Champlain Park’s AGM meeting! – 2013

Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA)

Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Date: Thursday October 17, 2013

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: Champlain Park Fieldhouse

The Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) is co-ordinated by a dedicated team who spend their volunteer time and energy focused on enhancing the lifestyle and quality of life for neighbours living in the Champlain Park community.

The CPCA provides information through our website and periodic newsletter, organizes meetings, events and social activities for various age groups, follows issues relevant to the neighbourhood and helps to foster a sense of community .

Everyone is welcome to come out for an interesting evening to find out what’s happening in our neighbourhood and to learn how to stay in touch for any future events and developments.

AGENDA

1. Approval of minutes of 2012 AGM
2. Committee Reports

Communications – Adrian Bradley (10 minutes)
Development – Duncan Bury (10 minutes)
Environment – Nick Xenos (10 minutes)
Q&A for all three committee reports (15 minutes)

3.     Financial Report – CoChair1 (5 minutes)
4.     Membership Report – Barbara Borylo-Gourdie (5 minutes)
5.     Upcoming Events – Carol Arnason (5 minutes)
6.     Update on the indoor and outdoor installation projects funded by the City of Ottawa – Debra Huron (10 minutes)
7.     Election of Executive for 2013-2014 ( 5 minutes)
8.     Guest speakers (30 minutes)

A history of the Cowley family – Christine Jackson
· Bringing the Cowley family alive – Dennis van Staalduinen
· Writing a History of Champlain Park – Update from Robert Grainger

9. Adjournment
10. Q & A session on guest speaker presentations

September 11 – Community Meeting for 153 Carleton Avenue Development Proposal

(153 Carleton Avenue is across from the park)

Date: Wed. Sept. 11
Time: 8 PM
Place: Champlain Park Fieldhouse

153 Carleton Image for Meeting Notice.jpeg
153-carleton-image-for-meeting-notice.pdf

Description from the architect (Jacques Hamel):

We are proposing a semi-detached building on a 47′ (14.30 m) wide lot. One of the units will have a garage, whereas the other one will have at grade parking in the front yard. Both are quite different from each other and will each have their own identity. They are two stories at the front with rooftop decks facing the park. Behind the deck is a third floor (comprising approximately one third of the 2nd floor area.)

Unit 1 lot area is 231 sm. and Unit 2 is 204 sm. Unit 1 is 2535 gsf (235.5 gsm), and Unit 2 is 2345 gsf (218 gsm). The proposal is to subdivide into unequal parcels (one is narrower than the other).

Agenda:

Architect Jacques Hamel will present the proposal.
Champlain Park Community Association executive members will then facilitate a discussion with the neighbours (after the architect leaves).

Our membership list now has voluntary e-mail addresses. We are sending this to the surrounding neighbours in a blind cc.

Your participation is important. Please reserve this date.

Community Association Development Committee Contacts:
CoChair1 champlainpark@gmail.com
Duncan Bury: la.db@sympatico.ca

Community Meeting for 153 Carleton Avenue Development Proposal – September 11th

(Semi-detached building on a 47′ (14.30 m) wide lot across from the park)
Date: Wed. Sept. 11
Time: 8 PM
Place: Champlain Park Fieldhouse

Agenda:

Architect Jacques Hamel will present the proposal.

Champlain Park Community Association executive members will then facilitate a discussion with the neighbours (after the architect leaves).

First Notice. Reserve this date. We do not have permission to distribute the plans at this time. The Development Committee will be meeting with the architect this week.

Community Association Development Committee Contacts.
CoChair1 champlainpark@gmail.com
Duncan Bury: la.db@sympatico.ca

121 Northwestern Meeting Notice – August 8

Champlain Park residents are invited to view and discuss the redevelopment proposal of this property with Novatech Engineering.

Location: Champlain Park Fieldhouse
Date: Thursday, August 8, 2013
Time: 7:30PM

Members of Champlain Park Community Association Executive will be attending this meeting.

An application has been filed with the Committee of Adjustment for consent to sever 121 Northwestern Avenue into two parcels to permit the construction of 2 adjoining units.

The double unit is effectively a 3 storey building with the basement/ 1st floor set somewhat into the sloped grade of the lot.

Each unit has a roof deck accessed by an enclosed stair well projection – on the northern unit to the rear of the dwelling and on the southern unit to the front.

The only variances required are for the front yard setbacks and reduced lot widths. The existing linden tree is proposed to be retained.

A detailed presentation will be given by representatives of Novatech Engineering followed by a question and answer session.

