Category: NCC – FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

At its meeting of November 20, 2013, the NCC’s Board of Directors approved the Greenbelt Master Plan.  The final plan is here. A year later, on November 19, 2014, the Board approved an implementation plan (report and slides, 3.4 MB) which boiled the Master Plan’s 279 actions down to seven priorities: Greenbelt Visual Identity at entrances Greenbelt Branding, Communication & Marketing Strategy Visitor Services & Interpretation Restore Natural Lands Ecological Corridors

[page under development] In late 2008 the National Capital Commission announced that it would begin a process of review of its 1996 Master Plan for the Greenbelt.  The Review was due to be completed in 2012. Under the leadership of Alliance member Sol Shuster, a Greenbelt Coalition was formed in the fall of 2008 to provide a strong community-based voice in the NCC’s review.  The Coalition comprised virtually all the

MYTH 1 Development jumped the Greenbelt, so the Greenbelt failed. REALITY This is one of the most widespread Ottawa myths about the Greenbelt. While Jacques Gréber in his 1950 report significantly underestimated the future growth of the capital region, he did foresee that growth outside the Greenbelt would take place. His idea was that these outlying urban communities would be relatively self-sufficient – in essence, have approximately equal numbers of

May 29, 2007 From the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper web site (and thanks to Meg Sears for signaling it), dated May 28, 2007. In several major fights for the protection of greenspace in Ottawa, the federal Fisheries Act has played and continues to play a major role — Leitrim Wetland and the Carp River Floodplain among them: One of Canada’s most powerful and precious environmental protections could be disarmed during a

August 2015 Al Crosby writes: One of the points that we failed to get across to the city, and by extension CLC, was the fact that we are not only talking about specific green goals and objectives of future developments. We should have stressed the point that there is an economic value to retaining natural habitat. Developers seem to be destroying the “natural” capital that is provided to us for

PDF version of this paper GREENBELT COALITION OF CANADA’S CAPITAL REGION Position Paper for the NCC’s Greenbelt Master Plan Review September 2010 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose 1.2 Background 1.3 Historical summary 1.4 The 1996 Greenbelt Master Plan 2 THE GREENBELT COALITION’S VISION AND GOALS 3 GREENBELT VALUES 3.1 Aesthetic values 3.2 Public ownership values 3.3 Environmental values 3.4 Agricultural values 3.5 Lifestyle and recreational values

Preface Myths and Realities City Hall White Paper and rebuttal (May-September 2008) Greenbelt Coalition Position Paper (September 2010) *Opposition to a trade centre at Uplands Drive and Lester Road *Submission to MNR on the Lester Road wetland Greenbelt Master Plan approved (November 2013)