Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:39:06 -0700
From: catherinecasserly@rogers.com
Subject: Burr oaks
If anyone is interested in having their very own burr oak, I have some 3 year old saplings for sale at $5 each. I can deliver them to you.
Catherine Casserly
Westboro Beach
613-729-4217
From our city councillor Katherine Hobbs’s mailing list http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e716e95bbc50cda804f90c666&id=066b5c0ab5 It’s in Westboro within walking distance (near the Legion, Dairy Queen and Piggy Market) so it’s worth mentioning here.
The City of Ottawa invites residents to have their say about the public art to be commissioned for the new Winston Place Plaza Development project.
The public can meet the four shortlisted artists and view their proposals for a new light sculpture for the plaza on:
Date: Wednesday, May 7
Time: 6 to 8 p.m.
Location: Churchill Seniors Centre, 345 Richmond Road, Ottawa
Comments from the public will help the Art Selection Committee choose the winning proposal.
The four shortlisted artists are:
· Adrian Gollner & Joanna Swim
· Andrew O’Malley
· Karen Phillips Curran & David Ivens
· Caleb Rampel & Cara Tierney
The City of Ottawa commissions professional artists’ works for display in public spaces from a percentage of funds set aside for municipal development projects. For more information, please call 3-1-1 (TTY: 613-580-2401), email publicartprogram@ottawa.ca or visit ottawa.ca
The City of Ottawa is developing Winston Place, a pedestrian space at the southern end of Winston Avenue in Westboro. The new plaza will see the inside turned outside with three zones along the space representing different rooms in a house. New ‘green walls’ will be installed for ivy to grow up over time adding colour and vibrancy to the space along with new seating areas and a specially commissioned light sculpture. Construction is scheduled to begin in early summer 2014 and be complete by the end of October 2014.
For more background on this, search the Ottawa City web site for Winston. The search results include this informative plan for the site:
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:52:53 -0400
From: Debra Huron <dhuron@sympatico.ca>
I used to think that Champlain Park was a quiet neighbourhood. Now, I think otherwise because I regularly hear the thunderous sounds of cars racing on the Parkway near our house (and possibly along Island Park Drive) throughout the darkest hours of the night.
Is this something that others in our neighbourhood are bothered by?
Today, I saw a report on CBC about a man in a town just west of Sudbury who was concerned about loud car noises at night. Here’s a link to the report, which features someone who had the courage to confront the people responsible for using vehicles as a weapon of audio warfare. Not many of us would be willing to do this. As an aside, I can’t say it makes me happy to know that the noise makers are exactly the sort of people I imagined they might be. The video has gone viral: http://bit.ly/1mSb6Sp
In the northern Ontario video, it seems the car had a defective muffler. Here in Ottawa, people are deliberately outfitting their cars to make noise.
Less than a week ago, I wrote a letter to Yasir Naqvi, our provincial representative at Queen’s Park, to ask what the Highway Safety Act is doing to prevent people from retrofitting their exhaust systems so they will create tremendous noise. I did this because one day last week, as I was walking to work at 8:30 a.m., a car driving up to a red light at Carleton Ave. and Scott St., fitted with double exhaust, was so loud that it could probably be heard three blocks away. As the car turned the corner onto Scott, the noise made me hang back. Unfortunately, there is no escaping noise unless we wear earplugs to walk the streets. We all become victims of the onslaught.
I know that he City of Ottawa has a noise by-law that applies after 11 p.m., but I do not think it will help me because I can’t chase down moving perpetrators at 3 a.m. What I might be able to do, in broad daylight, is take down the licence plate number of a car that I see–and hear–while on foot. Mr. Naqvi’s office has referred my letter to the Ministry of Transportation. I’ll let you know what the response is.
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Subject: Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for April 28
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:29:48 -0400
From: Andrew Milton <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>
Attached is the Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for April 28, 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 from the list may be sent to wellingtoncpc@gmail.com.
Eileen Reardon
Volunteer, Wellington Community Police Centre
(613) 236-1222 x5870
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 10:45:46 -0400
From: Debra Huron <dhuron@sympatico.ca>
I was reading the latest editon of Ottawa West News, when on page 37, I noticed the City of Ottawa ad that announces proposed zoning by-law amendments.
The one that caught my eye is this: “Amendments to the front and corner side yard setback requirements in Champlain Park to better reflect the existing setbacks…” The remainder of the notice specifies the streets to be affected by this zoning amendment.
A sincere thank you is in order, at least from this one resident of Champlain Park. I believe that the co-chairs of our community association have succeeded in doing something important in the fight against the onslaught of looming large buildings.
Debra Huron
Ottawa, Ontario
613 859-8049
http://www.debrahuron.com
From our city councillor’s mailing list: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e716e95bbc50cda804f90c666&id=6dbcfbe231
Did you know that there’s a $30 M plan to develop an Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards? In partnership with the Province of Ontario, we’re building a 45,000 square foot facility that will provide space to incubate and grow new businesses from the ground up in Ottawa, creating jobs and diversifying our economy.
This facility will welcome the greater community of Mechanicsville, Hintonburg and the whole City, with new facilities and community spaces, and provide amenities such as a new cafe.
The greater Bayview Yards area is set to become Ottawa’s next great urban neighbourhood, bringing homes and jobs to the junction of the Confederation Line LRT and the O-Train at Bayview Station. The Innovation Centre is just the first public facility which will anchor this exciting new area. This is all part of a community vision articulated in the Bayview Community Design Plan.
