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Old Posted Aug 9, 2020, 9:00 AM
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Burquitlam/Lougheed plan seems pretty decent. Ottawa completed TOD plans for Stage 1 Confederation stations early on when it was u/c but I don't remember a whole lot of consultation. Lots of high-rises, but not a big focus on walkability/commercial and services. From what's been approved so far, outside the core area, town-centre type developments with retail and services has not been the focus of developers. Mostly towers in a park, almost car-centric.

https://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/do...an_main_en.pdf

For Stage 2, other than again core stations (Bayview, Gladstone, Carling, a little around Sherbourne and New Orchard (two new stations within urban pre-amalgamation Ottawa), Lincoln Fields, spearheaded by the owner, not the City, Algonquin College/Centrepoint area), we haven't seen much planning, if at all. Nothing south of Dow's Lake along Trillium (beyond 2006 plans before the previous N/S rail was cancelled), nothing in Orleans (tough around long-established low density, but park-and-rides, a huge mall, vacant lots and a traditional main street have not been seriously considered for TOD master plans) or the west-end (big box stores near Queensview).

Stage 3 planning for TOD has been even worse. Kanata (a little over 100,000 residents), up until now, has been the most successful suburb (Ontario side of the NCR) in establishing its own employment base, with a high-tech hub in Kanata North consisting of 23,000+ high-paying jobs, and thousands of others near the Palladium Office Park (near the Sens rink) however, transit is still very much suburb-downtown focus with few options to get around the job rich suburb itself. The city has finalized the O-Train route though the area, yet is still approving low-density suburbia around the approved rapid-transit route.

In Barrhaven at least, we've been seeing some decent TOD around the Transitway (built around 2010) and the City is establishing a proper town-centre plan to replace the current big-box-stores and associated parking at its core.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...ttee-1.5370302
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