What hotel near the Complexe sportif?

I think he meant the Holiday Inn near Centre Slush Puppie, which was built a few years ago. All prefab, and that went up very quick.

Is 'Centre Slush Puppie' the real name of an arena ?

Yes. I suppose if you weren't used to the name the 'Canadian Tire Centre' would be just about as odd though.

If you are referring to the lot that I outlined in red, it will be a future elementary school with child care services.

Also, "anywhere" on Earl Armstrong isn't necessarily any better as route 99 turns north on Spratt and runs through the existing community between Earl Armstrong and Limebank. So there is currently no transit (besides peak period routes) on Earl Armstrong. This may change when the O-train is completed to Limebank.

https://i.imgur.com/xUhiY9s.png

Say what you want about Jan Harder and what she has, and hasn't done, but the proposed site isn't even in her ward. It's in ward 22: Gloucester-South Nepean.

Seems like a terrible spot for an Elementary School. They are usually built in the middle of residential neighbourhoods to keep kids away from busy main drags.

^ That vacant lot at Earl Armstrong & Spratt is the site of the future Riverside South OCDSB High School.

Thanks for the info! A public school board high school is definitely due in this community.

Ok, thanks for the info. High School makes far more sense than an Elementary School on that corner.

More warehouses near Amazon Boundary location:
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...mand-1.6036368

Day and Ross
https://devapps.ottawa.ca/en/applica...1-0005/details

Avenue 31
https://devapps.ottawa.ca/en/applica...0-0025/details

^ I wish Avenue31 would develop their site at Hunt Club & 417 before leapfrogging out to Boundary Rd.

Phase 1 of that project is underway this summer... will take a little while for Boundary Road to go through the OPA process
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...wpost&t=242719

Good stuff. I think I did notice some work starting last night.

I don't have a problem with Boundary Rd as a logistics hub, but if we're going to create a node with a bunch of low wage jobs several kilometers from the city, we could at least provide some transit service.

It would be very easy to set up a bus going from Cyrville station every 15 minutes all the way to Vars and develop park and rides at Anderson, Boundary and Rockdale (large industrial park there as well)

$9.1M lawsuit claims city hall short-changed a developer that built Kanata-area roundabout
Suit claims that the intersection of Campeau Drive and Palladium Drive should have been a curved road and not a roundabout

Jon Willing, Ottawa Citizen
Publishing date: Jun 02, 2021 • 53 minutes ago • 3 minute read

The city is stiffing a local developer out of $9.1-million in construction costs while claiming that a roundabout near the Tanger Outlets shouldn’t have been built in the first place, according to a lawsuit revealing a peculiar dispute over roadwork in the Kanata area.

The lawsuit, filed by West Ottawa Land Holdings, includes several eyeopening allegations against city hall, including claims that a project numbering error is at the root of the fight and that the intersection of Campeau Drive and Palladium Drive should have been a curved road and not a roundabout.

None of the allegations in the lawsuit has been tested in court.

The city’s legal department declined to comment on the suit, which is standard practice when it comes to litigation.

Lawyers for West Ottawa Land Holdings also declined to comment since the matter is before the court.

It means the particularly head-scratching allegation about the roundabout is left without much explanation, other than the one that the lawsuit offers.

The fight dates back to 2016 when West Ottawa Land Holdings and the city signed a subdivision agreement requiring the developer to extend part of Campeau Drive and, apparently, build the roundabout. West Ottawa Land Holdings and RioCan, which isn’t part of the lawsuit, finished the work except for landscaping that they expect to be completed “in or around” 2021.

The expectation that West Ottawa Land Holdings would do the roadwork has a history going back to a 2014 study that established the projects on which development charges would be spent. A 2017 report indicated there weren’t enough funds to pay for the work and recommended that the next development charge study in 2019 account for it.

However, according to the lawsuit, the project never appeared in the 2019 development charge study, which underpins the planning for infrastructure projects that rely on development charge revenue. The 2017 report, which informed the 2019 study, had the incorrect project label. It said Project 44, rather than Project 4A4, the lawsuit says.

The problem with that is Project 44 isn’t scheduled to be paid out until 2026. The city, the lawsuit says, is holding to that timeline.

West Ottawa Land Holdings says the city hasn’t paid a dime for the road and roundabout project, even though it was constructed under the terms of the subdivision agreement.

