Members of the Parks Committee met in March with staff from Councillor Menard’s office and the City of Ottawa for a discussion of next steps for the Park. Park design is now underway at the city, taking into account ideas articulated by the committee and the community at various opportunities over the years since 2013 [...]
In March, the GCA Board passed a Parks Committee motion designed to help protect City-owned parks from permanent or seasonal commercialization and urging meaningful consultation for any such proposed projects. A second motion, also passed by the Board, reiterated this same call for NCC-owned parks in the Glebe, in particular concerning the proposed Bistro at [...]
The GCA Parks Committee’s input to the GCA’s March 2021 comments on the City of Ottawa Official Plan echoed many of the recommendations put forward in our Evergreen Plan for Glebe Parks. The committee was pleased to see an articulated commitment in the City of Ottawa’s proposed Official Plan 2021 to certain urban design first [...]
The Ward Council will help provide for the kind of transparency with regards to discretionary spending called for by the GCA in its passage of Recommendation 5b) of the GCA Evergreen Parks Plan: that the City of Ottawa and the Capital Ward Councillor should develop a protocol for the allocation, tracking and annual reporting on [...]
In November, the GCA Board passed a Parks Committee Motion which called upon the MTO and the City of Ottawa for a commitment that they actively and transparently consult each other and the affected communities (Glebe and Glebe Annex) on aspects of the Highway 417 Bronson Avenue Interchange and Operational Improvements, Detail Design plan. The [...]
As part of its 2021 municipal budget submission and other advocacy efforts, the GCA emphasized in October the important role that parks have played in enabling residents to get outside for fresh air and exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Through its motion, approved by the GCA Board in October, the Parks Committee backed the GCA’s continued efforts to work for new and replacement sound barriers on both sides of the Queensway as part of improvements to the 417. This same motion pushed for related provincial and city budget considerations for well designed green spaces [...]
In 2020, the Parks Committee completed its work on the Evergreen Plan for Glebe Parks. The Plan captures much of what the committee has worked on in recent years, and imagines a progressive Parks vision for what still needs to be done now and into the future. The GCA Board approved the Plan at [...]
Through the commerative bench program a group of Jennifer Giles' friends have raised the funding necessary to place a memorial tree and bench in Brown’s Inlet Park where she spent many hours with her dogs. The plan for this bench and accessible pathway is attached.
From 2005-07 the City undertook infrastructure renewal of Central Park west of Bank St (CPW). Comparable work was not undertaken for Central Park East (CPE). The community using and surrounding the park has been actively seeking infrastructure renewal for CPE since 2010. Volunteers from the GCA and a community-led Friends of CPE group have engaged [...]