July 30th City Hall Meeting on Infill Development

Please see attached presentation (included in previous “Infill – Staff Response” message) from the City’s Planning Department regarding the City’s response to the OMB appeal of the Infill Zoning By-Law (appealed by members of the Development Community). The City is responding to an order of the OMB to review the By-Law.

The community associations and development community have been invited to the meeting described below on this topic. CoChair1 will attend on behalf of CPCA and Heather will attend as part of a Federation of Citizens’ Association working group on this topic.

As you remember, Planning Staff have responded to the OMB’s Order on the Infill By-law with a Zoning Strategy, which was presented in a Public Information Session on June 17^th and was adopted by Council on July 17^th. Staff now has a draft by-law to implement this strategy and we would like to consult on it with communities, and answer questions on how it would work.

We are arranging a meeting with the Appellants to the By-law and other interested parties on Tuesday, July 30^th from 10 am to 12 noon at the Billings Room (City Hall). This constitutes the second meeting that represents the City’s effort to consult and establish dialogue, to provide information on how staff proposes to respond to the OMB’s Order of March 8, 2013 and consult on the technical instruments that will implement that response and how to make them work well.

At this meeting, I would propose that we address the following:

The OMB’s letter of July 15^th 2013 (attached) giving direction to providing submissions on how the City proposes to accommodate the request for further dialogue in the context of the time extension requested to prepare a draft By-law
The direction advanced by staff in the Zoning Strategy adopted by Council on July 17^th and based on which staff is preparing a draft By-law
Consultation on how to make the By-law work to accomplish what Council wants it to accomplish

The format will be an open discussion with no presentation by staff. I will send the draft by-law and related material in advance to everyone, so that there is a chance to absorb and so the meeting can focus on the discussion that people want to have or questions that would need to be asked.

If there are other proposed items that people would like to add to the agenda, please let me know.

I realize that the timing is challenging – we are under an OMB deadline and I am hoping that everyone can be forgiving in that respect. Please let me know if you, or another member of your Community Association, can attend, and I will forward all details of the meeting.

Thanks,

Alain Miguelez, mcip, rpp
Program Manager, Zoning, Intensification and Neighbourhoods | Gestionnaire de programme, Zonage, Densification et Quartiers
Planning and Growth Management Dept. | Service de l’Urbanisme et de la Gestion de la croissance
City of Ottawa | Ville d’Ottawa
) 613.580.2424 +27617
: alain.miguelez@ottawa.ca þ www.ottawa.ca

Update: Summary of CPCA submission on 132 Cowley and plans

Re: 132 (130, 134, 136) Cowley Avenue Development Proposal

Applications for Consent and Minor Variances,

City of Ottawa, Committee of Adjustment, July 17, 2013

The owner of 132 Cowley Avenue, Marc Cléroux, has applied to the City’s Committee of Adjustment for minor variances for lot width and consents to subdivide the property into three separate parcels of land to allow the building of 3 detached dwellings. Approval of the consents and minor variance applications would allow a reduced lot width of 10.16m (30ft 4ins) and building balcony projections for each of the three new parcels.

The Committee of Adjustment, Committee Panel 1, will hear the application at its meeting of Wednesday July 17th starting at 1:00pm and will likely render its decision at that time.

The Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) has sent a letter to the Committee of Adjustment in support of the applications.

The CPCA met with the owner and his project designer, Jacques Hamel, on May 2^nd and at a community meeting of May 13^th, before the submission of these applications, to discuss the CPCA’s goals and objectives for this community and had the opportunity to review the proposal and plans. Based on these meetings and a review of the plans, the CPCA believes that this proposal represents development compatible with the goals and objectives of the Association and is in accordance with the City’s Official Plan and Infill Zoning By-law. We believe building 3 detached dwellings on this deeper lot (45.72m/150ft) is a good and better use of the land and more compatible with the existing street scape and neighbourhood character than introducing semi-detached development on this site.

Three detached units also offer design opportunities to reduce the bulk massing impact that has occurred with some of the semi-detached development that has recently taken place in the neighbourhood. The staggered setbacks of the detached dwellings (13.0m, 9.81m and 6.61m) meets the setback averaging provisions related to the adjoining properties to the north and south and provides for more room for soft landscaping.

A large mature oak occupies the northeast corner of the property and the CPCA has successfully negotiated and signed an agreement with the owner to protect the tree during construction and to ensure its long term health. The agreement is similar to one signed with the owner of 179 Carleton.

