all the important questions around how cities can work to maintain and protect large, healthy trees. Toronto has a vision. It understands that most of the city’s healthy and mature trees are on private property (60 percent!). And it is working to ensure that damage to such trees does not happen willy-nilly as new housing and development occurs.

Here’s a link to the article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/will-torontos-ambitious-push-to-grow-its-urban-canopy-pay-off/article19976197/

Unfortunately, Forestry Services in Ottawa has a much less inspired view–no plans, no vision for how to protect mature and health trees, like the Champlain Oaks. It doesn’t even know what percentage of the urban canopy consists of large trees. This lack of vision is an issue worth raising during this fall’s municipal election campaign.

Are you signed up to receive updates from The Champlain Oaks? Click on Subscribe to the Project at http://www.champlainoaks.com/

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Debra Isabel Huron
Writing, editing, and training
to help you communicate more clearly

http://www.debrahuron.com

Follow me on Twitter @debraisabel

Telephone: 613-859-8049
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Garfield Clack Life Celebration – Saturday July 19

From Rolf Clackdoyle on Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:52:57 -0400:

Garfield Clack passed away in April of this year. He lived in the Champlain Park neighborhood for about 20 years. There will be a “celebration of life” (well, more like a “party”!) this Saturday July 19. Anybody who knew Garfield is welcome to join; we are aware that many of his immediate neighbors will be there.

If you knew Garfield and would like to come too, please send an email message to garfclack@gmail.com as soon as possible and we will send you some more details.

All the best,
Rolf and Karen. (Garfield’s son and daughter)

Champlain Park Front and Corner Side Yard Set-backs

See the previous post for details about the set-back zoning ammendments. There’s also a next post about what happened.

Subject: Zoning: Champlain Park Front and Corner Side Yard
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 01:01:09 +0000
From: CoChair1

Please see attachment for July 8 Planning Committee Agenda containing Item 15, Omnibus zoning amendments. The report includes proposed changes to Champlain Park Front and Corner Side Yard Set-back from the current 3 metres to 6 metres and 4.5 metres respectively. This change reflects the actual built form of the neighbourhood, and returns the set-backs to pre-2009 values, thus correcting an anomaly in the subzone specifications.

Champlain Park Front Yard Set Back 8 July 2014
Champlain Park Front Yard Set Back 8 July 2014.pdf

Community Representatives for Planning the O-Train Extension Wanted

Our councillor Katherine Hobbs has a newsletter item about requesting community input for the changes to the O-Train line. It’s going to stop at Gladstone (yay, better Little Italy and Theatre access) and go to the airport (I thought they’d decided not to go there) and beyond.

Her newsletter article is at http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e716e95bbc50cda804f90c666&id=d7bd5e5746

– Alex