[waterloowarrior]

new thread for minor project updates...
just a coincidence that these first updates are all retirement residences :)

Alavida Lifestyle's building in CitiPlace (Colonnade and Prince of Wales area) is well underway

http://www.alavidalifestyles.com/uploads/ravines/ravines_%20february_brick.jpg

http://www.alavidalifestyles.com/uploads/ravines/ravines_%20february.jpg
http://www.alavidalifestyles.com/our-communities/properties/ravines/news_and_events.aspx





Retirement home received approval - Hunt Club just west of Airport Parkway (http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2008/02-26/ACS2008-PTE-PLA-0048.htm)

(2 storeys)

http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2008/02-26/ACS2008-PTE-PLA-0048_files/image004.jpg



a 'tower' received approval ... going on Hunt Club just west of Bank. 11 storeys, another retirement residence. (http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2008/02-26/ACS2008-PTE-PLA-0051.htm)

http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2008/02-26/ACS2008-PTE-PLA-0051_files/image002.jpg

The owner is Masterpiece Living, but they don't have information for this project yet on their website (http://www.masterpieceliving.ca/home.html)

[clynnog]

new thread for minor project updates...
just a coincidence that these first updates are all retirement residences :)


Claridge have started construction on a tower 2 phase retirement home on Eagleson south of Fernbank and there is also a large high end retirement home being built on the south side of Campeau between Eagleson and Castle Frank/Kanata Avenue.

Looks like there will be no shortage of places for our kids to put us when we get old.

[waterloowarrior]

another seniors development on hunt club (700 hunt club) (http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2008/05-13/ACS2008-PTE-PLA-0096.htm)

This is an application for a site-specific exception to the former City of Ottawa Hunt Club Secondary Plan designation for that portion of the property located in the former City of Ottawa and a Zoning By-law amendment to permit the construction of a retirement residence consisting of a five-storey, 110-unit residential building and 27, single-storey townhouses for seniors.

http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2008/05-13/ACS2008-PTE-PLA-0096_files/image002.jpg

[adam-machiavelli]

Do I see Wisteria Lane on that map? :p

[clynnog]

another seniors development on hunt club (700 hunt club) (http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2008/05-13/ACS2008-PTE-PLA-0096.htm)

to permit the construction of a retirement residence consisting of a five-storey, 110-unit residential building and 27, single-storey townhouses for seniors.


For the 27 TH's, I didn't think you could specify that they would be for seniors. The marketing can be to seniors, but you can't exclude non-seniors.

It looks like Ottawa is in a seniors boom. This building, plus another one on the south side of Hunt Club somewhere, one on the north side near South Keys, a new one in Bridlewood by Claridge u/c, a big apartment tower near Castlefrank/Campeau in Kanata, plus many more.

If the market does crash for these places, they could be converted to regular apartments.

[bradnixon]

Do I see Wisteria Lane on that map? :p

It's Wisteria Crescent, but yes :)

I remember going into the sales centre when they were still building and laughing about that. I think they were using it as a selling feature....

[harls]

Why do all Seniors' complexes look the same? those pics in ww's first post look exactly like the complexes going up in Gatineau.

[d_jeffrey]

Why do all Seniors' complexes look the same? those pics in ww's first post look exactly like the complexes going up in Gatineau.

Because they all have cataracts.

[clynnog]

Why do all Seniors' complexes look the same? those pics in ww's first post look exactly like the complexes going up in Gatineau.

One architect in Ottawa has designed a lot of seniors developments for the more prominent seniors developers. I know of separate properties in different municipalities where the architect used the exact same plans and replicated them from one municipality to another. The theory being if it worked in Municipality X it can work and be applicable in Municipality Y.

[waterloowarrior]

May 2008 Update on the Ravines.

As you can see, the brick is on the building and it is looking good. You will have to take our word for it that progress is really being made on the interior of the building as well.

Call now while the suite selection is still good and plan your move for the fall. Who knows what kind of winter awaits us in 2008/2009!



http://www.alavidalifestyles.com/uploads/activities/bricks%20corrected.jpg




http://www.alavidalifestyles.com/our-communities/properties/ravines/news_and_events.aspx

[waterloowarrior]

masterpiece hunt club (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__6727EM)
(this was mentioned earlier on in this thread)
site plan (http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%20Referencing_Site%20Plan%20Application_Image%20Reference_Site_Plan_D07-12-08-0043.PDF)
http://wwuploads.googlepages.com/masterpiecehuntclub.jpg]

(http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%20Referencing_Site%20Plan%20Application_Image%20Reference_Site_Plan_D07-12-08-0043.PDF)
________________________

1701 Kilborn Avenue (http://apps104.ottawa.ca/emap?emapver=lite&LAT=45.388506&LON=-75.65038&featname=1701+Kilborn+Avenue&lang=en) - (The Regional Group)... dev. application page (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__671474)
http://wwuploads.googlepages.com/playfair.jpg

_____________________________________________


Industrial and Alta Vista - 9 storey rental apt. or retirement residence (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__67YCWO) (Claridge) | site plan (http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%20Referencing_Site%20Plan%20Application_Image%20Reference_Site_Plan_D07-12-08-0035.PDF)


_____________________________________

13 storey office building and mixed use concept - (http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%20Referencing_Zoning%20Bylaw%20Amendment%20Application_Image%20Reference_Planning_Rationale_D02-02-08-0024.PDF)Russell and St Laurent | dev. application page (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__67UW56)




feel free to copy any of this info and make new threads

[waterloowarrior]

here's the site plan for 700 hunt club (http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%20Referencing_Site%20Plan%20Application_Image%20Reference_Site_Plan_D07-12-08-0103.PDF)

application page (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__6APHMP)

[clynnog]

1701 Kilborn Avenue (http://apps104.ottawa.ca/emap?emapver=lite&LAT=45.388506&LON=-75.65038&featname=1701+Kilborn+Avenue&lang=en) - (The Regional Group)... dev. application page (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__671474)
http://wwuploads.googlepages.com/playfair.jpg


I know that this Kilborn/Playfair site is causing all sorts of palpitations in the local community and there are signs on people's lawns....no more high rises etc'.

[c_speed3108]

Tower Crane in Orleans:

There appears to be a new Tower Crane around Tenth Line and the North Service Rd (Jeanne D'arc)

Anyone have any idea what that is for????

[bradnixon]

Tower Crane in Orleans:

There appears to be a new Tower Crane around Tenth Line and the North Service Rd (Jeanne D'arc)

Anyone have any idea what that is for????

If it's closer to Trim it's probably for Petrie's Landing: http://www.petrieslanding.ca/

[c_speed3108]

If it's closer to Trim it's probably for Petrie's Landing: http://www.petrieslanding.ca/

Nope...I know Petrie's Landing...it is definitely not Petrie's Landing. It is not as tall and the crane is a different colour....

[c_speed3108]

From CTV:

Funding for family health hub in Orleans

Updated: Sat May. 31 2008 18:14:31

ctvottawa.ca

The Ontario government unveiled a major initiative that it hopes will solve the growing doctor shortage in Orleans with teamwork.

The announcement was for funding towards a family health hub in Ontario on Saturday.

"This visionary Orleans health hub will bring together several healthcare services under one roof," said Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman.

"Services including family health care, urgent care services and a wide range of diagnostic and treatment services including MRI and dialysis will be provided."

At the centre of the hub will be the first of 50 new family health teams for the province, a form of one-stop-shopping for patients who might not have a doctor right now.

"If it grows like the one in Rockland - it's only been three years and they have captured 15,000 orphan patients - that should do us a lot of good in the near future," said Phil McNeely, Liberal MPP for Ottawa-Orleans.

Like many Ontario communities, Orleans is suffering from a doctor shortage which means thousands of orphan patients. Last month, the Orleans Urgent Care Clinic was forced to cut back its hours due to a shortage of doctors.

This new plan offers some relief.

The Ontario government is also giving $300,000 annually to the Orleans clinic to support nursing services.

A $100,000 capital planning grant is being provided to Montfort Hospital to develop a detailed proposal and business case including where to build the hub and how much it will cost. The goal is to be serving Orleans patients by 2011.

[harls]

Some detailed plans for the Plateau area in Gatineau

Concept 1:

http://www.ville.gatineau.qc.ca/pdf/consultations_publiques/amenagement_coeur_plateau2/presentation_concept_1.pdf

Concept 2:

http://www.ville.gatineau.qc.ca/pdf/consultations_publiques/amenagement_coeur_plateau2/presentation_concept_2.pdf

[c_speed3108]

Orleans Town Centre development: Save the Silo?

This is visible on Google earth. It lines up almost perfectly with the Centrum and the never built road just west of tenth line. Maybe they could do a traffic circle around it or something????

http://www.eastottawa.ca/article-219475-Save-Centrum-silo-residents-say.html



http://www.eastottawa.ca/imgs/dynamique/articles/gros/p04_silo_1.jpg

Save Centrum silo, residents say
Article online since June 4th 2008, 15:06


An Orléans man and a former east-end resident say the city should consider the historical value of an unused silo on Centrum Boulevard before opting to tear it down.
The silo, which sits just east of the Orléans Town Centre site, was brought to the attention of Orléans Coun. Bob Monette by a constituent complaining of youth partying on the property.

Though subsequent visits by Monette and the local community police officer did not corroborate reports of needles and other drug paraphernalia on the site, both said in early May they found liquor bottles.

