Parks

At its October 26, 2021 meeting, the GCA Board passed a Parks Committee motion which urged that the City, in its consideration of a project proposed at 770 and 774 Bronson Avenue, and other like it, continue in good faith to work to ensure that new developments be approved that: - are consistent with the [...]

The city is almost ready to break ground on the planned parkette at the corner of Fifth and O’Connor (next to the Fire Station Number 12). The designs, including the idea that this be a park centred on the needs of senior citizens in particular, take into account ideas articulated by the committee and the [...]

In June, the GCA Board passed a Parks Committee motion to provide the City of Ottawa with its feedback on the City of Ottawa’s first-ever combined Parks and Recreation Facilities Master Plan (PRFMP) in support of the new Official Plan (OP). The draft PRFMP contains recommendations about new and existing parks and recreation facilities to [...]

In the draft Parks and Recreation Facilities Master Plan (which is going to the Community and Protective Services Committee and City Council in September, 2021 for approval) City staff are recommending that pickleball court lines be added on all existing and new public tennis courts. In June, the GCA Board passed a Parks Committee [...]

Due to provincial health measures forbidding larger gatherings in parks, the Spring Parks Clean-Ups planned on the weekend of May 15, 2021 did not go ahead. We look forward to renewing our Fall and Spring cleanups as physical distancing measures are relaxed.  

In April, the GCA Parks Committee reported to the GCA Board the committee's majority position opposing on principle any permanent or seasonal commercial project in City-owned or NCC-owned Glebe parks, including the proposed Bistro at Patterson Creek Park, subject to a full and extensive engagement in meaningful consultation by the City and/or the NCC with [...]

Parks have played an important role in enabling residents to get outside for fresh air and exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic. This has understandably increased the amount of park use and take-out waste, and consequently garbage overflow, in park garbage containers. The GCA approved a Parks Committee motion in April asking that the City establish [...]

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 [...]