Category: City of Ottawa

Notices and other information from the City of Ottawa that is of relevance to our neighbourhood.

Urban Forest Plan Consultation – November 21

From: Urbantree/Arbreurbain <urbantree@ottawa.ca>
Date: 2016-10-24 12:42 GMT-04:00
Subject: You’re invited! Consultations on the draft Urban Forest Management Plan / Soyez de la partie! Consultations sur la version provisoire du Plan de gestion de la forêt urbaine

Urban Trees: Putting Down Roots for the Future

WE NEED YOUR INPUT!

Urban Forest Plan Tree.jpegPlease join us to discuss the draft Urban Forest Management Plan (UFMP). Your input is important and will help inform the final plan.

Please register for one of the three sessions offered:

Monday, November 21
1 to 4 p.m.
Council Chambers, Ottawa City Hall
110 Laurier Avenue West

Monday, November 21
6 to 9 p.m.
Council Chambers, Ottawa City Hall
110 Laurier Avenue West

Tuesday, November 22
6 to 9 p.m.
Council Chambers, Ottawa City Hall
110 Laurier Avenue West

Please register by November 16, 2016

Input will also be collected through an online survey. Once you have read the draft UFMP, please complete the Phase 2 Consultation Survey by November 30, 2016.

The City’s Urban Forest Management Plan is intended to provide strategic and technical guidance to achieve urban forest sustainability in Ottawa over the next 20 years. Following our well attended and very informative Input and Visioning Workshop one year ago, a draft UFMP has been developed and we are looking for your input. We hope that you will attend.

Questions

Martha Copestake
613-580-2424, extension 17922
martha.copestake@ottawa.ca
http://ottawa.ca/urbanforest
*Accessibility is an important consideration for the City of Ottawa. If you require special accommodation, please contact Martha Copestake no later than Monday, November 14, 2016.

Forêt urbaine: DES RACINES POUR L’AVENIR

NOUS SOLLICITONS VOS COMMENTAIRES!

Urban Forest Plan Tree.jpegVenez discuter de la version préliminaire du Plan de gestion de la forêt urbaine. Vos précieux commentaires nous aideront à rédiger la version définitive du plan.

Veuillez vous inscrire à l’une des trois séances suivantes:

Le lundi 21 novembre
De 13 h à 16 h
Salle du Conseil, hôtel de ville d’Ottawa
110, avenue Laurier Ouest

Le lundi 21 novembre
De 18 h à 21 h
Salle du Conseil, hôtel de ville d’Ottawa
110, avenue Laurier Ouest

Le mardi 22 novembre
De 18 h à 21 h
Salle du Conseil, hôtel de ville d’Ottawa
110, avenue Laurier Ouest

VEUILLEZ VOUS INSCRIRE D’ICI LE 16 novembre 2016.

Un sondage en ligne permettra aussi de recueillir des commentaires. Lisez la version préliminaire du Plan de gestion de la forêt urbaine, puis répondez au sondage consultatif (phase 2) d’ici le 30 novembre 2016.

Le Plan de gestion de la forêt urbaine de la Ville vise à définir une orientation stratégique et technique qui assurera la durabilité de la forêt urbaine d’Ottawa au cours des 20 prochaines années. Une version provisoire de ce plan a été élaborée après notre atelier de réflexion et de discussion très couru et informatif tenu il y a un an, et nous sollicitons maintenant vos commentaires. Nous espérons que vous serez des nôtres.

Questions

Martha Copestake
613-580-2424, extension 17922
martha.copestake@ottawa.ca
http://ottawa.ca/forêturbaine
* La Ville d’Ottawa accorde une grande importance à l’accessibilité. Si vous avez besoin de mesures d’adaptation particulières, veuillez communiquer avec Martha Copestake au plus tard le lundi 14 novembre 2016.

Update: Champlain Park – Park Land Expansion Proposal

Important:
Closing date for Councillor receiving your comments is October 31, 2016.