Monette also said he would seek to have the silo torn down since it appeared to be an illicit gathering place for youth.

In a subsequent e-mail to The Star, copied to Monette, Denis Vinette of Orléans responded by saying the silo was once a part of a farm operated by his grandfather and great uncle.

"That silo represents a link not only to the history of Orléans, and the small French community of less than 5,000 that lived here over 40 years ago, but for me it's a link to my own personal family history," he wrote. "Instead of looking at the silo as an eyesore, why not treat it as a piece of our heritage and protect it? As part of any future Orléans Town Centre re-development, why not consider including it in any plans and recognizing Orléans rich farming history?"

Bruce Scharf, who grew up in Vanier and now lives in west Quebec, says the city should consider not only maintaining the silo but also transforming the whole site into an historical attraction.

A very similar project has already been completed in Vankleek Hill, Scharf says, adding the Orléans silo has even greater potential for such a use since it is better located than the Vankleek Hill site, with superior views of the surrounding area.

"It represents history," says Scharf. "It would do something to me if it was gone because of a whim or knee-jerk reaction."

Vinette said his parents still live adjacent to the property and don't have any serious concerns.

"My parents spend beautiful summer nights out on their patio, and have never heard nor seen any large, loud groupings of kids partying, drinking or using drugs. (I'm) not sure where the complainant got their information, but it is inaccurate. Even the local community police constable couldn't report that issues have been reported and (said) there is no cause for alarm."

Monette responded by saying he would ask city staff to disregard his earlier inquiries into how the property's owners, the Orléans Town Centre Partnership, might be compelled to demolish the structure.

"I will send a request to the owners and ask if there’s any possible way that they can incorporate keeping this silo for heritage aspect and if they do agree I will request that it becomes better secured until the site can be developed.”

Monette also said he sympathized with Vinette's feelings, having seen a property that once belonged to members of his own family — known as Golden Valley Ranch — expropriated by the NCC for use as public greenspace.

Monette added that potential safety issues with the structure still remain foremost in his mind.

"The silo will also have to become a lot safer and cleaned up," he said.

-- By Steve Fouchard

[Mille Sabords]

:previous: Rural heritage-ism in the suburbs. Touching.

[Acajack]

Some detailed plans for the Plateau area in Gatineau

Concept 1:

http://www.ville.gatineau.qc.ca/pdf/consultations_publiques/amenagement_coeur_plateau2/presentation_concept_1.pdf

Concept 2:

http://www.ville.gatineau.qc.ca/pdf/consultations_publiques/amenagement_coeur_plateau2/presentation_concept_2.pdf

Ça serait très bien mais je ne leur fais pas confiance. Ça prendrait de la vision et du courage pour réaliser de tels quartiers. J'espère sincèrement qu'ils vont faire un menteur de moi!

[Radster]

This will be 2 blocks away from my condo. I really hope it gets built, so I can walk over to a local farmer's market on weekends to buy fresh fruit and veggies. The park, library, shops, condos etc will make it a vibrant area once built. I believe they are still on schedule and construction is set to start in 2009, I am crossing my fingers for no delays!

[Cre47]

http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/360483327557276.php

[c_speed3108]

A second hotel for Orleans....geeze construction boom town (boom burb?)

I wonder where they will put it? Town Centre perhaps?

[waterloowarrior]

Montreal and Shefford (near 174 exit) 7 storey retirement home (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__6B168M)

[Bucolic Urbanity]

Montreal and Shefford (near 174 exit) 7 storey retirement home (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__6B168M)

Ottawa seems to be getting a glut of retirement home applications these days....for the life of me I can't think what is at this corner at the present time...it is near the interchange with 174/Montreal Road and there is commercial to the north further down the hill etc.

[Cre47]

The most recent towers in the south end (completed in 2006-07) Riverside near Uplands

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=rjqwwm8pryfn&style=b&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=32951557&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

[waterloowarrior]

edit: New proposal see http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=162184




render of riverside/hunt club office tower.. although signs for development on this property have been up for years IIRC

PREMIER OFFICE SITERIVERSIDE AT HUNT CLUB ON THE BANKS OF THE RIDEAU RIVER OTTAWA, ONTARIO


http://www.taggart.ca/images/newDev_map_riverside.gif


http://www.taggart.ca/images/newDev_riverside_1_large.jpg


Phased Development of 650,000 sq. ft. Riverside Office Park will be at the centre of Ottawa’s ever-expanding business community. Its unique location will allow easy access to Ottawa’s International Airport for air travel within Canada or to the far corners of the world. U.S. customs pre-clearance is now available.

Connect by automobile to highway 416 to the west for connections to the 401 (Toronto) or onto the Queensway for Highway 417 and connections to Montreal and Quebec.

With local OC Transpo routes and the transit station nearby, a great many employees working at Riverside Office Park will use public transit to and from their work environment.

[waterloowarrior]

here's the Kanata West concept plan

http://www.kanatawest.com/Quickstart/ImageLib/KWCP.jpg


http://www.kanatawest.com/Quickstart/ImageLib/DemonstrationPlan.jpg

[Beatrix]

Tower Crane in Orleans:

There appears to be a new Tower Crane around Tenth Line and the North Service Rd (Jeanne D'arc)

Anyone have any idea what that is for????

I was going to ask the same thing.

It seems pretty substantial (around 8-10 floors).

[Cre47]

I was going to ask the same thing.

It seems pretty substantial (around 8-10 floors).

There is something under construction in that area according to this late Spring bird's eye view shot but not sure if it's what you are referring to.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=rkff7m8q74yw&style=b&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=32807362&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

[drizzo_613]

^^
Drove by today and it looks about done.

[waterloowarrior]

Kanata West (http://www.kanatawest.com/)

http://wwuploads.googlepages.com/kanataWest.jpg

This state-of-the-art, master-planned park will be designed as a mixed-use site, equally capable of handling both business office and industrial applications.


145 total acres of Development Land
Direct highway 417 exposure and access
Tract sizes ranging from 5 to 50+ acres
All underground utilities including: municipal water and sewer lines, high-pressure natural gas lines, and advanced fiber optic lines
Carefully designed covenants that protect property owners
Available turnkey packages
Well-suited for any number of business opportunities

[waterloowarrior]

________________________

1701 Kilborn Avenue (http://apps104.ottawa.ca/emap?emapver=lite&LAT=45.388506&LON=-75.65038&featname=1701+Kilborn+Avenue&lang=en) - (The Regional Group)... dev. application page (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__671474)
http://wwuploads.googlepages.com/playfair.jpg

_____________________________________________



update from Peter Hume's website

January 2009 Update

I am pleased to advise you that Playfair Residents Limited has withdrawn their zoning application. They have agreed that any new development on the Playfair property will have to respect the existing zoning on the site. [14 storeys]
I understand that the owner will soon be bringing forward a site plan application that will propose a development that respects the existing zoning.

The zoning outlines what is permissible to build on a particular site and a site plan details how the site will be developed. A site plan deals with all of fine details of a development such as access, grading, loading zones, landscaping, locations of parking, urban design and other detail features of any proposed development.

One of the most important parts of a site plan is the urban design aspect. As I am sure you are aware both the City Planners and the local community felt that the design of both the tower and the town homes, in the former proposal, did not integrate, from a design standpoint, with the adjacent community. City planning staff will be reviewing any proposed site plan to ensure that the design integrates well with the existing community.

In my last update to you I outlined a consensus position with myself, city staff and the local community. A site plan is where we implement the consensus position. Therefore, any new site plan will have to contain the following:

Underground resident parking.
Limited traffic access off of Playfair Drive by segmenting the garage and reducing parking access off of Playfair.
Maximize visitor parking spots.
Provision of adequate parking for residents similar to parking at the condo at 1705 Playfair Drive.
Provision of fencing, appropriate to the site to delineate Carleton Condominium Corporation # 500 property from the rest of the site.
Construction of a new entrance for Carleton Condominium Corporation # 500 off of Playfair Drive that provides a more appropriate and distinctive entrance for Carleton Condominium Corporation # 500.


Once we have received a site plan we will be meeting with the individuals and groups representing those most closely affected by the application to develop a consensus position. They include NoRezone, the Board of Directors of the Carleton Condominium Corporation (CCC) #500, the Board of Directors of Rosewood Estates and Protect Vista on the Park.

[highdensitysprawl]

Kanata West (http://www.kanatawest.com/)

http://wwuploads.googlepages.com/kanataWest.jpg

This state-of-the-art, master-planned park will be designed as a mixed-use site, equally capable of handling both business office and industrial applications.


145 total acres of Development Land
Direct highway 417 exposure and access
Tract sizes ranging from 5 to 50+ acres
All underground utilities including: municipal water and sewer lines, high-pressure natural gas lines, and advanced fiber optic lines
Carefully designed covenants that protect property owners
Available turnkey packages
Well-suited for any number of business opportunities


Any thoughts on the timeline of this....to me this seems very long term in terms of build out and very autocentric.

Interesting that the developers of this (Taggart/Tamarack/Doran etc) are also the group behind the residential development at the top right of the photo and they have an old aerial of that area....a lot of it is being developed with 'product' as we speak.

[harls]

Taggart also was involved in blowing up that crater for 180 Kent, and I think Doran is working on the Mondrian condo. They seem to have their fingers in a lot of pies.

