Help shape your community and please consider attending.
The Westboro Community Association AGM will be at 7:00-9:00 pm on Tuesday September 22, 2009 at the Churchill Seniors Centre (345 Richmond Rd.)
It’s a perfect opportunity to renew your memberships and let the Board know about the neighborhood issues which are affecting you today. Is it traffic? Green space? Development? Safety?
Our guest speaker, Constable Maria Keene, will speak about the community safety plan.
Hope to see you there!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 7 – 9 p.m.
Dovercourt Recreational Centre, Assembly Hall,
411 Dovercourt Avenue, Ottawa
The City of Ottawa is completing the detailed design of Phase 1 or Churchill Avenue/Scott Street and intends to undertake the construction of Scott Street from Churchill Avenue to 130 m east of Winona Avenue starting in the Fall 2009 with completion end of November 2009 and construction of Churchill Avenue from Scott Street to Byron Avenue starting end of April 2010 with completion end of November 2010.
The work currently identified includes new curbs, sidewalks and road structure, rehabilitation of the watermain, sanitary sewers and storm sewers, surface drainage improvements, streetscaping and street lighting/traffic signal control modifications. The project also provides an opportunity to implement identified traffic calming measures, improvements to transit service, and other features deemed beneficial to the project.
The project was approved as a Schedule “B” project under the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment October 2000, as amended in 2007.
This project is partially funded by the Infrastructure Canada Infrastructure Stimulus Fund and the Province of Ontario.
The purpose of this open house is to present the detailed design, traffic management strategy and streetscape plan developed by the design team.
Representatives from the City, Consultant and the Ward Councillor will be available to discuss the project and answer your questions. Your input is an important part of the consultation process.
Please note, if you can’t make the meeting you can submit comments by Tuesday September 1, 2009
For more information and/or to submit comments, please contact:
Edson Donnelly, C.E.T.
Senior Project Manager
Novatech Engineering Consultants Ltd.
200-240 Michael Cowpland Drive
Ottawa, ON K2M 1P6
Telephone: 613-254-9643
Fax: 613-254-5867
E-mail: e.donnelly@novatech-eng.com
or
Todd Penfound, C.E.T.,
Project Manager
Construction Services (West)
City of Ottawa
100 Constellation Crescent, 6th Floor,
Ottawa, ON K2G 6J8
Phone: 613-580-2424, ext. 16005
Fax: 613-580-2587
E-mail: todd.penfound@ottawa.ca
All of you should have received a ‘consent’ form from the City regarding the rehabilitation of Tweedsmuir Ave in 2010. Work from Clare to Carling is being funded by Federal infrastructure $$.
THe water main from Clare north to Richmond Rd needs funding and when funded will probably take place in 2011.
A letter will be forthcoming shortly explaining what is being planned and their will be a meeting for residents of Tweedsmuir Ave also in the near future.
The design process is contingent on all of us giving access to the City and the contractor to check sewer connections etc. If you have questions contact the Proj Mgr at 613-580-2424, X27582 or Jim Carnegie at 613-293-6918.
Also watch here for updates including the date of the meeting.
Gary Ludington, Director WCA
… to the brave souls who ventured out into the rain to help with the WCA Clare Gardens Park clean up on Saturday!
The WCA unveiled some preliminary plans for the new park and we will be hosting a second public consultation in the next couple of weeks.
One thing that’s clear: there is more fundraising that needs to be done! If you’d like to put your name forward and help us drum up some much-needed funds, please let us know!
This just came in from the MP’s office:
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Paul Dewar will be hosting a consultation with community groups and residents in Ottawa-Centre on their ideas for improving cycling in Ottawa.
The purpose of the event is to gain insight from the public on their ideas and priorities around cycling in Ottawa so Paul can bring those ideas to the House of Commons. We’ll hear from a few key people on where things are at and where they could be, then brainstorm together as to where we need to go and how!