We would like to give a big thank-you to all those who made it to our best attended community meeting on September 27, 2016 with Councillor Jeff Leiper, discussing the proposed park land expansion within Champlain Park, involving the closure and conversion of a portion of Pontiac street.

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On the following Thursday and Friday after the meeting, Jeff did his own traffic survey of the traffic flow along the part of Pontiac Street in question. Below is a snippet of Jeff’s traffic survey counts which were published in his weekly Kitchissipi Ward Newsletter. For the complete article of Jeff’s observations, comments and counts regarding this proposal, please see his newsletter at: http://kitchissippiward.ca/content/update-potential-pontiac-closure

Traffic counts (snippet from Jeff’s Kitchissippi Ward Newsletter – October 1)
On Thursday morning, I did a count from 7:30 to 9:15 am.
On Pontiac westbound I observed:
From Northwestern: 9 vehicles, of which 8 had kids visible
From Carleton: 14 vehicles, of which 10 had kids visible and one bus
4 bikes
10 pedestrians
On Pontiac eastbound I observed:
One vehicle – a resident of the Keyworth/Cowley block
One vehicle from Cowley
12 vehicles from Keyworth, of which 4 were buses
7 vehicles from Patricia, of which 1 was a bus
33 bikes
6 pedestrians
On Friday, I was out from 3:15-5:05 and counted on Pontiac in the stretch we’re floating closing:
15 cars westbound that came from Northwestern
4 cars westbound that came from Carleton
17 cars eastbound from Cowley. My impression is that these were almost all Tunney’s parkers.
17 cars eastbound from Keyworth, including 7 that had a child visible in the car (my assumption is that these are pick-ups from the school), and 3 buses
10 cars eastbound from Patricia, including 6 that had a child visible in the car (again, I’m making an assumption of pick-ups)
2 bikes eastbound, and 15 bikes westbound
14 pedestrians eastbound, and 25 pedestrians westbound. As you might imagine, a very large number of these westbound pedestrians looked like they were headed to their car from Tunney’s Pasture.
As an observation, the school rush lasts for about 10 minutes immediately after the bell. Traffic is extremely light outside of that period.

Councillors next update
Jeff Leiper will be updating the Community on this proposal in a mid-November time-frame after he has received additional community comments and made further consultations.  Jeff has also done a preliminary discussion of the proposal with the City and he found there were no infrastructure issues and that there may be funding options available through grants.

October 31, 2016  – Closing date for receiving your comments
We strongly encouraged you to send your comments if you haven’t already done so before the closing date to: Councillor Jeff Leiper  Jeff.Leiper@Ottawa.ca

Review of Ontario Municipal Board – November 9

Subject: Review of Ontario Municipal Board
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 13:50:38 +0000
From: Yasir Naqvi, MPP (Constituency Office) <ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org>

Dear friends,

Thank you for your interest in the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB).

Along with you, I have long advocated for changes to OMB to ensure community-inspired development. I am proud that the Ontario government has undertaken a comprehensive review of how the OMB operates and its role in our province’s land-use planning system to help make it more efficient and more accessible to all communities.

As part of the review, our government is consulting the public on possible changes to the OMB that, if adopted, would:

  • Allow for more meaningful and affordable public participation;
  • Give more weight to local and provincial decisions and support alternative ways to settle disputes;
  • Bring fewer municipal and provincial decisions to the OMB; and,
  • Support clearer and more predictable decision-making.

As the MPP for Ottawa Centre, I have often heard from residents that the OMB must be reformed so that it can better serve the unique needs of our community and incorporate better land-use planning principles. To provide your ideas, I invite you to be a part of the Ottawa consultation on Wednesday, November 9, 2016.

Consultation details:

Wednesday, November 9, 2016
5pm – 9:30pm
St. Anthony’s Banquet Hall
523 St. Anthony Street, Ottawa (off Preston Street)

The changes under consideration would improve everyday life for Ontarians by providing easier public access to information about the OMB and its processes through an expanded Citizen Liaison Office. The proposed changes would more clearly specify what can be appealed to the OMB, in addition to the mechanisms through which the OMB hears these appeals.