[highdensitysprawl]

Taggart also was involved in blowing up that crater for 180 Kent, and I think Doran is working on the Mondrian condo. They seem to have their fingers in a lot of pies.

Yep, they are in a lot of stuff in Ottawa...family run businesses. They are big in building sprawl and auto-centric stuff in the suburbs...Charlesfort they ain't.

[waterloowarrior]

bank/walkley shoppers/clinic (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__7JLA03)

site plan (http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%20Referencing_Site%20Plan%20Application_Image%20Reference_Site_Plan_D07-12-08-0256.PDF)

[bradnixon]

bank/walkley shoppers/clinic (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__7JLA03)

site plan (http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%20Referencing_Site%20Plan%20Application_Image%20Reference_Site_Plan_D07-12-08-0256.PDF)

Interesting.

It looks like their main access road will be through the Marriott property to be developed to the west....

It looks like Walkley Nissan is moving... I wonder if it will still be on Walkley :)

Between this development and the Marriott, the Bank/Walkley area is showing signs of improving... about time considering how close to a transit station it is. Maybe this will be the impetus to redevelop the horrible mall where the current Shoppers/Value Village is.

[bradnixon]

Tower Crane in Orleans:

There appears to be a new Tower Crane around Tenth Line and the North Service Rd (Jeanne D'arc)

Anyone have any idea what that is for????

I haven't been by this area lately, but I'm going to guess that it was for a retirement residence called The Promenade.
http://www.alavidalifestyles.com/our-communities/properties/promenade/news-and-events.aspx

It says the address is 100 Rossignol, which is just north-east of 174/10th line.

[bradnixon]

Bringing some density to the suburbs... here are some upcoming condo/stacked townhouse projects:

-Riverside South Terrace homes (http://www.richcraft.com/riverside-terraces.htm). 136 units. Earl Armstrong & Canyon Walk.
(http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=rjcp548pt507&style=b&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=33018095&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1)

-Woodroffe Estates Terraces (http://www.richcraft.com/woodroffe-terraces.htm). 213 units. Directly east of Strandherd Transitway station.
(http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=rjc7p38pn5fy&style=b&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=32997351&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1)

-Minto Chapman Mills condo flats (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__6FN12Y). 160 units. 40 Barnstone (Cresthaven & Strandherd)
(http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=rjbvny8pqx25&style=b&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=32998007&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1)

-Java at Findlay Creek- Phase 2 (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__6B59B7). 60 units. Bank & White Alder
(http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=45.323133~-75.596049&style=h&lvl=18&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=32996491&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1) (Sorry, Findlay Creek is not available in Bird's Eye).

[waterloowarrior]

Major rec centre in works for north Kanata


BY JAKE RUPERT, THE OTTAWA CITIZENFEBRUARY 5, 2009


OTTAWA — A plan to finally get a proper recreation centre in Kanata North was endorsed by city council’s community services committee Thursday, and if all goes well, it will be open in three years.

Under the plan, the city will partner with the YM-YWCA, which would run the facility and contribute $6 million towards the construction of the project. The city has set aside $43 million for the centre, which will fill a recreation void in the north end of the suburb.

Deputy city manager Steve Kanellakos and recreation director Aaron Bury said 90 per cent of the city’s contribution comes from development fees collected from builders who have created the suburbs around the high-tech centre of the city and the people who bought homes there.

“It’s a good project, and we have a good partner,” Mr. Kanellakos said. “It’s needed in the area, and the money is already collected and approved.”

At a minimum, the 80,000-to 90,000-square-foot centre, which is to be at 4101 Innovation Dr., will have an indoor pool, community space for programs, a full-sized gym, and outdoor education centre, children and youth recreation areas and sports fields.

A report on the project says several other things, such as an indoor running track, assembly hall, café and another gym, could be added depending on costs and the possibly of getting additional sources of funding.

The report says “several” other groups have approached the city expressing interest in getting involved in the project, but only two are listed. Thinking in Pictures Educational Services, a non-profit group that helps children with autism and other conditions, is interested in constructing a 10,000-square-foot building for which they would pay the capital and operating costs. The Kanata Soccer club is also looking at adding a lighted, artificial-turf field to the project.

Mr. Bury said the need for a recreation centre in the area was identified 10 years ago. Since then, people living there have been pushing to get it built, but the city held off until it collected enough money to build a substantial facility.

Under the agreement, the facility will be city-owned and the Y will manage it. All city policies, including bilingual services, accommodation for different religious beliefs, base programming like public swimming, and city subsidy programs for low-income earners, will apply.

The city has had bad luck with other public-private partnerships on recreation projects in the past, but Mr. Bury says this one will be different. He said the Y is a non-profit agency and has agreed to have all details of the arrangement made public, including the capital and operating costs.

Kanata North Councillor Marianne Wilkinson said the centre will be an “enormous community improvement” when it is completed.

“There is a real lack of recreational and public space in that area,” she said. “I have a hard time finding space for my ward council meeting. People in that area have been paying development charges for a community centre for years, and they are finally going to get one.”

City council will vote on whether to proceed with the project at a meeting next week, and it is expected to face little or no opposition.

After this, final details of the arrangement with the Y need to be worked out, and a tender will be put out for companies to bid on designing and building the facility. City council will get several future reports on the details, and will have final approval at each stage of the project.

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

[waterloowarrior]

Churches seek holy ground

Houses of worship compete for scarce zoned land as number of congregants rises in Barrhaven

BY JENNIFER GREEN, THE OTTAWA CITIZENFEBRUARY 8, 2009 10:03 PM


OTTAWA — A religious revival is sweeping Barrhaven with no less than 11 congregations jockeying to build in the burgeoning suburb.

Canada’s first joint Anglican-Lutheran church wants three acres at Claridge and Beatrice drives, and the Sequoia Community Church is angling for 14 acres west of Greenbank Road near the railway tracks.

Sequoia’s pastor, Rick Lamothe, hopes to build a $14-million, 40,000-square-foot “cross-training” facility with a sports centre, soccer fields, counselling, and worship areas — a hybrid of a church and a community centre.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses already have their site of about three-quarters of an acre at Fairpark and Prince of Wales drives, and, with this summer’s volunteer “church raising,” their costs are likely to be under $750,000. As the men build, the women bake; some food is already in the freezer.

All the religious leaders say they want their buildings to be part of the community, not something that stands empty every day but Sunday. As the Anglican priest, David Selzer, says: “To be a church is to be in the community.”

Rev. Selzer’s project, with Lutheran pastor Ann Salmon, is something of an adventure. In 2001, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada signed the Waterloo Declaration, meaning they agree on just about everything and can worship together. Ottawa’s St. John’s Anglican disbanded to form again in Barrhaven with Rev. Salmon’s group. Now, they worship at Pierre Elliott Trudeau elementary school on Longfields Drive, and attract about 100 people a week.

Many of these congregations have an evangelical bent, even the Jewish outreach group, Chabad, which has just over an acre on Lamplighters Drive west of Cedarview.

Sequoia’s pastor, Mr. Lamothe, says his church has been involved in volunteer work, Canada Day festivities, anything to get the church out of the chapel and into the streets. Although Sequoia is aligned with the Baptist Church, he downplays denominations. “We don’t do religion, it’s all about the relationship (with God).”

On a more practical level, no one wants to become the white elephant that so many inner city churches did. Many are incorporating rental halls, or services such as daycare, to help with costs.

And they all know they are competing for increasingly scarce institutionally-zoned land. St. Andrew’s Catholic Church just announced on its website that it would not be making an offer on the Woodroffe site it hoped for. “Unfortunately the price of $1.8 million … the extremely tight timeline for payment and an expectation of almost immediate preparation for construction is beyond our reach at this time.”

Although there are more than 16,000 Catholics in Barrhaven, roughly four times the number of any other single faith, St. Andrew’s parish is still holding masses in Catholic schools.

Mr. Lamothe says: “There is a struggle for land — big time.”

Emdad Khan, with the South Nepean Muslim Association, agrees. “It’s very difficult. We’ve been looking for the past five years. Prices used to be about $200,000 an acre; now it’s $300,000.” His group is hoping to build a community centre with a Muslim prayer area. It’s not a mosque, he hastens to add, and it will not have a tall minaret or dome. He estimates there are about 5,000 Muslims in Barrhaven.

The Ottawa Christian School has outgrown its building on Woodroffe near Carlingwood, and has bought land on Tartan Drive. A two-storey, 15-room school should be ready by September 2010.

“My guess is that it is a booming area in terms of young families,” says school spokesman Paul Triemstra. “Some of the research seems to indicate that people who start having kids have a tendency to go back to church.”

Evangelical churches have been more nimble in building where the young families are, and better at coming up with programs that children and youth actually like attending.

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen


this is the ottawa christian school property - they recently requested development charge exemptions...

http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/csedc/2009/02-03/07%20-%20ACS2009-ICS-ECO-0006%20DC%20Exemptions_files/image004.gif

[waterloowarrior]

speaking of churches, here's a couple of interesting ones for sale in Hawksbury.. (late 1950s/mid 1960s)

http://www.nicolebonin.com/photos/MLS_INSCRIPTIONS/6921855.jpg

http://www.nicolebonin.com/en/properties.php?prpno=DNI-3188264270&returnpage=%2Fen%2Fproperties-list.php%3F%26page%3D

http://www.nicolebonin.com/photos/MLS_INSCRIPTIONS/106788430.jpg

http://www.nicolebonin.com/en/properties.php?prpno=DNI-2445828480&returnpage=%2Fen%2Fproperties-list.php%3F%26page%3D

[Cre47]

According to the Kanata Kourier, there is a proposal for a new commercial plaza although no major stores expected along with possible residential and office buildings/space for a lot near Terry Fox and Kanata Avenue.

