Category: MAJOR URBAN

On 26 November 2012, Canada Lands Company (CLC) restarted discussions with the public about the development of CFB Rockcliffe. The initial public meeting was called an “Ideas Fair” and the official CLC Rockcliffe Lands website is at: http://www.clcrockcliffe.ca/ At this site under NEWS, you can read more about this public presentation, but under LEARN MORE > RESOURCE LIBRARY there is the Ideas Fair Report and other details on the Public

Following a settlement with the Algonquins of Ontario earlier this year, Canada Lands Corporation acquires the 127-hectare former airbase for $27.2 million from DND. Copy of the Ottawa Citizen story here – “Crown agency buys former base” 26 May 2011.” 26 May 2011. R. Sibley, “$10M deal struck on CFB Rockcliffe land; Algonquins to get say in property development”, Ottawa Citizen, 25 March 2011 [no longer online].

19 January 2008 Canada Lands Company (CLC) has stopped working on this project. Several newspaper articles were written in 2007 explaining why the Rockcliffe Development has been put in abeyance. You may recall the initial week long series describing the development three years ago beginning November 26, 2005. Basically, the old Rockcliffe Airbase is part of a native land claim that is still unresolved. The Canada Lands vice-president for real

15  April 2007 ROCKCLIFFE REDEVELOPMENT – Community Design Plan Success Indicators for Greenspace Preservation Following my previous request to the GA members for your ideas on success indicators to measurer the greenspace objective of the Rockcliffe Community Design Plan, I did receive 4 replies and one offer of assistance. Three suggestions are shown below: 1. green space area / population 2. green space dispersion; and 3. vegetated interior conditions. On