Assessed owners of adjoining properties are entitled to attend and speak to the Committee of Adjustment. If you would like to see a full set of plans showing the site, the unit floor plans and the building elevations or would like any further information:

Please contact Duncan Bury (613) 729-0499; la.db@sympatico.ca) or CoChair1 champlainpark@gmail.com

Copy of the plans which were filed with the City.

Copy of signed letter.

Infill – Staff response to OMB Interim Order

Duncan and CoChair1 of the CPCA Development Committee attended this presentation. There were a number of other community associations as well as development industry members there (including some that we have worked with). Many questions were asked. However, because this is before the OMB and the Divisional court, the presentation was for public information only and not for further input. Rather, a recommendation is being made by Council in response to an OMB order, and the OMB will make the final decisions.

Some highlights: The revised infill zoning by-law recommendation (in response to an OMB Decision based on an industry Appeal of the new by-law provisions) will be:

to extend the provisions to renovation of old dwellings, as well as to new infill,
to expand the comparison properties to five lots in all directions of the subject property,
and to refine the definition of “character” based on some defined parameters that have been identified

Further details are included in the presentation and report, so please read these.

Infill Phase II will focus on height, building envelope, rear and side yard set-backs and will not duplicate the parameters of Infill Phase I. Our Development Committee is participating in this new consultation and CoChair1 will be making a short presentation (in tandem with Carlington CA) at a workshop on June 24. Note that building height has been identified as an issue by a number of communities, and was also addressed at a talk by an urban planner at the Federation of Citizens’ Associations AGM. Height is one of the parameters that contribute to the “building envelope” which equates to building volume.

From: Alain.Miguelez@ottawa.ca
Subject: Infill – Staff response to OMB Interim Order
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:34:48 +0000

Good afternoon,

Yesterday evening staff held a public information session to present the outline of the recommended response to the OMB’s Interim Order of March 8^th 2013. Attached for your information is a PDF of the presentation, and below is a link to e-Agendas where you will find the staff report scheduled for next week’s Planning Committee.

http://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/agendaminutes/index_en.aspx

Please feel free to distribute to members of your associations that might have an interest.

Best regards,

Alain Miguelez, mcip, rpp
Program Manager, Zoning, Intensification and Neighbourhoods | Gestionnaire de programme, Zonage, Densification et Quartiers
Planning and Growth Management Dept. | Service de l’Urbanisme et de la Gestion de la croissance
City of Ottawa | Ville d’Ottawa
613.580.2424 +27617
alain.miguelez@ottawa.ca þ www.ottawa.ca

Infill I 2013-06-17.pdf

Ottawa Mosque Site and Landscape Plans

We have been notified that the previously approved site plan and landscape plan for the Ottawa Mosque on 251 Northwestern, which had lapsed due to lack of funds, will now go forward.
Part B on the landscape plan pertains to the new lands, which are not currently landscaped.
the plan is to landscape them now and also to build catch basins.
Since this was previously reviewed and approved, including by Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA), the City of Ottawa does not feel another public review is required.
However, at my request, they did allow our CPCA Development Committee to view it again, as it has been dormant since 2008.
The CPCA Development Committee thinks the attached landscape plan, which includes paving, parking space markings and plantings, including a variety of trees, will greatly enhance the site.

Site and Landscape Plans

CoChair1
Co-Chair
Champlain Park Community Association
on Behalf of the Development Committee

Notes from 132 Cowley Ave meeting – May 15, 2013

At the Monday evening meeting about the re-development proposal for 132 Cowley we were shown a slightly revised set of drawings – link provided below.

These new drawings move the northern most unit and the middle unit further back from the front property line to accommodate the tree and also revise the driveways to correct an earlier drafting error. Everything else remains the same.

Slightly revised drawings

Call for Canvassers – 2013 Membership Drive

Champlain Park Membership Drive

It’s that time again! This year, we need your help!

CANVASSERS are the core of our Community Association’s fundraising effort. Revenues collected from our annual membership drive enable a variety of activities in our community, including:

Contributing directly to your community’s well-being; and
Providing financial resources to the Development Fund.

This year, our Community Association needs 20 volunteers to help out with the membership drive. Our goal this year is to increase our Community Association memberships to 75 percent of all households.

Duties: Canvass approx. 20 homes on your street

Required: 1-2 hours of your time

High school students: Sign up to earn your volunteering credits

The 2013 Champlain Park Community Association Membership Drive begins May 25.

To volunteer as a canvasser please contact:

Barbara Borylo-Gourdie

phone: 613-722-6829;

email: bmbg@sympatico.ca