[waterloowarrior]

Making the grade: new high school in Barrhaven (es.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/designingottawa/archive/2009/03/01/making-the-grade-new-high-school-in-barrhaven.aspx)

By MARIACOOK 03-01-2009 COMMENTS(1) DESIGNING OTTAWA

Filed under: Longfields Davidson Heights school
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board opens its first new high school in 10 years in September. Located at the corner of Longfields Drive and Berrigan Drive in Barrhaven, it looks like it will be a fine building and an excellent school.

Trades and technology, music and drama, computers and science, and, more unexpectedly, culinary arts will all have special facilities.
http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss195/mariacookottawa/LDHNightfrontviewXL.jpg


In making the case to the Legislature for the school, MPP Lisa MacLeod pointed out that the area has the highest birthrate in Canada, is the fastest growing community in Ottawa and is home to many new Canadians.

Classrooms for teaching 1400 students, grades 7 to 12, are complemented by four gyms and a 500-seat auditorium, a feature important to its role as a community centre. The construction cost of the three-storey, 186,000-square-foot building is about $33 million.

Schools have not typically included auditoriums for years, making do with portable stages and bleachers in the gym.

A sign of the times is the concern for security, which happily supports the open day-lit atrium and interior "street" around which the building is organized. Social visibility also helps to reduce antisocial threats.

http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss195/mariacookottawa/LDHDayfrontviewMedium.jpg

The design by Edward J. Cuhaci and Associates of Ottawa is a handsome welcoming building, generous with glass and colour.

Provisionally called Longfields Davidson Heights school, it is expected to get a new name soon.

Building new schools is as much to do with where people live as population growth. For example, while this school was being planned, Laurentian High School on Baseline Road closed.

New neighbourhoods need new schools. Old neighbourhoods need families. What to do? Start with better transit and a more equitable property tax structure.

IMAGES: Courtesy of Edward J. Cuhaci and Associates

Got a great project to share? Please send info and jpegs to mariacookottawa@gmail.com


http://www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca/cc_NewSchools_Additions.asp
scroll to the bottom for floorplans

[Ottawade]

Making the grade: new high school in Barrhaven (es.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/designingottawa/archive/2009/03/01/making-the-grade-new-high-school-in-barrhaven.aspx)

http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss195/mariacookottawa/LDHNightfrontviewXL.jpg


Ahh thats what I like to see! Children enjoying homework at 9PM on a summers eve! :P

In all seriousness I'm very happy to see kids going to school in something that isn't a boring old box.

[citizen j]

^No, it's actually 6am. They're eager to learn.
Yes, it is a good-looking building. Wish I'd gone to school there.

[waterloowarrior]

playfair/kilborn site plan app (15 storeys) (http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__7JN0HC)

[waterloowarrior]

City gives up fight to stop Kanata hotel

No expert would take case after city staff OK’d plan

BY PATRICK DARE, THE OTTAWA CITIZENMARCH 10, 2009 11:35 PM


OTTAWA-The city’s plan to fight a hotel development in Kanata became a humbling retreat Tuesday when it couldn’t hire an expert to argue the case.

City council’s planning and environment committee voted to abandon its opposition to a hotel at 160 Hearst Way, just south of the Queensway.

City planners had actually backed the development, saying the area is supposed to be part of the Kanata town centre, with a mix of commercial enterprises. The planners pointed out that the address is near major roads and within 600 metres of the Eagleson Transitway station.

The planners concluded the hotel was “appropriate” and “compatible” with surrounding neighbourhoods.

Neighbours disagreed and fought the developer, Arnon Corp., which is selling the land to a private investor who owns other hotels. Residents of the Arbour Glen neighbourhood especially opposed a hotel because of the increased traffic it would create and over concern that a possible site for light industry would be lost.

The councillor for the area, Peggy Feltmate, agreed with the neighbours’ objections and won support from council to reject the development. The grounds for that decision were that the hotel would create “inappropriate traffic” in a residential neighbourhood, a hotel would be more appropriate on the other side of the Queensway, and the development would not generate enough jobs.

Arnon Corp. appealed the decision to the Ontario Municipal Board, which can overrule city planning decisions, and a hearing was scheduled to start March 31.

But the city had a familiar problem: It could not have its planners argue the case before the municipal board, since the planners disagreed with council.

So the city tried to hire an independent planning consultant to argue the case but could not find one willing to take it on.

Councillors were warned that they might be placing the city at risk of having to pay the developer’s costs, if the municipality fails to present evidence or adequately prepare for a hearing before the board.

The planning committee voted to abandon the fight, with Feltmate dissenting. She still believes council took the right position and that the city’s planners took the wrong position. She said that another hotel nearby in Kanata has shown that truck and car traffic at all hours of night is troublesome for the neighbourhood and a hotel would be better placed beside the Centrum shopping centre north of the Queensway.

But Knoxdale-Merivale Councillor Gord Hunter said the case shows how city councillors need to more closely scrutinize the claims of residents who are opposed to developments. He said council does residents no favours when it sides with them, but without the evidence to back up claims of traffic problems and lower property values.

Hunter said independent planning consultants aren’t interested in taking weak cases that have little planning merit. He said neighbours’ hypothetical concerns about developments don’t last long at a municipal board hearing. And the city places itself at risk of large cost awards should any action ever be deemed frivolous.

Michael Casey, a vice-president of Arnon Corporation, said it “speaks volumes” that the city could not find a planner willing to be hired to argue the case.

Casey said that councillors should be prepared to base decisions on professional advice, rather than spending tax money on hired consultants — and risking cost awards — at the Ontario Municipal Board. He said it costs developers between $25,000 and $45,000 to wage such a fight

Casey said he could understand the local councillor opposing developments when there’s strong neighbourhood opposition, but the rest of council needs to “look at the bigger picture.”

Arnon recently won another development fight at the municipal board over a proposed rezoning of land at Merivale Road and Burris Lane. City council, with heavy pressure from neighbours, decided to not allow a restaurant at the site and the company appealed the decision.

The municipal board member hearing the case ruled that there are lots of restaurants in the area, so the business would fit well into the neighbourhood and would meet the city’s stated goal of intensification, which means redeveloping existing urban land.

“Residents did not provide any empirical and documentary evidence to support their position that the proposal would have an adverse impact on pollution, noise, smell, garbage and sewage,” said the member, M.G. Sommers, adding that the existing zoning — which would allow an office building — would generate more traffic than a restaurant would generate. (http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/e-decisions/pl080239-Aug-18-2008.pdf)

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

:doh:

[waterloowarrior]

not suburban, but interesting nonetheless

Committee approves eight-storey Carp seniors' residence, despite height concerns
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Committee+approves+eight+storey+Carp+seniors+residence+despite+height+concerns/1639608/story.html

BY PATRICK DARE , THE OTTAWA CITIZENMAY 28, 2009BE THE FIRST TO POST A COMMENT


OTTAWA — A proposed eight-storey seniors’ building is causing an uproar in Carp village, with most residents cheering it on but some fighting it as an inappropriate start of highrises in rural Ottawa.

On Thursday, the project sailed over its first city hurdle, winning the unanimous consent of city council’s agriculture and rural affairs committee, which was packed by Carp-area residents who mostly support the development.

Greg LeBlanc and his wife want to build the 100-unit residence, beginning perhaps next spring. It would be a jolt to the Carp economy of between $15 million and $20 million.

The development, to be surrounded by large trees, would include preservation of two old buildings — the Old Rectory and the White House — to be used as residences. As well, the building on the Carp Road side would have stores on the ground floor.

There is opposition to the new building, which will be on a lot bounded by Carp Road, Donald B. Munro Drive and Falldown Lane.

Prue Thomson told city councillors Thursday that the design is “massive” for a village that has building heights typically of two or three storeys.

“It’s like putting an ocean liner in a swimming pool,” said Thomson.

Opponents argued that if the city allows this higher building, it will have trouble restricting other taller buildings proposed for the village.

But the committee also heard from Carp-area residents who say the village — once a bustling commercial and social centre for West Carleton — desperately needs such a development.

“Our little town has gone backwards,” said John Caldwell, a former township councillor.

Rolly Armitage, a former township mayor and regional councillor, said the seniors’ building would be “an architectural jewel” where today there are only weeds in a too-quiet village centre.

The city received two petitions on the project; one, with 92 signatures, against the development and another with 574 signatures in support. When Councillor Glenn Brooks asked all those supporting the project to stand in the committee room Thursday, almost all of the spectators stood.

The committee was told that Carp once had taller buildings but they have gone as the business economy of the village faded.

The development will require a zoning change to allow the building to be 25 metres tall, rather than 11 metres.

The councillor for West Carleton-March, Eli El-Chantiry, said he was initially concerned about the height of the building but has been impressed with how the proposed design will fit into the village and revive its economy.

El-Chantiry said the villages of his ward are suffering due to lack of new commercial investment, while three schools have closed.

“This is really bringing life to the village,” said El-Chantiry.