For more information on how to participate, and to review the public consultation document, please visit http://www.ontario.ca/OMBreview.

Please feel free to distribute this consultation information widely. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact my office at ynaqvi.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org or 613-722-6414.

Sincerely,

Yasir

Yasir Naqvi, MPP
Ottawa Centre

LRT Stage 2 Presentation Materials Available

If you’re interested in maps and station plans of where the O-Train will go, more of them are now available online. Though for our neighbourhood, it’s pretty well settled that it will be in the existing transitway trench beside Scott street.

– Alex

From: Stage2 – Etape2 <stage2@ottawa.ca>
Date: October 4, 2016 at 11:48 AM
Subject: Stage 2 LRT September 2016 Public Consultation presentations now available online/Les présentations des consultations publiques de septembre 2016 sur l’Étape 2 du TLR maintenant accessibles en ligne

Thank you for joining us at the Stage 2 Light Rail Transit (LRT) September 2016 public consultations. For your reference, please go to the link below to access or review the presentation materials.

Click on this link September 2016 Public Consultations. Scroll down to the end of the page and you will see the September 2016 Public Consultations header with links to each presentation.

Regards,

The Stage 2 Team

Merci de vous être joint à nous lors des consultations publiques de septembre 2016 sur l’Étape 2 du Train léger sur rail (TLR). Veuillez aller au lien ci-dessous pour accéder aux présentations.

Cliquez sur ce lien : Consultations publiques de septembre 2016. Allez au bas de la page, où vous verrez la rubrique Consultations publiques septembre 2016, qui s’accompagne de liens donnant accès à chaque présentation.

Recevez nos salutations distinguées.

L’équipe de l’Étape 2

Ottawa BudgetSpeak 2016 – October 13

Invitation

You are invited to BudgetSpeak, a consultation focused on moving resident-identified priorities forward.

When: Oct. 13, 2016, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Jean Piggott Place, Ottawa City Hall

Please RSVP

In preparation for both the 2015 and 2016 Budgets, City Councillors Chernushenko, Fleury, Leiper, McKenney and Nussbaum hosted a series of consultations with residents to get a better sense of their priorities – and the funding options – for the municipal budget. The hundreds of residents who participated in these sessions consistently ranked transit affordability, provision of social services and safe mobility for all modes of travel as their top priorities.

With these priorities identified, this year’s consultation will focus on the “how” instead of the “what”. It will consist of short plenary presentations on all three issues, roundtable discussions and advice from residents to their councillors on what specific initiatives could usefully be considered for inclusion in our 2017 municipal budget deliberations at committee and council.

Quick links

More information – http://www.tobinussbaum.ca/news-events-actualites-evenements/updates-mises-a-jour/budgetspeak-2016

To Register – https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/budgetspeak-2016-parlonsbudget-2016-tickets-28006939510?utm_term=eventurl_text

Feel free to contact our office if you require any further information.

Thanks,

Lisa Baird

Councillor’s Assistant
Office of Councillor Jeff Leiper, Kitchissippi Ward/Ward 15
City of Ottawa – Ville d’Ottawa
t: 613-580-2485
e: lisa.baird@ottawa.ca

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There are also larger posters available:
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Info Session on LRT Tunnel near Cleary – September 14

From: stage2@ottawa.ca
Subject: Public Information Session – Richmond Corridor Tunnel Update/Séance d’information publique -Mise à jour sur le tunnel du couloir Richmond
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:30:43 +0000

We would like to invite you to attend a public information session on the tunnel portion of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) line between Cleary Avenue and Woodroffe Avenue. We will be reviewing options for adjusting the current alignment under Richmond Road, including potential construction considerations on Byron Avenue and the Bryon Linear Park. Your feedback will be important in helping balance the importance we put on all three of these areas. The meeting is on September 14th, 2016, at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The purpose of this information session is to engage and obtain input from property owners, businesses and residents affected by this potential change. Stakeholder feedback and information will then be included in a forthcoming report that will go to the City’s Finance and Economic Development Committee (FEDCO) and City Council for final approval.