“Front-ending” agreements between developers and the city are common when municipal infrastructure, such as a new road, is required for a development earlier than what the city has scheduled. The developer builds the infrastructure and is reimbursed by the city according to a timeline.

According to the lawsuit, West Ottawa Land Holdings wanted a front-ending agreement with the city, but the city had failed or refused to establish one, partly leading to this post-construction clash.

The fallout, based on the narrative in the lawsuit, raises questions about what the city had in mind for the final design of the intersection and connecting portion of Campeau Drive.

According to the lawsuit, the city last fall told West Ottawa Land Holdings that the roadwork was “overbuilt” because there should have been two lanes, not four lanes, and there should have been a curved connecting road rather than a roundabout.

“City staff further claimed that they were only obligated to repay the Plaintiffs the costs of building a curved, connecting, two-lane road,” the lawsuit says.

West Ottawa Land Holdings denies the project was overbuilt and says it completed the project according to approved documents. The city was aware and could have sought to revise the design, and in fact, required the developer to have the plan peer-reviewed, the lawsuit says.

West Ottawa Land Holdings, which is affiliated with the Taggart group of companies, has launched a double-barrelled legal attack against the city in an effort to promptly recoup its millions.

The dispute is also in front of the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal when it comes to the 2019 development charge bylaw that didn’t include the costs of the construction work.

The tribunal can make a ruling on the council-approved 2019 development charges bylaw, but potentially not about the issue of reimbursing West Ottawa Land Holdings for the construction work, the lawsuit says.

It all leads to the developer wanting the court to order the city pay a total of $9,152,650.18 to cover engineering, construction, project management and taxes.

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https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...g-a-roundabout

City rethinking commercial tax breaks for Orléans
Focus on highly skilled jobs failed to yield results, councillor says

Kate Porter · CBC News
Posted: Jun 03, 2021 12:06 AM ET | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

The City of Ottawa is revamping tax incentives aimed at attracting highly skilled jobs to Orléans, settling instead for commercial redevelopment that creates full-time positions of any kind.

Long before it targeted Vanier for revitalization, awarding a Porsche dealership there a tax break that could be worth $2.9 million over 10 years, the city created a pair of community improvement plans for Orléans.

One, aimed at the eastern suburb's main commercial strip of St. Joseph Boulevard, has resulted in seven grants since 2009, including a new Farm Boy grocery store that by next year will get back $448,621 of the $640,887 it's paid in taxes since opening in 2012, a rebate of 70 per cent.

The other program offered tax incentives for any redevelopment that lures highly skilled jobs to Orléans, where there are 120,000 residents but few employers. Only a couple of grants have been given since that second program was launched in 2013.

"Neither had the uptake that we would have like to have seen," said Coun. Matt Luloff during a virtual community meeting Wednesday night.

Now, the city will combine both programs to try to lure more jobs, improve St. Joseph Boulevard and encourage street-level businesses to open near the new light rail extension due to arrive in a few years.

Innes ward Coun. Laura Dudas said the revamped program should send the message that the east end is "open for business."

Economic development officer Chris Cope said applicants will have to show that their developments wouldn't go ahead without the city grant.

Cope said the city wasn't having great success attracting knowledge jobs to Orléans, and will instead aim for redevelopment that can create any 20 full-time positions of any kind.

"We simply want jobs. More jobs in Orléans, I think, is a good thing," said Cope.

The tax incentive would be capped at $5 million over a decade.

Cope said staff have mapped out 700 commercial properties in Orléans that could stand to be renewed and would be eligible, but said the city can't "cherry pick" grant recipients.

Because provincial law prevents municipalities from offering other financial incentives, such community improvement plans are one of the few tools the city has to promote economic development, municipal officials say.

Council has decided to put off a cost-benefit analyis of the community improvement program until 2023.

The Orléans community improvement plan goes to the finance and economic development committee July 6, rising to city council the next day.

https://i.imgur.com/wgsKbqy.png


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...vamp-1.6051255

Trim Station has been renamed Tenth Line. Nice! :cool:

I never understood the obsession with getting more high paying jobs to Orleans. It's a bedroom community near downtown with good (and about to get better transit). Nothing wrong with that.

No issues with a continued grant program for St. Joseph. It needs it. Proving that a project would not be built without the grant might be difficult.

Local jobs create vibrancy and opportunity. Workers need to travel less and will spend more locally.