When: Saturday May 30, 2009, 10 am to 2 pm
Where: St. Giles Church, in the Glebe (north east corner of Bank St. & First Ave.). Enter Door on First Avenue.Why: Cycling offers enormous benefits for the community. It helps protect the environment, it improves health, and requires modest investments in infrastructure. It can also help address traffic congestion, and is a more inexpensive and much safer mode of transportation.
Building, maintaining and promoting better bicycle infrastructure in Ottawa would go a long way in encouraging a healthy life-style, at a time when people want to cut back on their greenhouse gas emissions and save money on their fuel costs. We need to help make it easier for people to get out of their cars and walk or bike.
It would also improve tourism in our city, helping Ottawa’s reputation as a cycling destination.
To register or for more information email Sara at: dewarp8@parl.gc.ca
We’ve had some unresolved technical issues with our post about the MPCA traffic meeting.
If you’re interested in this issue you should refer to the flyer MPCA is distributing, which describes the traffic issues and their proposal. Click here for a PDF version of this document.
The meeting is at Dovercourt Recreation Centre on Monday April 20, 2009, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
We are encouraging all Westboro residents to attend.
Thank you to everyone who came out to tonight’s meeting! It was a resounding success. Thank you again to Mothercraft for generously providing the meeting space.
As promised: here is the City of Ottawa Playground Replacement Questionnaire. Click here to download. It is an MS-Word file. We’re asking all families who use Clare Gardens Park to fill it out.
The new playstructure to be installed this year will be for preschool age children (18 months to 5 years of age). It will replace the existing red playstructure. Recommendations for school age play equipment are welcome as we are planning for the long term.
Please note:
Thank you,
andrea
Your input is needed!
The Westboro Community Association is hosting a public consultation regarding Clare Gardens Park.
The City of Ottawa has set aside funds for a new play structure, and we need your feedback, especially if you use the park on the regular basis.
When: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday April 14, 2009
Where: Mothercraft Ottawa, 475 Evered Ave.
… from the City of Ottawa.
The Trees, Reforestation and Environmental Enhancement (TREE) Program is a four year initiative that aims to enhance the City of Ottawa’s urban and rural forests through the planting of 100,000 trees between 2007 and 2010. The TREE Program empowers Ottawa residents, businesses, community groups and schools to participate in planting trees to enhance and maintain the city’s forest cover and combat climate change.
There are a number of ways you can take part in the TREE Program … for more info check out the City of Ottawa website.
The Committee of Adjustment (CoA) meets regularly to hear applications for minor variances from the Zoning By-law. Typically one would think this would be for existing homes to make them legal or for an addition. We support infill but would hope that any new construction meets the current zoning and if it doesn’t the variance requested is truly ‘minor’.
On Jan 14th the CoA met to consider 4 applications from the area covered by the Westboro Community Association. One was on Highland Ave for which we had no comment. One was on Winona and we along with a neighbour were present to comment. Another was on Roosevelt and along with a couple of neighbours we were once again present to comment. A fourth we were unaware of was for a development on Edison near Princeton. This one was postponed for a future meeting as some questions regarding the building permit need to be answered as well as the impact on the property at the corner of Edison and Princeton.
The owners of the Roosevelt property wanted three variances in order to build 2 detached homes on a 66 foot wide lot that they wanted to split into 2. For a single detached home the lot frontage on Roosevelt is 40 feet, lot area is 360 sq m and height limit is 8M. One of the neighbours spoke against the application as did the WCA. We supported two of the variances, frontage and area, but could not support the 3rd which was an increase in height. The CoA agreed and asked the applicant to postpone their application to come up with a solution that would meet the height limit. They agreed and hopefully they will meet with the community before the next CoA meeting on Feb 4th. The architect who designed the two houses also designed the new ones across the street from Canadian Mothercraft which are on a narrower lot and required no variances.
The application for Winona was for more variances than we could count and more were added during the hearing. The CoA refused an application for this same address in 2008 and despite what is proposed in this application not much has changed. We along with several neighbours were opposed and we will post the CoA’s decision as soon as we know.
Gary Ludington
Planning Sub-committee
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