Groundwork laid for Odawa centre redevelopment
By Derek Spalding, OTTAWA CITIZEN November 12, 2013
OTTAWA — There is plenty of work to be done before the site of the former Odawa Native Friendship Centre will see towering condos built on it, but a rezoning approval has inched the project forward.
The city’s planning committee agreed to change the zoning at the site at 12 Stirling Ave. in Hintonburg, allowing for both commercial and residential development, instead of the previous institutional use.
Rezoning will allow the four-storey brick Odawa building, which was a school before the friendship centre took it over, to be restored and used for offices. Meanwhile, developer Morley Hoppner can push ahead with plans to redevelop the remainder of the site.
Those plans include a condo complex that incorporates the 80-year-old Odawa building and is complete with a 19-storey tower beside it. The condo development is on hold, however, because of ongoing work to create a new community-design plan for the area. That process is expected late this year or in early 2014.
The location could be ideal for high-density residential, considering it is about 600 metres from both the Bayview and Tunney’s Pasture transit stations, but a height variance will be required before approval is given.
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