What: Public Information Session – Richmond Corridor Tunnel Update
When: Wednesday September 14th, 2016 at 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Presentation at 7:00 p.m.)
Where: Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 1000 Byron Avenue

For more information, please feel free to contact the Stage 2 Project Office at stage2@ottawa.ca.

Nous aimerions vous inviter à une séance d’information publique sur le tronçon en tunnel de la ligne de train léger sur rail (TLR) entre les avenues Cleary et Woodroffe. Nous examinerons les façons de rectifier le tracé actuel sous le chemin Richmond, y compris les détails d’aménagement possibles sur l’avenue Byron et le parc linéaire Byron. Vos commentaires contribueront grandement à équilibrer l’importance accordée à ces trois secteurs. La réunion aura lieu le 14 septembre 2016 à l’église orthodoxe ukrainienne.

Cette séance d’information vise à attirer l’attention des résidents, des entreprises et des propriétaires fonciers concernés par l’éventuelle modification du tracé et à obtenir leurs commentaires à cet égard. Les rétroactions et les observations des parties concernées seront ensuite consignées dans un prochain rapport qui sera présenté au Comité des finances et du développement économique de la Ville (CFDÉ), puis au Conseil municipal aux fins d’approbation finale.

Quoi : séance d’information publique – Mise à jour sur le tunnel du couloir Richmond
Quand : le mercredi 14 septembre 2016, de 18 h à 21 h
Où : église orthodoxe ukrainienne, 1000, avenue Byron

Pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le Bureau de l’Étape 2 du projet du TLR, à etape2@ottawa.ca.

Open House for 190 Richmond Road – September 13

From: Andrew.McCreight@ottawa.ca
Subject: Open House – September 13 – 190 Richmond proposal
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:46:29 +0000

Hello,

Please note that Councillor Leiper and the applicant for 190 Richmond Road (Retirement Home proposal) have scheduled an Open House meeting on Tuesday September 13th.

All members of the public are invited to attend. Here are the details.

Tuesday September 13, 2016
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Van Lang Field House
29 Van Lang Pvt

Draft AGENDA

6:30-7:00 Open house
7:00 – 7:10 Councillor Leiper introduction followed by applicant, 5 minute presentation.
7:10-7:20 Milieu presentation on feedback to date (from web tool)
7:20 – 7:40 Q + A
7:40-8:30 Open house & discussion
Details are also available on http://www.kitchissippiward.ca/

I will be attending the meeting and look forward to the discussion, as well as meeting individuals in person whom have submitted comments.

Best regards,
Andrew

Andrew McCreight MCIP RPP
Planner/Urbaniste
Urban Services Branch/Services Urbain
Development Review/Examen des demandes d’aménagement
Planning, Infrastructure and Economic Development
Services de planification, d’infrastructure et de développement économique
110 Laurier Ave West | 4th Floor | Ottawa, ON | K1P 1J1
City of Ottawa | Ville d’Ottawa
ext./poste 22568
http://ottawa.ca/planning / http://ottawa.ca/urbanisme

Kitchissippi Ward Forum – September 18

As described on https://www.facebook.com/events/875614069237500/:

Doesn’t it feel like just yesterday that we were sitting around Hilson Public School, talking about what we were excited to do this summer? Now the leaves are starting to fall and you can feel the crisp air start to come in.

Please bring a blanket and come out to our next Kitchissippi Ward Forum to connect with your City Councillor Jeff Leiper and members of your community!

Updates on:

  • LRT
  • Planning and Development
  • Info about tree preservation
  • Community events
  • and much more!

Agenda:
9:00 – 9:30: Jeff welcomes everyone, provides his updates, followed by brief staff updates
9:30 – 10:30: Community Association and BIA networking
10:30 – 11:30: Group Q + A
11:30 – Noon: Special guest speaker Guy Laflamme, executive director at Ottawa 2017 Bureau

We hope to see you there!

*This is an outdoor event, please dress accordingly. Washrooms are available. Chairs are also available. In the event of rain, the event will move indoors to the field house.*

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