The City of Ottawa is planning a sidewalk for the south side of Dovercourt and will be flyering the area soon about an open house to be held July 31 at the Dovercourt Recreation Centre. Just in case you miss the flyer or don't live in the immediate neighbourhood, here it is!
Open House
Tuesday, July 31, 2018, Dovercourt Recreation Centre
411 Dovercourt Ave, Ottawa, K2A 0S9
6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. (Drop-In)
Dear Resident,
We have two updates on the 417 widening work and some traffic impacts.
Scheduled to begin on August 7, the Carling Avenue 417 Westbound on-ramp will be closed for a minimum of nine weeks. Signage will be present advising motorists of the ramp closure and providing alternate access points to the highway westbound. If any changes to this scheduled closure arise, we will notify residents as soon as possible. The MTO does not anticipate any further long ramp closures this year.
Laroche Park: Community Consultation for Park and Community Building Redevelopment
Last year, we consulted with Kitchissippi Ward on how to spend our Cash-in-Lieu funds. The top priority for the Ward is a new field house for Laroche Park. Over the past several months, we have been pressing staff to begin getting this project underway in earnest, as our CIL funds are building up. In addition to a new field house, there will also be the long-awaited Sens Rink.
Construction is well underway at 1960 Scott St (the Trailhead site), and it continues to have impacts in the neighbourhood. This post highlights a further sidewalk closure that, this time, will affect some cyclists as well, beginning in early August.
Back in May, the City of Ottawa held a Public Information Session about an upcoming reconstruction project on Mailes Avenue.
Tendering of the contract for the Mailes Avenue watermain, sewer, road and sidewalk work will begin in the spring of next year with construction set to start in early summer.
The work will take place on Mailes Avenue between Patricia Avenue and Oakdale Avenue, Island Park Drive between Richmond Road and Mailes Avenue, and Lane 81-V between Mailes Avenue and Rockhurst Road.
The design can be found attached to this post.
You may recall, that as part of the future development at the Mizrahi site (1445-1451 Wellington St W), there will be a new urban park. In May 2016 we hosted community consultations for this new park, and staff have now prepared the final design.
I'd like to give a big thanks to Donna, Rick and Christine who last night organized a community dance at the field house at Van Lang to celebrate school's-out! Thanks, Christine, for sending me some video of the event. I'm sorry I couldn't stay until the dancing got underway in earnest, but looks like a great time had by all!
City Council on Wednesday was a meaty one with multiple substantial issues debated and decided. Here’s what transpired and how I approached the various items.
Chateau Laurier
I want to thank the 50 or so people who came out to the open house on June 19 looking at the site plan application for a 9-storey seniors residence at 1705 Carling Avenue, currently the Webb’s Motel and Rose Bowl. The building is proposed to be a residential care facility and apartments for seniors with 130 and 68 units respectively.
It would have 45 parking spaces located underground, and 25 surface spaces. The residential care facility would have 38 of those spaces, the seniors apartments 27, and five spaces would be given over to visitor parking.
It’s a busy #ottmusic weekend with multiple festivals featuring local music and more!