The committee decision goes to full city council in two weeks.

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

[Cre47]

Proposed plan that would include buildings of 9-11 stories in the Campeau Avenue area in Kanata - close (beside?) to existing building built last year.

http://www.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2009/06-09/7-ACS2009-ICS-PGM-0059%20-%201001%20Canadian%20Shield%20.htm

http://www.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2009/06-09/7-ACS2009-ICS-PGM-0059%20-%201001%20Canadian%20Shield%20_files/image006.gif

[rocketphish]

KanataWest Business Park
http://www.kanatawest.com

The overall plan:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2503/3708938232_4448e49ca7_o_d.jpg


And here's what's planned for the 60 acre parcel:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2575/3708938140_e27afa8ea2_o_d.jpg


(image credits: DCYSA Architects (http://www.dcysa.ca))

[waterloowarrior]

some playfair/kilborn news...
http://norezone.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/productive-meeting/

Productive meeting
August 6, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized

Yesterday, NRP attended a meeting hosted by Councillor Peter Hume. In attendance were representatives from the other 3 neighbourhood groups: Rosewood Estates, Protect Vista on the Park and CCC500, as well as John Smit of the City of Ottawa. Ted Fobert of Fotenn Planning & Urban Design was present to provide an independent urban planner perspective.

The meeting was arranaged to review the most recent proposal (here and here) by the developer that was prepared in consultation with the City of Ottawa, Councillor Hume’s office and an independent urban planner brought in by the City of Ottawa. The meeting’s goal was to provide an opportunity for comments that the City of Ottawa and Councillor Hume could then use as possible conditions for the developer to agree to in order to receive approval.

Significant changes to the previous proposals from the developer include:

1. The removal altogether of Building E on Playfair Drive. Building D (off of Playfair and parallel to 1701 Kilborn Avenue) is to be a graduated 5 storey building with 36 units.

2. The attempt to provide greenspace behind 1695 Playfair Drive with the removal of above ground parking. The proposal seems to present a hybrid parking system with most of it below the surface, but with some kind of a roof that will allow greenspace and garden plots above. This design remains a bit confusing to all without 3D photos.

3. The existing towers (1695 Playfair and 1701 Kilborn) will be retrofitted in a manner more consistent with providing a more open space.

4. Traffic – The underground parking setup will divide the volume of traffic appropriately between Playfair and Kilborn.

Based on comments at the meeting, issues that still need to be resolved include:

1. Future Development – In the new proposal, the developer has left the words “Future Building Site” where proposed Building E used to be. There was unanimous unease with the idea that the developer may conduct future development on this site and/or the site behind 1695 Playfair Drive at a later stage.

2. Building C - Though the developer is legally entitled to build a 45 metre (14 storey) building, there remain concerns about the look-feel of the proposed building (sculpting, terraces) and the privacy issues to the West facing side (looking onto Rosewood Estates).

3. Garbage / Moving - The issue of where the loading zones will be placed for moving trucks, the garbage and the recycling for Buildings A, B, C and D remains unclear.

4. Parking off of Playfair Drive – CCC500/Protect Vista on the Park have confirmed that there is a legal issue that they will need to raise independently with the developer with respect to the above ground parking areas that are in place off of the Playfair Drive entrance.

5. Alternate vehicle access to CCC500 from Playfair Drive.

6. Timing of improvements – could priority be given to retrofitting Buildings A and B before the construction of Buildings C and D?

7. Proper landscaping.

8. Blending of the project to the neighbourhood and to the existing Buildings A and B.

Any additional comments are to be provided to Councillor Hume’s office by Friday, August 14th. If you have any comments, please pass them on to NRP via the website or at norezoneplayfair@gmail.com in order for us to bundle the community’s comments together in one tidy package.

A big thank you to Councillor Hume and his staff (Anne Ménard and Susan Scott) for putting together the meeting!

[Cre47]

Mini-hospital coming to Orleans in 2012



Orleans 'mini-hospital' set to open in 2012

By BETH JOHNSTON, Sun Media

Last Updated: 13th August 2009, 7:43pm


Premier Dalton McGuinty was on hand Thursday to announce a one million dollar investment towards helping develop plans for a new mini-hospital in Orleans.

It looks good on paper.

But there’s a long way to go before Orleans residents get their long-awaited, state-of-the-art “health hub.”

Premier Dalton McGuinty was in the community Thursday to unveil the snazzy new plans — a chrome and glass behemoth where residents will be able to get everything from day surgery to dialysis in a “seamless continuum of care.”

But the 100,000 people who live in that neck of the woods will have to wait until at least 2012 to enjoy the “future of Canadian health care” in their community.

McGuinty pledged $1 million for a “more sophisticated business plan” for the facility Thursday.

The business plan will develop a service delivery model, determine what infrastructure is needed and deliver a functional program. Partners are looking at seven to 10 sites for the facility and hope to make an offer on a parcel of land within three months. They have set a goal of breaking ground by early 2012.

That’s lightning speed when it comes to government and approvals, said Montfort Hospital CEO Gerald Savoie.

“I think it’s better for us to walk before we start running,” McGuinty said.

The Montfort Hospital will take the lead on the new centre, which will roll together services now provided by the Orleans Urgent Care Clinic and the Sante Portobello Clinic. The centre will have the family health-care team as the hub and offer key services such as diagnostic tests.

The Orleans Family Health Hub, which was first announced in June 2008, will offer dozens of health-care services, including a family health team, mental-health services and case management for home care and community resources.

“This new hub will be the envy of all,” Savoie said.

The new “mini-hospital” will represent the future of health care, said Doctor Robert Cushman, head of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network.

“We’re creating a one-stop shopping experience for health care users.”

beth.johnston@sunmedia.ca

[harls]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2575/3708938140_e27afa8ea2_o_d.jpg


(image credits: DCYSA Architects (http://www.dcysa.ca))

Nothing like going for a dip at lunch hour to take your mind off those TPS reports.

[waterloowarrior]

august p&e agenda is up, almost all suburban stuff
http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2009/08-25/agendaindex58.htm

[waterloowarrior]

Nothing like going for a dip at lunch hour to take your mind off those TPS reports.

But you'll still have to fight through Kanata traffic to get anywhere after work on Sens game nights

BsqlDQKaMAU

[Proof Sheet]

Nothing like going for a dip at lunch hour to take your mind off those TPS reports.

What is a 'TPS' report? That design of the business park near Scotiabank Place looks like some sort of alien spacecraft.

[Proof Sheet]

august p&e agenda is up, almost all suburban stuff
http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2009/08-25/agendaindex58.htm

From what I understand, the next agenda will be almost as full, with some controversial items coming up then, once people are back from summer vacation.

[harls]

What is a 'TPS' report?

it's just a made up name for a menial job - I was referencing the movie Office Space (Waterloowarrior posted a clip from it) :)

[Zach6668]

What is a 'TPS' report? That design of the business park near Scotiabank Place looks like some sort of alien spacecraft.

Rent/download/steal Office Space (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/) immediately.

[Cre47]

Orville Station in Stittsville update

Confused council committee rejects appeal of Stittsville development plan


By Patrick Dare , The Ottawa CitizenSeptember 8, 2009 5:02 PMComments (2)



OTTAWA — Capital Councillor Clive Doucet voted one way, then another, on the same issue Tuesday at a meeting of council’s planning and environment committee.

It was an unusual procedural misstep for Doucet, who initially voted to proceed with an appeal of a proposed Stittsville development, Orville Station, to the Ontario Municipal Board. That appeal is on the grounds that the property involved should be rezoned, rather than having 15 minor variances allowed — as was permitted by the committee of adjustment, which oversees minor planning issues for specific sites. The appeal will cost the city $25,000.

The vote was 5-3 on the planning committee, with councillors Diane Holmes, Gord Hunter and Peggy Feltmate opposed to sending the matter to the board.

People started to walk out of the council chamber and then Doucet said: “I got my vote wrong on that.” Doucet said he had not wanted to send the issue to the municipal board. If he switched his vote, the tie would mean the motion failed.

Councillor Peter Hume, chairman of the committee, said Doucet would be able to change his vote if the rules of procedure were waived. While Councillor Shad Qadri, who represents Stittsville, voted against the waiving of the rules, the rest of the committee voted to allow it and Doucet was able to change his vote.

The change meant the vote was 4-4, which means the motion failed. The matter will now go to full city council for a decision without any committee recommendation.
© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

[waterloowarrior]

Land sale approved for Barrhaven rec centre
Harder thanks Monarch for keeping price in check
September 08, 2009
BY JENNIFER MCINTOSH
http://www.yournepean.com/article/15757

Another piece of the puzzle fell into place for the long-awaited recreation centre in Barrhaven.

The City of Ottawa’s community and protective services committee approved the purchase of the land situated on the western side of Greenbank Road near the intersection with Cambrian Road on Sept. 3.

Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder and city staff have had their eye on the 9.45-hectare piece of land for a number of years now as they planned for the development of a new sports centre for Barrhaven.

The price tag of the land owned by the Monarch Corporation is just shy of $4.4 million, a price that the company has held for the last few years over several discussions with Harder.

“I would just like to thank Monarch for their integrity in keeping the price where it is,” she said. “As prices go up, I am sure they could have tacked on another $75,000.”

The recreation centre would be part of an integrated campus with a Catholic elementary school, a fire station and sports fields.

