Subject: Press Release: Lansdowne 2.0 financials and need for greater transparency around costs and risks Please find enclosed a Press Release related to Lansdowne 2.0 which goes to Joint Committee on Nov. 2nd of next week. Note that late today, the City released the 2023 Lansdowne Annual Report (for year ending March 31st, 2023), i.e. almost [...]
UPDATED Fact Check for Councillors: Lansdowne 2.0 is the most expensive project you are being asked to vote on in this term of Council. Lansdowne 2.0: Half a billion dollars of City spending At the end of the day, Lansdowne 2.0 is likely to cost the City at least $500M. The $419.1M for the [...]
175 Third Avenue Ottawa, K1S 2K2 September 14, 2023 Krishon Walker City Planner City of Ottawa Re: Comments regarding proposed OPA and Rezoning of Lansdowne Park I am writing on behalf of the Glebe Community Association to provide comments on the proposed rezoning and official plan amendments for 945 and 1015 Bank Street. These [...]
Lansdowne 2.0: Renewed call for transparency with less than 6 weeks to go Letter to Mayor RE Lansdowne 2.0
In April 2023, GCA endorsed the position of the GCA Parks Committee that Lansdowne 2.0 not go forward until significant parkland deficit issues are addressed. The Glebe is deemed by the City to be deficient in parkland for its existing population (the current parkland standard of 2 ha per 1000 population and Glebe’s 13,000 [...]
Ottawa prides itself internationally as being a winter city. A winter city should provide its citizens and visitors with the opportunity to access and enjoy its parks year-round. In Ottawa, this is not always the case. For example, Central Park West and East from Bank Street represent approximately one third of the Glebe’s park space [...]
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 [...]