This year, the Parks Committee spearheaded a GCA motion facilitating a consensus approach to the piloting of a boarded hockey rink in Sylvia Holden Park that aimed to address the concerns of residents living adjacent to the park and potentially preserve the four-season use of its main lawn. The City is moving forward with a [...]
Ottawa, like cities across North America, continues to face a shortage of social housing solutions for its population’s unhoused citizens. Some unhoused citizens, many with underlying health conditions which require additional help, are turning to their city's parks for shelter. This is not the intended or legal use of these parks, and not safe for [...]
In 2024-2025, the Parks Committee organized the annual park clean-up and renewed Adopt-a-Park agreements with the City. In addition, it worked with the Environment Committee to explore new “Tiny Forests” for Glebe green spaces, and tackle invasive plants removal in Glebe parks.
In 2024-2025, the GCA Parks Committee worked with the City Councillor to designate Sylvia Holden Park and Brown’s Inlet as the next locations for better receptacles for dog waste, sorted recycling, garbage and other organics, and improve portable toilet access in Memorial Park. In addition, it provided support to the Glebe Annex Community Association [...]
In 2024-2025, the GCA Parks Committee worked with the city to improve its soil risk management and design plan for Lionel Britton Park and pursue mitigation of damage and vandalism that has been occurring at Exploration Park and other spaces. It initiated a garden maintenance agreement for Exploration Park and awaits completion of the city’s [...]
The Glebe Community Association’s Annual Park Clean-Up 2025 Part of the City of Ottawa’s Spring Cleaning the Capital programme Helping to Keep Glebe Parks Safe, Clean, Green, and Fun! What and Where: The Glebe Community Association’s annual park clean-ups, part of the City of Ottawa’s Spring Cleaning the Capital programme, at each of our neighborhood’s [...]
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 [...]