At the announcement of the concept on Aug. 28, Harder said it is likely the that construction of the facility wouldn’t be complete until at least 2013, around the same time the widening of Greenbank Road is set to be completed.

Now that the land sale has been approved by the committee, the next step is for it to go to council, then on to the design stage and cost analysis. The council decision was scheduled for Sept. 9, after Nepean-Barrhaven This Week went to press.

“I know many residents of Barrhaven are looking forward to this sports complex,” Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches said. “It would serve many areas of South Ottawa as well.”

With the Walter Baker Centre about to celebrate its 30th birthday and 50,000 new residents expected in Barrhaven in the next decade, the recreation centre will be a welcome addition.

“This project is a stunning example of the community coming together,” Harder said.

jennifer.mcintosh@nepeanthisweek.com


http://media.ottawaregion.topscms.com/images/b4/80/a2d33bec4f7287ed1dc13269dc5d.jpeg
A copy of the site plan for the proposed integrated campus at the intersection of Greenbank and Cambrian roads. Special to This Week

[Proof Sheet]

http://www.yourkanata.com/KanataKourier/article/15850

I'm not sure if there is a formal application on this or not yet....looks like they have Councillor and community association buy in.

[waterloowarrior]

http://www.yourkanata.com/KanataKourier/article/15850

I'm not sure if there is a formal application on this or not yet....looks like they have Councillor and community association buy in.

These guys have been really active in preconsulting with the community... there may be some concern about the potential issue of the loss of industrial/employment land, but institutional uses are permitted in employment and enterprise areas in the OP. The site is right beside a school anyways, and previously got approvals (http://www.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/occ/2006/02-08/pec/ACS2006-PGM-APR-0033.htm)for a school and day nursery

[Proof Sheet]

These guys have been really active in preconsulting with the community... there may be some concern about the potential issue of the loss of industrial/employment land, but institutional uses are permitted in employment and enterprise areas in the OP. The site is right beside a school anyways, and previously got approvals (http://www.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/occ/2006/02-08/pec/ACS2006-PGM-APR-0033.htm)for a school and day nursery

I now know exactly where the site is...thanks....the KSBP is not the most vibrant BP in the City and it has been a hard sell in terms of development for years. A community centre like this may bring some evening and weekend life into the area.

[waterloowarrior]

This is the Crossroads of Barrhaven by Tega Homes

First shot is along Claridge Drive
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2658/3917156628_5a96ba7dae_b.jpg

Second shot is it looks like from the corner of Claridge Drive and Strandherd .. (stopped at the red light)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2500/3916370217_984777a5e0_b.jpg

[waterloowarrior]

Making the grade: new high school in Barrhaven (es.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/designingottawa/archive/2009/03/01/making-the-grade-new-high-school-in-barrhaven.aspx)

By MARIACOOK 03-01-2009 COMMENTS(1) DESIGNING OTTAWA

Filed under: Longfields Davidson Heights school
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board opens its first new high school in 10 years in September. Located at the corner of Longfields Drive and Berrigan Drive in Barrhaven, it looks like it will be a fine building and an excellent school.

Trades and technology, music and drama, computers and science, and, more unexpectedly, culinary arts will all have special facilities.
http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss195/mariacookottawa/LDHNightfrontviewXL.jpg


In making the case to the Legislature for the school, MPP Lisa MacLeod pointed out that the area has the highest birthrate in Canada, is the fastest growing community in Ottawa and is home to many new Canadians.

Classrooms for teaching 1400 students, grades 7 to 12, are complemented by four gyms and a 500-seat auditorium, a feature important to its role as a community centre. The construction cost of the three-storey, 186,000-square-foot building is about $33 million.

Schools have not typically included auditoriums for years, making do with portable stages and bleachers in the gym.

A sign of the times is the concern for security, which happily supports the open day-lit atrium and interior "street" around which the building is organized. Social visibility also helps to reduce antisocial threats.

http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss195/mariacookottawa/LDHDayfrontviewMedium.jpg

The design by Edward J. Cuhaci and Associates of Ottawa is a handsome welcoming building, generous with glass and colour.

Provisionally called Longfields Davidson Heights school, it is expected to get a new name soon.

Building new schools is as much to do with where people live as population growth. For example, while this school was being planned, Laurentian High School on Baseline Road closed.

New neighbourhoods need new schools. Old neighbourhoods need families. What to do? Start with better transit and a more equitable property tax structure.

IMAGES: Courtesy of Edward J. Cuhaci and Associates

Got a great project to share? Please send info and jpegs to mariacookottawa@gmail.com


http://www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca/cc_NewSchools_Additions.asp
scroll to the bottom for floorplans


Here's the finished product

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3469/3916365175_14b79a3778_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2459/3917197728_b457f09787_b.jpg

[rocketphish]

Shenkman rezoning Orleans industrial land to kick-start 'prestige' uses
By Peter Kovessy, Ottawa Business Journal Staff
Wed, Sep 16, 2009 12:00 AM EST

Formerly touted as possible DND HQ site, property could accommodate three million square feet of office space

The owner of approximately 173 acres of undeveloped land in the Orleans Industrial Park is hoping a pending rezoning, combined with the increased commercial activity in the area, will help finally turn the area into a major employment node.

The land in the Innes and Mer Bleue roads area has been owned by Shenkman Group and its subsidiaries for the last eight years. Currently zoned for light industrial uses and a maximum building heights of between 11 and 14 metres, a rezoning application going before council later this month would allow greater flexibility to build large offices of up to 21 metres, or approximately five to seven storeys.

"Up until recently, the lands ... were not very well situated from a transportation perspective," says Shenkman president Kevin McCrann.

"But with the (Innes Road expansion) and the recent intensification of the area, in terms of residential and lots more commercial (and) retail, those lands have more or less come of age."

Immediately north of Shenkman's lands are the Innes Shopping Centre, anchored by a Wal-Mart and Canadian Tire, and the RioCan/Trinity commercial development under construction that will feature an Empire Theatres, Lowe's and fitness club.

Mr. McCrann says these shopping centres will heighten the exposure of the adjacent vacant land and offer amenities to prospective office workers.

The Orleans Industrial Park, which includes the Shenkman lands, was designated for industrial uses by the former city of Gloucester more than 25 years ago, according to a city staff report.

However, industrial users have shown little interest in using the park for warehouse, assembly or manufacturing operations. To date, there is not a single industrial user in the park, the report says.

In 2001, Shenkman Corp. unveiled plans for an office complex of up to three million square feet. The six-phase development, dubbed Eden Park, was to take a decade to build.

A few years later, in 2005, the developer revealed concept plans for a one-million-square-foot office complex that it hoped would become the new home of the Department of National Defence.

Mr. McCrann says his company is holding the land for larger institutional users and is not looking to divide it into smaller parcels. Optimally, he says, the site would be turned into a business campus with about three million square feet of "prestige" office space.

Mr. McCrann adds it would represent a great opportunity for the federal government, given the large number of public servants living in the area.

"I don't think we are well represented in terms of office space in the east end," he says.

It is a sentiment also felt by the Orleans business community, which has been clamouring for additional office space for years.

Peter Stewart, the executive director of the Orleans Chamber of Commerce, says growing small businesses in the area don't have many office options, which prevents the community from establishing a solid employment base.

"You either build your own facility or you have to go back towards St. Laurent Boulevard. We need somewhere for these people to grow and go from a couple thousand square feet to five or 10,000 square feet."

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COMMERCIAL MARKET Q2 SNAPSHOT

East-end office:

Vacancy rate: 2.8%

Total inventory: 3.31 million square feet

Average net rent: $14.78 per square foot

Source: Colliers International

East-end industrial:

Availability rate: 4.6%

Total inventory: 13.57 million square feet

Asking net rent: $7.68 per square foot

Source: CB Richard Ellis

Orleans retail:

Vacancy rate: 4.3%

Total inventory: 819,980 square feet

Average net rent: $20.22 per square foot

Source: Cushman & Wakefield LePage

http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/305783349685517.php

[Cre47]

Any idea what it is building in/near the Bridlewood area since I've seen a crane on CBC at 5 last night?

[Lakche]

Does anyone know what they're building at the corner of Montreal Road and Shefford Road, right next to the 174?

A crane went up there a couple of weeks ago but I haven't seen any sign indicating what's going up. Just a Pomerleau construction sign.

[Sens1992]

Does anyone know what they're building at the corner of Montreal Road and Shefford Road, right next to the 174?

A crane went up there a couple of weeks ago but I haven't seen any sign indicating what's going up. Just a Pomerleau construction sign.

There was a request for proposal sign from the city and it was saying that a retirement home was planned for that location.

[Proof Sheet]

There was a request for proposal sign from the city and it was saying that a retirement home was planned for that location.

The sign was probably a notice of a proposal being contemplated...a standard City sign. I seem to recall it was going to be a privately built retirement home in the land north of Montreal west of 174 and east of Shefford.

[Norman Bates]

Does anyone know what they're building at the corner of Montreal Road and Shefford Road, right next to the 174?

A crane went up there a couple of weeks ago but I haven't seen any sign indicating what's going up. Just a Pomerleau construction sign.About thirty years ago I remember that there was a rumour that there was radioactive waste buried at that corner. As a kid I even recall a young reporter from the Citizen coming to check it out.

