Happy spring everyone! The Glebe Community Association’s annual park clean-ups, part of the City of Ottawa’s Spring Cleaning the Capital programme, are underway, most taking place this year on Saturday, May 13 starting at 10:00 a.m. (pouring rain date: Sunday, May 14). These events have always been great opportunities for neighbours to gather for some [...]
Lansdowne Park 2.0: Community Stakeholders call for informed and meaningful Public Consultations before new Council makes any further decisions Mayor Sutcliffe and his new Council are facing hard decisions over the future of Lansdowne Park. OSEG (Ottawa Sports & Entertainment Group) wants a new deal with the city. The City is being asked to [...]
At the end of January, the GCA was invited to participate in a public meeting on the future of Lansdowne Park hosted by a community organization called Parkways for People. Carolyn Mackenzie (GCA Planning Chair) participated in this meeting with Councillor Menard that focused on desired outcomes of the future of Lansdowne Park and ways [...]
In recent months the GCA Parks Committee has been engaged with neighbours concerned with vehicular parking by film production crews and staging of off-duty/“base-camp” film crews. These residents have also met with Councillor Menard's office and have been pleased with the response they have received. On January 24, 2023 the GCA Board passed a [...]
The GCA Parks Committee has had several meetings over the last few months where, at the request of neighbours of Brown’s Inlet Park, we have heard about their concerns about protecting the park’s long-term health, usability, and culture. At the December Parks Committee meeting, neighbours came together again and, with collaboration from the community [...]
In the spring of 2021, the city approved a plan to update the expiring play structure at Glebe Community Centre. This was made possible by fundraising efforts by The Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group (GNAG), Glebe Cooperative Nursery Schl, Ward 17 Cash in-Lieu of Parkland, and Community Partnership Funding. Construction is planned to start in Summer [...]
Following up on the GCA Parks Committee recommendation made in June 2021 to the city’s public consultation on the parkette at 635 O’Connor Street at Fifth Avenue next to Fire Station Number 12 in the Glebe, along with efforts to proceed with such engagement at the community level (see October, 2022 Parks Committee Report below), [...]
Notwithstanding delays due in part to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020-2022 and resulting supply chain issues, construction of the newly created parkette at 625 O’Connor Street at Fifth Avenue next to Fire Station Number 12 in the Glebe is set to begin in the Spring and Summer of 2022. Having pushed for the creation of [...]
After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the GCA Parks Committee was pleased to renew its efforts to mobilize grassroots community energy to help out in keeping our neighbourhood’s city parks clean and safe as part of the City’s Spring Cleaning the Capital programme. On Saturday, May 14, 2022, park clean-ups were undertaken across the Glebe.
The GCA Parks Committee continued its work in the winter and spring of 2022 on the City’s current Parkland Dedication By-law Review and Replacement process as part of a broader inter-community effort organized through the Federation of Community Associations (FCA): the Parkland Dedication - FCA Working Group. The fundamental goal of this work is to [...]
