Lansdowne Park Redevelopment Phase 1 | Completed

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Update on OMB hearing with the Glebe BIA and a former (and disgruntled) councillor (who is executive director of the BIA) who is one of the appelants

Lansdowne appeals going to OMB in May


Ottawa Citizen February 10, 2011



The appeals to the Ontario Municipal Board over the redevelopment of Lansdowne Park are slated to begin on May 9 and expected to last for more than three weeks.

The OMB held a pre-hearing session at City Hall on Thursday to lay the ground work for the appeal, a process that whittled the number of appellants to 12 from 14. The next pre-hearing conference will be in March.

The OMB will hear appeals based solely on zoning issues. The Glebe BIA is one of the appellants. Its executive director, former Kitchissippi ward councillor Christine Leadman, said she did not believe that the scale of the Lansdowne redevelopment — a partnership between the city and the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group — complied with the city’s zoning policies. She also said the project was too big to be allowed with a mere “re-zoning,” and instead required an amendment of the city’s official plan, a much more onerous process.

The OMB appeals are not to be confused with the Friends of Lansdowne court challenge, in which it charges that the city violated its own procurement rules by going ahead with the OSEG bid. That case is scheduled to start in April.

Construction on the Lansdowne site is scheduled to begin this summer.