The National Capital Commission is looking to establish a new urban park in Ottawa. The federal government, through Parks Canada, launched in 2021 a $130 million project to create a network of national urban parks, and is now searching for a proper location on NCC land in Ottawa. A local effort is being undertaken by [...]
Like all North American cities, Ottawa continues to face a shortage of social housing solutions for the population’s unhoused, many of whom find themselves without shelter due to other, underlying health issues. The GCA Parks Committee continues to monitor this issue, calling for the city to designate a supervised, safe, green, tented (or otherwise), clean [...]
The enjoyment of city parks is enhanced by the safe, clean, and regular disposal of garbage, recycling, and other waste that might otherwise be left in garbage cans that tend to overfill. Such diversion is beneficial to the environment, including the preservation of landfill site space, recycling of single-use paper, plastic, and metals, and biofuels [...]
The GCA Parks Committee is working with representatives of the Lowertown Community Association (LCA) in an effort to give the City’s heritage designations for parks more teeth. Landscaping, maintenance, restoration, rehabilitation and installations (memorial benches and trees, new benches and trees in general, accessibility infrastructure, pathways, etc.) in heritage-designated parks requires a set of standards [...]
Lansdowne Park remains a potential crown jewel of Canada’s capital if planned right locally. This past year, the GCA Parks Committee engaged in the GCA’s effort to advocate that the Lansdowne 2.0 plan not go forward until parkland deficit issues were addressed, participating in October’s Let’s Talk Lansdowne, and preparing a brief in aid of [...]
After a decade of advocacy by the GCA, and again with thanks to Councillor Menard and his predecessors, the City has created this park with a senior citizen-focus. Stay tuned for adult exercise equipment in this and other parks to promote physical and mental well-being. Since 2020, the Parks Committee has pressed the City to [...]
The GCA is excited about any opportunity to increase urban park space and improve seamless active transportation routes downtown. The Glebe is far below the City's parkland standard of 2 hectares per 1000 population; global warming (and burning) demands action on clean transportation alternatives. The Bronson/Chamberlain construction project presents an opportunity to do both. Motions [...]