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Bringing some density to the suburbs... here are some upcoming condo/stacked townhouse projects:
-Riverside South Terrace homes. 136 units. Earl Armstrong & Canyon Walk. (http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=...cl=1&encType=1) -Woodroffe Estates Terraces. 213 units. Directly east of Strandherd Transitway station. (http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=...cl=1&encType=1) -Minto Chapman Mills condo flats. 160 units. 40 Barnstone (Cresthaven & Strandherd) (http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=...cl=1&encType=1) -Java at Findlay Creek- Phase 2. 60 units. Bank & White Alder (http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=...cl=1&encType=1) (Sorry, Findlay Creek is not available in Bird's Eye). |
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 |
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/cit...s/image004.gif |
speaking of churches, here's a couple of interesting ones for sale in Hawksbury.. (late 1950s/mid 1960s)
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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.
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Making the grade: new high school in Barrhaven
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/s...rontviewXL.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/s...viewMedium.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 |
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^No, it's actually 6am. They're eager to learn.
Yes, it is a good-looking building. Wish I'd gone to school there. |
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not suburban, but interesting nonetheless
Committee approves eight-storey Carp seniors' residence, despite height concerns http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Co...608/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 |
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.
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KanataWest Business Park
KanataWest Business Park
http://www.kanatawest.com The overall plan: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2503/...e49ca7_o_d.jpg And here's what's planned for the 60 acre parcel: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2575/...fa8ea2_o_d.jpg (image credits: DCYSA Architects) |
some playfair/kilborn news...
http://norezone.wordpress.com/2009/0...ctive-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! |
Mini-hospital coming to Orleans in 2012
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august p&e agenda is up, almost all suburban stuff
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