PARKS COMMITTEE

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lansdowne Park remains a potential crown jewel of Canada’s capital if planned right locally. This past year, the GCA Parks Committee engaged in the GCA’s effort to advocate that the Lansdowne 2.0 plan not go [...]

After a decade of advocacy by the GCA, and again with thanks to Councillor Menard and his predecessors, the City has created this park with a senior citizen-focus. Stay tuned for adult exercise equipment in [...]

The GCA is excited about any opportunity to increase urban park space and improve seamless active transportation routes downtown. The Glebe is far below the City's parkland standard of 2 hectares per 1000 population; global [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Parks Report to GCA Feb 2015