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Leitrim Road Realignment

New updated content: 2018-02-26 18:01:20 February 22 (Greenbelt) Paul attended, reporting that a final draft was presented by the consultants retained by the City for this Environmental Impact Study. The draft incorporates a number of proposals and suggestions that were made at previous consultations but still proposes an alignment that runs through the Greenbelt lengthwise through its narrowest reach, causing significant habitat   fragmentation compared to the more southerly route proposed

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Paul Johanis February 26, 2018 November 26, 2024

Chalk River Letter

New updated content: 2018-02-26 18:01:20 We signed on, with eight other local organizations, to a letter to MP Greg Fergus providing additional information on the nuclear waste being stored at Chalk River and proposing a meeting to fully brief him on the dangers of the current decommissioning plan. New updated content: 2018-04-23 11:06:41 Chalk River update, April 23 event We signed on to a  letter to the International Atomic Energy Association

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Paul Johanis February 26, 2018 November 26, 2024

Goulbourn wetlands boundary changes

New updated content: 2018-02-26 18:01:19 We wrote to the Chairman of the Environment and Climate Protection Committee explaining what has been happening and requesting that he look into enacting an interim control bylaw to prevent further wetland loss. Response from staff indicate that this mechanism is not applicable in this case and that enforcement of wetland protection rests with the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority. The only real option seems to be

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Paul Johanis February 26, 2018 November 26, 2024

Order-in-Council on land transfers

On December 15, 2017, the government passed Order-in-Council P.C. 2017-1684 which set out a number of land transfers and related matters; the Order includes Schedules A to O (1.8 MB). The Order always refers to Windmill as “Windmill Dream Zibi Master LP, by its general partner, Windmill Dream Limited Partnership, by its general partner, EB Eddy Sustainable Revitalization Inc.”  This suggests that any land transfer from Eddy to Windmill/Dream has

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DevAdmin February 23, 2018 June 24, 2024

Planning the new hospital (1)

While the Official Plan and Zoning By-law amendments remain an open file at City Hall, the Hospital has moved swiftly to “turn the page” in its dealing with the community. First, it commissioned a report by two respected experts in public engagement, Don Lenihan and Grégoire Jodouin: Setting the Stage, Turning the Page (September 20, 2017, 36 pp., 2.6 MB). The report sets out a strategy of deliberate engagement. Then

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DevAdmin February 2, 2018 June 24, 2024

December 12, 2017 Public Information Session, Area 2

At an information session on December 12, 2017, Richcraft presented high level concepts for the development of Area 2, an urban expansion study area brought in by Official Plan Amendment 76 (OPA76), as confirmed by an OMB decision in 2013 following extensive appeals. Coming out of the previous information session on this project in December 2015, the feeling was that there was very little developable land on this parcel once

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Erwin Dreessen December 14, 2017 October 7, 2024

Related: Ted Cooper’s dismissal and reinstatement

On May 9, 2013, the City of Ottawa terminated Ted Cooper’s employment as a water resources engineer “for just cause.” His union (the Civic Institute of Professional Personnel) grieved on his behalf and arbitration hearings were held during three days in 2013, six days in 2014 and two more in January 2015.  A decision was issued on September 30, 2015. At the request of developers, Ted had been taken off

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DevAdmin August 13, 2017 October 7, 2024

RONA application

Planning manager Don Herweyer wrote to planner Sally Switzer on July 4, 2007: Sally, I spoke to Erwin Dreessen today regarding the RONA application that is currently on circulation. Mr. Dreessen would like clarification on a number of points including the following: 1) Does the proposed development intrude into the 1982 floodplain limit? 2) If it does it would be premature for the City to consider approving the development. I

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iWEBAPP August 10, 2017 October 7, 2024

Chalk River radioactive waste disposal facility

At our May 2017 monthly meeting, Ole Hendrickson, on behalf of Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area, presented slides on Radioactive Wastes at Chalk River Laboratories. The deadline for comments was originally set for August 3, but the French version of the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was not available until later, so the deadline is now August 16.  Here is the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission‘s press release of

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DevAdmin August 7, 2017 October 7, 2024

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