Official Plan Update - Page 16

McC · #**301** Posted **Feb 8, 2013, 5:04 PM**

@PeterHumeOttawa is soliciting tweets on this right now, must use #liveableottawa

McC · #**302** Posted **Feb 15, 2013, 4:07 PM**

Building a Liveable Ottawa 2031: Preliminary Policy Proposals for the City's update of the Official Plan
https://ottawa.ca/sites/ottawa.ca/fi..._proposals.pdf

eternallyme · #**303** Posted **Feb 15, 2013, 4:30 PM**

Regarding the transportation, here are my thoughts:

* Localize the main street network and focus on in-town development. They shouldn't be simply streets that people pass through on the way to work or amenities. That is a common mistake in a lot of settings. Classic example is Bronson Avenue, which should be detached somehow from the Airport Parkway as they are functionally incompatible (neighbourhood mainstreet vs. expressway).

* Focus the main transit routes on mainstreets to encourage greater use in those areas and to bring more people to live, work, shop and play in those corridors and stations.

* Be realistic. Even the most aggressive plans will still require road reconstruction and new corridors, but they should be strategic. People and goods - including buses - will still need to flow across the city.

waterloowarrior · #**304** Posted **Mar 13, 2013, 11:24 PM**

article on the Walton lands
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2013/...medium=twitter

Proof Sheet · #**305** Posted **Mar 14, 2013, 12:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

article on the Walton lands
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2013/...medium=twitter

Excellent article and good to see where the actual holdings are.....anyone want to place a bet on when the 1st actual 'product' will emerge from the cornfields/urban scrub that bears any resemblance to the plans that are being prepared....I'm in for 2030....any takers?

Anybody know which planning/engineering consulting firms are doing the heavy lifting on this?

waterloowarrior · #**306** Posted **Mar 14, 2013, 12:40 AM**

MMM Group according to the lobbyist registry (keyword - "smart growth")... although the "lobbyist" in question now works for the City

Dr.Z · #**307** Posted **Mar 14, 2013, 2:06 PM**

Hahaha, Walton is so funny. It's totally a glamed progress report to show their investors that "progress" is being made on their investments. If this ever comes to pass the time period will be so long that the ROI will stink. But I'm guessing Walton can produce only so many rosy reports in the interim.

waterloowarrior · #**308** Posted **Mar 15, 2013, 9:45 PM**

follow-up by reevely
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2013/...lton-is-up-to/

Dado · #**309** Posted **Mar 15, 2013, 11:31 PM**

Seems like Reevely has had it with Ken.

Ottawan · #**310** Posted **Mar 16, 2013, 2:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dado

Seems like Reevely has had it with Ken.

Can you blame David Reevely? Gray's recent post was not only the normal cranky and cantankerous, but bordering on the libellous. I haven't seen him go after anyone with that vigour other than ourselves (skyscrappers, as he calls us) and Hobbes.

Interesting that he always goes after people who are not in a position to properly defend themselves, isn't it?

Dr.Z · #**311** Posted **Mar 18, 2013, 1:49 PM**

Ack - there is no story on Walton. There are too many conditions (like the Province and Feds ponying up 2/3 of the LRT extension cost?) and it can't be done with the current PPS and I don't see the new PPS being radically different. Even Walton's letter gets it wrong when they note planning application. You can't make an application for what they want.

waterloowarrior · #**312** Posted **Mar 19, 2013, 11:41 PM**

lots of new reports to devour
http://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/agdoc...&itemid=118254

rakerman · #**313** Posted **May 11, 2013, 11:25 AM**

http://ottawa.ca/liveableottawa

- indicate on a map of Ottawa locations that need pedestrian and cycling improvements

deadline June 7, 2013

Also see info page on DevelopingOttawa

http://developingottawa.ca/index.php...iveable_Ottawa

Capital Shaun · #**314** Posted **May 11, 2013, 4:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by rakerman

http://ottawa.ca/liveableottawa

- indicate on a map of Ottawa locations that need pedestrian and cycling improvements

deadline June 7, 2013

Also see info page on DevelopingOttawa

http://developingottawa.ca/index.php...iveable_Ottawa

Did it yesterday.

I didn't know until now that the city was planning a bikeway network beyond the East-West portion already announced.

waterloowarrior · #**315** Posted **Jun 19, 2013, 2:05 AM**

OPA will be tabled next week http://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/mtgvi...doctype=AGENDA

waterloowarrior · #**316** Posted **Sep 24, 2013, 2:11 PM**

Draft infrastructure master plan now online
http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public...re-master-plan

waterloowarrior · #**317** Posted **Nov 6, 2013, 9:38 PM**

Big meeting on Friday. Tons of interesting docs if you are a planner/planning geek like me.

http://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/mtgvi...&itemid=311677

waterloowarrior · #**318** Posted **Nov 13, 2013, 5:55 AM**

Keeping planning (sort of) out of the hands of politicians and the public
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2013/...nd-the-public/

Proof Sheet · #**319** Posted **Nov 13, 2013, 12:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

Keeping planning (sort of) out of the hands of politicians and the public
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2013/...nd-the-public/

Interesting article and better than some of his obsessiveness about dubious lobbyist registrations.

waterloowarrior · #**320** Posted **Nov 22, 2013, 4:44 PM**

lots of OP motions for Council to consider on Nov 26th
http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public...amend-official