Please help save Ottawa's skyline!!!
The National Capital Commission (NCC) wants to shut off the lights in our downtown hotels, office towers and condo buildings so that only a select few of the city's landmarks are visible at night.
Ottawa already has an inferiority complex when it comes to our mediocre skyline.We can't allow the NCC to make it worse by erasing the towers from our downtown. We can't allow Ottawa to become nothing more than a sterile "museum" piece with a select few institutional buildings.
We're more than just the capital, we are a real city of a million people. Our skyline must be visible in all its (pedestrian) glory.
Please complete the survey and tell the NCC that you want Ottawa to look like a true and complete urban centre, not just a post card from the 1920s.
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Originally Posted by rocketphish
NCC wants your feedback on its Capital Illumination Plan
Online public consultation on the plan closes Sunday
By: Alex Abdelwahab, Metro
Published on Mon Jul 03 2017
An illustration of the current lighting in downtown Ottawa (above) and the proposed lighting (below) in the NCC's Capital Illumination Plan
It’s time to have your say on the NCC’S Capital Illumination Plan 2017-2027, which is scheduled to launch this year.
The NCC is asking the public’s input on its newly released plan, through a questionnaire on its website, until Sunday, July 9.
The 121-page plan focuses on the downtown core of both Ottawa and Gatineau, but also extends from Metcalfe to the Canadian Museum of Nature, on the Ottawa side.
The plan aims to improve the “nighttime beauty of the Capital” by doing a better job of lighting iconic buildings and monuments on both sides of the river, including the Parliament buildings and Canadian Museum of History, while also reducing energy use.
It divides the type of lighting into six categories, including permanent functional lighting, illumination lighting, and dark-zone lighting. The plan includes parameters for when the specific lighting should be turned on or off and its intensity.
Among the guidelines are to “turn off indoor lighting of office buildings no later than one hour after they are no longer in use and until regular occupancy begins.”
The final plan will be presented to the NCC board of directors this fall.
http://www.metronews.ca/news/ottawa/2017...ck-on-its-capital-illumination-plan.html
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