The details of this exciting plan will soon be presented, but you are invited for a sneak peak.
I hope to see you at Bayview Yards this Saturday.
Thanks,
Katherine Hobbs
This is an update to the previous post.
From: Cheryl Parrott <cheryl.vance@sympatico.ca>
Date: 22 April 2014 15:27
Subject: Pathway Safety Audit Apr 22 7:15pm meet at 170 Booth
We still need a few more volunteers to help with a Safety Audit of the Multi-Use Pathways on the north side of Scott and Albert streets and the proposed new multi-use pathway on the north side of Bayview Transitway Station – that will go through the Bayview Yards.
This audit is being done with the Women’s Initiatives for Safer Environments. (see attached).
The Pedestrian & Cycling Safety Audit done by RTG last year has still not been released despite repeated request. We do not know who did it, when or what criteria were used.
So we will do our own audits. The first is this safety audit.
Date: Thur Apr 24 – rain or shine
Time: 7:15pm to get instructions and audit forms
Audit start: about 8pm– when it is dark
7:15pm Meeting at 170 Booth ( at Albert) basement meeting room CCOC building.
This audit needs to be done in the dark. So it will start about 8pm. We will split into groups – 1 person will be the recorder. Please bring flashlights so the recorder can see what they are writing.
Group 1 – will look at the area for the proposed path from Bayview ( north of Scott)
Group 2 – will look at the area for the proposed path from the O-Train
Group 3 – will look at the multi-use path on the north side of Scott from Bayview to Holland
Group 4 – will look at the multi-use path on the north side of Albert from Bayview to Empress
If we have enough people we can split the area for group 3 & 4 into an A & B – so the walk is not so long.
Attached is information from WISE on criteria and the checklist.
Please let me know if you are coming if you have not already let me know.
Cheryl
cell 613-620-9453
Sorry if you get this more than once.
WISE Safety Audit Evaluation Criteria.pdf
WISE Community Safety Checklist 2011.pdf
WISEIFSE2014 Community Safety Audits Info Sheet.pdf
Subject: Fwd: Pathway Safety Audit Apr 24
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:22:30 -0400
From: Heather Pearl <hpearl2012@gmail.com>
I suggest that we post this request and poster on our web site. Many years ago I was involved in helping to make arrangements and review the report for a safety audit that was done for Tunney’s Pasture. A safety audit creates a rational basis for highlighting and correcting problems.
Heather
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From: Cheryl Parrott <cheryl.vance@sympatico.ca>
Date: 15 April 2014 17:55
Subject: Pathway Safety Audit Apr 24
We need volunteers to help with a Safety Audit of the Multi-Use Pathways on the north side of Scott and Albert streets and the proposed new multi-use pathway on the north side of Bayview Transitway Station – that will go through the Bayview Yards.
This audit is being done with the Women’s Initiatives for Safer Environments. (see attached).
The Pedestrian & Cycling Safety Audit done by RTG last year has still not been released despite repeated request. We do not know who did it, when or what criteria were used. So we will do our own audits. The first is this safety audit.
So I am looking for at least 12 women to help with this audit. Men are welcome too but we particularly want women. There will be a fair amount of walking for some of the areas.
Date: Thur Apr 24 – rain or shine
Time: 7:15pm to get instructions and audit forms
Audit start: about 8pm– when it is dark
7:15pm Meeting Place for instructions: to be determined.
This audit needs to be done in the dark. So it will start about 8pm. We will split into groups of 3 – 1 person will be the recorder. Please bring flashlights so the recorder can see what they are writing.
Group 1 – will look at the area for the proposed path from Bayview ( north of Scott)
Group 2 – will look at the area for the proposed path from the O-Train
Group 3 – will look at the multi-use path on the north side of Scott from Bayview to Holland
Group 4 – will look at the multi-use path on the north side of Albert from Bayview to Empress
If we have enough people we can split the area for group 3 & 4 into an A & B – so the walk is not so long.
I will send the info and evaluation criteria out once I know who is able to help.
Please reply if you are able to come and help.
Cheryl
Sorry if you get this more than once.
This is an addendum to the Update on Ottawa Mosque Site and Landscape Plans post.
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:51:27 +0000
From: CoChair1
Accompanying the approval of a site plan is a by-law amendment to allow commercial parking on the original mosque lands (about 22 spaces I believe). Everyone within 120 metres of the property will be receiving a written notice of this by-law when it proceeds to City Council.
There is a very long history related to commercial parking for Tunney’s Pasture employees at the Ottawa Mosque (which went on for many years). In a nutshell, we managed to have covenants put on their purchase of the new land (which was formerly leased from the federal government) to disallow commercial parking for a period of 20 years from the 2007 transaction date. However, the city regulations did allow them to request commercial parking on their previously owned much smaller lot, which they did, and which we agreed to (as the NW church had a similar small volume of commercial parking). This was a compromise, as a result of a lot of public process and negotiation which CPCA was involved with.
For more info on the Mosque site plan you can contact the City Planner as follows:
Douglas.James@ottawa.ca
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Subject: Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for April 14
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:23:06 -0400
From: Andrew Milton <wellingtoncpc@gmail.com>
Attached is the Neighbourhood Watch Bulletin for April 14, 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 removed from the list may be sent to wellingtoncpc@gmail.com.
Eileen Reardon
Volunteer, Wellington Community Police Centre
(613) 236-1222 x5870
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