[Proof Sheet]

Any idea what it is building in/near the Bridlewood area since I've seen a crane on CBC at 5 last night?

where in Bridlewood do you mean...at 70 Stonehaven there is a crane for an addition to a retirement home..is that where you mean

[Cre47]

Not sure because 70 Stonehaven gave me this; a wooded area

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=70+Stonehaven+Dr,+Ottawa,+Ottawa+Division,+Ontario&sll=45.316396,-75.902492&sspn=0.004798,0.008991&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FQMWswId-Y56-w&split=0&hq=&hnear=70+Stonehaven+Dr,+Ottawa,+Ottawa+Division,+Ontario&z=15&layer=c&cbll=45.290993,-75.854057&panoid=m7Yg9DNoT3COFGPzARFk2g&cbp=12,259.08,,1,7.22

Speaking of retirement homes, here are a couple of images from recently build retirement homes

Eagleson Road (yeah I know it's completely out of place)

http://maps.google.ca/maps/mm?client=firefox-a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=45.279235,-75.858622&spn=0,359.964037&z=14&layer=c&cbll=45.273833,-75.860125&panoid=1nAaUlOEWLR21oVBEVkgxw&cbp=12,301.48,,0,5


And this too on Campeau Drive (I believe it's another one)

http://maps.google.ca/maps/mm?client=firefox-a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=45.320047,-75.899091&spn=0,359.991009&z=16&layer=c&cbll=45.316396,-75.902492&panoid=fvd4XIZbMhrsnzTu0RWxxA&cbp=12,100.74,,1,-3.48

[Proof Sheet]

Not sure because 70 Stonehaven gave me this; a wooded area

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=70+Stonehaven+Dr,+Ottawa,+Ottawa+Division,+Ontario&sll=45.316396,-75.902492&sspn=0.004798,0.008991&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FQMWswId-Y56-w&split=0&hq=&hnear=70+Stonehaven+Dr,+Ottawa,+Ottawa+Division,+Ontario&z=15&layer=c&cbll=45.290993,-75.854057&panoid=m7Yg9DNoT3COFGPzARFk2g&cbp=12,259.08,,1,7.22

Speaking of retirement homes, here are a couple of images from recently build retirement homes

Eagleson Road (yeah I know it's completely out of place)

http://maps.google.ca/maps/mm?client=firefox-a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=45.279235,-75.858622&spn=0,359.964037&z=14&layer=c&cbll=45.273833,-75.860125&panoid=1nAaUlOEWLR21oVBEVkgxw&cbp=12,301.48,,0,5


And this too on Campeau Drive (I believe it's another one)

http://maps.google.ca/maps/mm?client=firefox-a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=45.320047,-75.899091&spn=0,359.991009&z=16&layer=c&cbll=45.316396,-75.902492&panoid=fvd4XIZbMhrsnzTu0RWxxA&cbp=12,100.74,,1,-3.48

70 Stonehaven is actually to the west of that location...north side of Stonehaven and to the east of a plaza.

That retirement home on Eagleson is like a building located on the edge of the steppe.

The one on Campeau has been u/c for ages...since at least March of 2008.

[Cre47]

This I guess

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=70+Stonehaven+Dr,+Ottawa,+Ottawa+Division,+Ontario&sll=45.316396,-75.902492&sspn=0.004798,0.008991&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FQMWswId-Y56-w&split=0&layer=c&cbll=45.291028,-75.856166&panoid=jZHXTz1qt5QjNrcLfkGgsQ&cbp=12,353.01,,0,7.22&hq=&hnear=70+Stonehaven+Dr,+Ottawa,+Ottawa+Division,+Ontario&ll=45.291041,-75.856004&spn=0.008725,0.017982&z=15

I had the impression they were building something much taller

Also might be another one of those recent multi-story retirement homes. This was under construction in June 2008 based on the bing.com Map

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=70+Stonehaven+Dr,+Ottawa,+Ottawa+Division,+Ontario&sll=45.316396,-75.902492&sspn=0.004798,0.008991&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FQMWswId-Y56-w&split=0&layer=c&cbll=45.489378,-75.504772&panoid=OXz-StMeNAuGLrsGBITRaw&cbp=12,73.93,,0,-24.27&hq=&hnear=70+Stonehaven+Dr,+Ottawa,+Ottawa+Division,+Ontario&ll=45.4889,-75.504398&spn=0.034779,0.071926&z=13

[Proof Sheet]

This I guess

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=70+Stonehaven+Dr,+Ottawa,+Ottawa+Division,+Ontario&sll=45.316396,-75.902492&sspn=0.004798,0.008991&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FQMWswId-Y56-w&split=0&layer=c&cbll=45.291028,-75.856166&panoid=jZHXTz1qt5QjNrcLfkGgsQ&cbp=12,353.01,,0,7.22&hq=&hnear=70+Stonehaven+Dr,+Ottawa,+Ottawa+Division,+Ontario&ll=45.291041,-75.856004&spn=0.008725,0.017982&z=15

I had the impression they were building something much taller


The actual expansion at the retirement home is 4 storeys and is located in the NW corner of the site.

[waterloowarrior]

timmy's with drivethrough proposed at Orleans/St. Joseph (replace existing tim's )... room for 14 cars to queue
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__7PQ18K

[waterloowarrior]

New Catholic high school in Riverside south
http://www.emcottawasouth.ca/20091106/news/St.+Francis+Xavier+High+School+celebrates+official+opening

streetview (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ottawa,+ON&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=46.422473,114.169922&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ottawa,+Ottawa+Division,+Ontario&ll=45.289199,-75.671811&spn=0.024576,0.055747&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=45.289477,-75.672009&panoid=LWWEPcH5wSnZz7VJ1IG4Yg&cbp=12,79.54,,0,2.44)

[waterloowarrior]

four storey, 80 unit apartment building for innes/belcourt
http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/pec/2009/12-08/3%20-%20ACS2009-ICS-PGM-0216%20-%203817,%203835%20&%203843%20Innes%20Rd.htm
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__7O5ZV0

new home for the ottawa humane society
http://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__7TR85A

[waterloowarrior]

Phoenix is building a new condo project "Hillside Vista (http://www.phoenixhomes.ca/communities/communities_future_overview.cfm?com=34)" near 10th Line/St. Joseph, no details on their website yet.

There is a nice view at the back of the Orleans Town Centre, although I guess lower level units might get a view of the highway ;)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3374/3623275077_f67730ab62_b.jpg

(photo by me)

[DubberDom]

Isnt that where the hotel is going?

[c_speed3108]

No one hotel is at St Joe and OLD tenth line
The other hotel is near Place D'Orleans and the highway in back of shankman.

This is a high-rise condo that is one of the MANY buildings proposed in the town-centre redevelopment.

[DubberDom]

Their map is not too reliable, heck they even call the highway "417"

[c_speed3108]

Here is a better map that shows how this will go

http://www.articipate.ca/vm/newvisual/attachments/769/documents/Orleans%20Town%20Centre%20Concept%20Plan-web.pdf

The condo tower being referred to is building "S"

The stacked town houses (building "O") were completed a few years ago.

At the other end Building A (shankman) is complete

Building C is the old cumberland city hall ...so it exists.

Building G is the YMCA

They are currently working on building H and possibly building I which are the YMCA expansion.

The road behind shankman is presently being built.

[c_speed3108]

Orléans at 150


By Matthew Pearson, The Ottawa CitizenJanuary 15, 2010 3:03 PM


OTTAWA — Long before Highway 174 was built, Joseph Eugène Bruno Gigues, Ottawa’s first Catholic bishop, travelled by boat down the Ottawa River to a tiny farming community east of the city.

For half a century, English and French settlers had been clearing land to grow potatoes and other produce bound for Montreal.

One man, François Dupuis, wanted the bishop’s permission to build a small chapel, so residents would have a place to worship.

The bishop, who could have come by horse-drawn cart down Montreal Road and paid a 25-cent toll to cross the bridge over Green’s Creek, granted Dupuis his wish and agreed to start a Catholic mission.

In 1860, that mission officially became the Parish of St. Joseph d’Orléans — we know it today as Orléans.

The predominantly francophone parish has since grown into a community of more than 100,000 people. The church no longer plays such a central role and anglophones now make up the majority, but Orléans hasn’t lost its French flavour.

A major health care centre was announced just this week, for land south of Innes Road. And the opening of the Shenkman Arts Centre last year has given the community a temple for the 21st century.

There wasn’t much separating church and state in 1860.

People often referred to the town by its parish name. That could explain why celebrating the 150th anniversary of the parish seems more significant.

“Even though the celebration is for the parish, it’s also a celebration of the community that has come around the place,” said Msgr. Peter Schonenbach, the head of a society formed to plan anniversary activities.

A banquet Saturday will kick off a year of events to mark the anniversary. In May, Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of the Catholic archdiocese of Ottawa will re-enact Gigues’s trip down the Ottawa River, culminating in a parade, mass and reception at the church.

With five masses a week and close to 4,000 families registered — not to mention a steeple that towers over everything on St. Joseph Boulevard — the parish continues to play a major role in Orléans.

But Schonenbach admits growth throughout the last half of the 20th century has changed the community forever.

The parish had 43 anglophone and 131 francophone families in 1880, according to Diocesan records.

Nearly a century later — in 1976 — the population of Orléans was 11,480. By 2008, it was estimated to be 103,750 and counting.

