Glebe Parking Garage (170 Second Ave) | 13.m | 4-5 fl | Completed
 

http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public...e-september-19

Three design options

http://ottawa.ca/sites/ottawa.ca/files/glebe_panels.jpg

http://ottawa.ca/sites/ottawa.ca/files/glebe_wave.jpg

http://ottawa.ca/sites/ottawa.ca/files/glebe_curve.jpg

I vote for the first one; "The Panels"

This is a great spot for a garage! It's on the site of an existing surface lot tucked away behind the Metro. I like the 'Panels' one as well.

http://i.imgur.com/XXdvqYx.jpg

Panels!! Looks way better than the other 2 options. Waves looks like a typical parking garage. (ugly)

Yup, panels. It blends in, looking like an infill. That is one fancy garage.

Would the Glebites have it any other way? They SHOULD relatively mum on this one since it takes cars off their streets...but someone in the 'hood will come up with some kind of zany reason to protest it anyhow.

I'm sure that was the design goal with that one. It does look like three tall modern infill houses. Nice job.

The others might look better at higher res where the curves are more visible, but I still think this will be better in context.

I doubt there will be any serious objection from the community. Most residents see this as necessary to keep Bank street merchants competitive with Lansdowne. Of course there will always be someone who objects. There always is with any project anywhere. The difference might be that journalists will seek out Glebe complainers as opposed to Stittsville or Orleans complainers. (Shorter drive from the CBC building?) The Glebe is a neighbourhood people love to hate. It's an easy way to draw people to your website and fill up the comments section.

IMO, some glebites probably think that the new parking will attract even more visitors to the area and disturb their rural way of life.

:whistle:

I thought that they've been wanting and expecting this to be built for years now. :shrug:

More lines at the Farmer's Market interfering with the acquisition of fine Organic veggies could be a problem!

Also this garage had better be GLUTEN FREE!!!!

They have, but that won't stop people from mocking them as if they had in fact opposed it. On the internet you can be criticised for opinions your critics think you have. Somewhere there is a giant straw man glebite burning down to his birkenstocks.

Seems the city flouted the collective wisdom of this forum and chose Curves over Panels.

http://ottawa.ca/sites/ottawa.ca/fil..._parking_3.pdf

They'll rue the day they crossed The Forum.

Glebe wants new city parking garage, city’s planners say

City public-works department says four-storey structure isn’t needed

By David Reevely, OTTAWA CITIZEN January 7, 2014 6:00 PM

OTTAWA — People in the Glebe support a new multi-storey parking garage the city wants to build on a surface lot it owns behind a grocery store, the city’s planning department says.

City council’s planning committee is due to vote on a rezoning the project needs at a meeting next Tuesday.

“Comments indicated that the proposal is an efficient use of space and will help bring activity to the local economy,” reads the report to the planning committee.

The four-level garage “addresses a need for short-term public parking for the Glebe business area,” the report says. The city’s own public-works department, which is in charge of parking, said last year there is actually no real shortage of it in the district, though there might eventually be depending how the area changes over time and how much car traffic spills over from nearby Lansdowne Park.

Council’s transportation committee voted to build it. The rezoning by the planning committee is the next stage of approval.

According to the report, one resident objected that building a four-storey garage is 1980s-style thinking in a city that is ostensibly discouraging private car use as much as it can (by deliberately eliminating a lot of parking at Lansdowne, for instance) and that if the Glebe needs more parking, property developers should put it underground.

“All modes of transportation must be provided that allow for the wider community to access parts of the city if alternate modes are not available to them,” the planners respond. “It is not realistic to think that people do not use their cars. Having a parking garage is a better use of land than multiple surface parking lots.”

The concrete structure, to be built between Second and Third avenues west of Bank Street, is to have trees planted around it and include “an art treatment” on the parts that face neighbours next door. It’s to have 175 spots for cars and 35 spots for bikes. Coun. David Chernushenko wants to call it a “mobility hub” that supports different kinds of transportation. The city’s planners always call it a parking garage.

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here is the city staff report
http://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/mtgvi...&itemid=314686

The Sun's Willing posted a tweet from today's mayoral City Address regarding the parking garage:

:stunned:

ew. what are they? like Ottawa's herpes?

Company being sued for Airport Parkway bridge did design for Glebe parkade

By David Reevely, OTTAWA CITIZEN January 22, 2014 1:04 PM

OTTAWA — The Glebe’s new parkade is to be built to a design by the same company the city is suing over the failed Airport Parkway pedestrian bridge, after city council approved the rezoning the project needs Wednesday.

Genivar, an engineering firm that designed the bridge whose construction the city aborted last summer, is banned from bidding on further city business, but the project was underway before the ban and isn’t included.

The garage is to replace a city-owned surface lot between Second and Third avenues. A study found the Glebe doesn’t have a parking shortage but it might in the future.

The Airport Parkway pedestrian bridge was supposed to be completed in November 2011, but had to be torn down and restarted when the concrete in its signature tower turned out to be faulty. Later, an unorthodox design for the long “stays” that descend from the tower and hold the span in place alarmed the contractor, prompting a redesign.

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FYI Genivar has been renamed to WSP Group

appealed to the OMB (lol)
https://www.omb.gov.on.ca/ecs/CaseDe...spx?n=PL140189