LRT Extension through the Greenbelt and Beyond Road ecology Road through Stony Swamp Kanata North Urban Expansion Area (Area 1) Tree cutting incident of July 2014 and its aftermath Greenspace Alliance appeals OPA 173 and location of Stormwater Pond *Outcome of our appeal: A settlement and a loss South March Highlands Urban Expansion Area (Area…
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Goulbourn Wetlands Complex Chalk River radioactive waste disposal facility Chaudière Islands Ottawa on-side with Windmill (October 2014) Chaudière Islands: A letter (26 Jan 2016) & updates Order-in-Council on land transfers (December 2017)
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…
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,…
With Stage 1 of the LRT expected to come into service in 2018, construction on its extension in Stage 2 is planned to start in 2019. This will take the LRT through the Greenbelt and beyond and so raises concerns for its impact on greenspace and wetlands along the way. Due to an unforeseen budget…
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…
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…
Please find below elements of the January 2014 Environmental Study Report for the Hope Side Road/Old Richmond Road (Terry Fox Drive to Highway 416) Class Environmental Assessment: + the main report (5.8 MB, 90 pp.) + Appendix F – Landscape Assessment and Evaluation report (“Context Sensitive Design and Landscape Report”) – 4.2 MB, 16 pp. +…
April 19, 2017 Ken McRae reports: I was informed today that the MVCA had appealed the decision of a local Justice of the Peace to not order landowner Mion and his numbered company to rehabilitate the part of the Goulbourn Wetlands Complex on his property which he had destroyed. The MVCA won the appeal. I’ve…
The Sir John Carling site now destined to receive the new Civic Hospital campus is not quite the same site that was considered earlier. The Hospital’s 2007 evaluation exercise provided no specific definition for any site but in the 2016 report for the Hospital by HDR, the SJC site was described as “Located on the…