As the community grew, so too did St. Joseph Boulevard. The street was widened to accommodate more traffic. Houses built by some of the original settlers were torn down and replaced by strip malls and parking lots. The house of the parish janitor, just east of the church, was demolished to make way for a Kentucky Fried Chicken.

There’s a big push on now to reclaim the strip as the “Heart of Orléans,” but it won’t be easy. Cars and trucks rush past, most businesses are set back from the street and shoppers have many more options than they once did. They’ve been flocking to Place d’Orléans mall since it opened in 1979 and, more recently, to the box stores popping up on Innes Road.

As area MPP Phil McNeely said, “We built our own Merivale Road up on Innes.”

Like so many people here, Gérald and Pauline Poulin moved to Orléans in 1957 because they wanted to raise their children in a French milieu.

The couple bought a vacant piece of land on Notre Dame Street and, in 1958, built a small house. A few years later, they built a larger house on the same piece of land and raised eight kids — four girls, four boys.

Gerald may have a small stature — he stands five-foot-four — but he’s always had huge ambitions for the community.

He joined the chamber of commerce and the campaign to bring municipal waterworks to the community. He became secretary-treasurer of the school board and oversaw the opening of the intermediate school on Carrière Street, which is now St. Joseph school. And he helped to make the Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Complex Orléans a reality before it had MacQuarrie’s name on it.

Not bad for someone who was in the federal public service and, after retiring, began a second career in real estate.

His latest project was a short history of Orléans, published in the Orléans Cumberland telephone book. This place is clearly in his blood.

“I’ve lived here, I’ve helped develop it, I’m going to die here and I’m going to be buried here, it’s my place,” said the 78-year-old, who has a small park in Chapel Hill named after him.

Today, Orléans is a vital part of the city and Poulin says the 150th anniversary is a fitting time to recognize it. “This community is the best reflection of what Canada could and should be, given the relationship between the francophones and the anglophones — the way we work together, the way we get along, the way we get things done and the way we respect each other,” he said.

Anglophones are roughly 55 per cent of Orléans’ population, compared to francophones at 31 per cent. A further 10 per cent of the community speaks a mother tongue that is neither French or English.

Since the late 1970s, MIFO — Mouvement d’implication francophone d’Orléans — has worked to protect and sustain the French part of the community.

It started with 30 volunteers and one employee, and today boasts 160 employees and 50 volunteers.

Jocelyne Agnew, the president of the board, said MIFO strives to meet the artistic, cultural and educational needs of the community through preschool, before- and after-school programs and summer camps.

MIFO also presents a quarter of the programming at the Shenkman Arts Centre.

“We’re very proud to have it,” Agnew said. “I think it was 20 years of requests before they gave us our arts centre.”

Agnew said the new facility helps MIFO bring big-name francophone talent to local audiences. So far, the shows have, on average, sold 75 per cent of available tickets.

She is not alone in heaping praise on the 86,000-square-foot centre, which includes a 505-seat theatre, 100-seat theatre for rehearsal and experimental work, practice studios for music and dance, gallery and exhibition space, classrooms, a recording studio and administrative offices.

Meanwhile, the area around the centre is becoming a hub of activity. The red-bricked sidewalks are wide and clean as people walk to the neighbouring Orléans outpost of city hall, or to the YMCA. Across the street, there are restaurants, pubs and several businesses blossoming in the plaza.

“I think this will unify Orléans,” said McNeely said of the Shenkman centre. “I’ve always felt that this building would be the heart and soul of Orléans.”

The Shenkman, he said, is a place for all people — regardless of language, religion or club affiliation.

Over the next few months, audiences can see onstage Canadian-born country singer Derek Ruttan, popular Franco-Ontarian performer Brian St-Pierre, Montreal-based dance troupe Destins Croisés or “journey to Pakistan” at an event put on by the Canada Pakistan Association.

McNeely, whose ancestors were part of the first wave of Irish Catholic settlers in the area, could hardly contain his glee during his inaugural New Year’s Levée, held on the lower level of the centre.

For that event, he and others, dressed in period costume, munched on buckwheat pancakes and molasses, and tapped their feet to traditional francophone music.

There was a feeling of celebration and of new beginnings in the air that afternoon for they have built a modern temple for modern times, a new heart for a community built around — and because of — the Parish of St. Joseph d’Orléans.

mpearson@thecitizen.canwest.com

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen.

[waterloowarrior]

Proposed five-storey building and townhouse development in Stittsville
http://www.yourottawaregion.com/news/article/602963--proposed-five-storey-building-and-townhouse-development-in-stittsville
Rezoning needed

STITTSVILLE - A proposed five-storey building and related townhouse development in Stittsville is making its way along the road to approval.
A revised application regarding the rezoning and development of the site on the east side of Stittsville Main Street immediately south of the Stittsville Legion Hall has now been submitted to the city of Ottawa.

The proposal is now being circulated by the city to various technical agencies and to the Stittsville Village Association for comment. Individual residents of the city can also make comments to the city’s planning department.

Once the city’s planning department receives comments from the technical agencies and others, the matter will go to Ottawa city council’s planning and environment committee to consider the rezoning involved in the proposal. There is no date yet established for this meeting.

The city will be trying to render a decision on the project by April 13 which would meet the time frame for such decisions as set out by provincial government regulations.

This revised application basically involves a change in the number of townhouse units being proposed for the rear of the property. The original application called for six three-storey townhouse buildings containing 36 units.

The new submission has reduced this to five three-storey buildings containing 28 units in total.

In addition, the parking for these reduced number of units has been increased, with 16 of the units to have two parking spaces while the other 12 units will have one parking space. Rear yard parking as proposed previously has been eliminated, providing additional landscaped space between the proposed buildings and the adjacent homes.

The revised application does not alter the five story building proposed for the front of the site adjacent to Stittsville Main Street. This building will have retail on the ground floor, offices on the second and third floors and residential apartment units on the fourth and fifth floors. The proposed height of the building is 15 metres which is four metres higher than what the current zoning on the property allows.

Access to the rear of the site will be via a private street that will run through an archway in the five-storey building. This private street will line up with Manchester Street.

The revised application does alter the amount of parking being proposed for the proposed five-storey building. There are now 35 full-size parking spaces being provided at the rear of the five-storey building. The initial proposal involved 40 parking spaces although 19 of them were to have a reduced width from what is considered a full-size parking spaces (2.6 metres wide).

The original proposal to develop this site goes back to Jan. 2009.

[eternallyme]

As for that church, they should buy back the adjacent residential lands and expand it to make it the centrepoint of the community...

[waterloowarrior]

Orville Station in Stittsville approved by PEC, going to Council Wednesday
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Ottawa+planning+council+approves+Orville+Station+development+Stittsville/2603856/story.html

[Proof Sheet]

Orville Station in Stittsville approved by PEC, going to Council Wednesday
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Ottawa+planning+council+approves+Orville+Station+development+Stittsville/2603856/story.html

Thanks..I like some of the comments in the article.

[waterloowarrior]

Approved by Council

Townhouse, commercial development for Stittsville gets go-ahead
CITYFEBRUARY 24, 2010 11:41 AM

OTTAWA — Orville Station, a mixed-use development in Stittsville, can go ahead after receiving council's approval on Wednesday.

The controversial development is proposed for the intersection of Main and Orville streets. It consists of 36 stacked townhouses and two commercial buildings with five apartments above the ground floor.

The Stittsville Village Association opposes the development and wants future development near Main Street to be paused until the City of Ottawa conducts an independent study of the cumulative effect of new traffic.

Stittsville-Kanata West Councillor Shad Qadri said Tuesday that he backed the project, but has a few concerns — involving snow removal, fences and landscaping, and the potential risk of flooding in garage storage areas because of "tight site conditions" — that have resulted in conditions being attached to the site plan approval.

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

[Davis137]

I am wondering if the Elmvale Acres and Greenboro areas will expand east at all when the Huntclub extension from Hawthorne to the 417 is completed. I know there is supposed to be wetlands and protected woodland in that area...I'm also wondering if the North side of Johnston will get developed on the west side of Conroy, as they are developing new subdivisions along it east of Albion...

[Cre47]

Website for Celestia Condominiums on Centrum. Sales office will open this spring. Sounds like a 6-storey one.

http://www.celestiacondos.com/

[c_speed3108]

Website for Celestia Condominiums on Centrum. Sales office will open this spring. Sounds like a 6-storey one.

http://www.celestiacondos.com/


Where on Centrum?

Looking at the diagram

http://www.articipate.ca/vm/newvisual/attachments/769/documents/Orleans%20Town%20Centre%20Concept%20Plan-web.pdf

I am guessing building J perhaps????

[IntoTheCore]

http://www.articipate.ca/vm/newvisual/attachments/769/documents/Orleans%20Town%20Centre%20Concept%20Plan-web.pdf


For a second, I thought I read "35 Storey Parking Structure" on that diagram. Wouldn't that be something! Too bad it's actually "3.5".

[c_speed3108]

For a second, I thought I read "35 Storey Parking Structure" on that diagram. Wouldn't that be something! Too bad it's actually "3.5".

Yes that would be great! The tallest building in Ottawa would be a parking garage in a suburb! :haha:

Should we include an observation deck in the design?

[Cre47]

In the PDF, building J is mentionned to be a senior's residence, but I don't see any indication on the celestia site that it is a senior's residence, it might be a newer building planned not mentionned there.