On Tuesday, Nov. 15, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will host a Richmond Road Complete Street & Byron Linear Park Renewal Public Consultation and Workshop.
The event will run from 6pm to 9pm and feature opening remarks from Jeff, presentations, and a workshop. The workshop part will be the latest opportunity for public input for this project.
It was a busy City Council meeting for Kitchissippi yesterday and I thought it would be useful to provide a quick wrap-up of the highlights. I’ve stressed the budget for most of this post, but skip further down for updates on for yesterday’s discussion on Planning Advisory Committees, urban camping, and the 307 Richmond heritage approval.
Budget
The key item, of course, was the budget.
Thanks to everyone who attended our #BudgetSpeak2016 event in October. The budget will be tabled tomorrow, November 9. As we wait for that document, here's the summary of the #BudgetSpeak event recently distributed to participants.
Sent on behalf of Councillors David Chernushenko, Mathieu Fleury, Jeff Leiper, Catherine McKenney and Tobi Nussbaum
Thank you for participating in BudgetSpeak 2016 on Oct. 13.
This morning, Ontario’s Premier Kathleen Wynne announced that the provincial government will introduce legislation to allow cities to use speed cameras and reduce speed limits in school zones. Councillors Catherine McKenney (Somerset) and Jeff Leiper (Kitchissippi) applaud this intiative, which reflects a longstanding desire on the part of residents of both wards for safer streets.
Residents have become increasingly concerned about repeated violent and disruptive incidents at the corner of Bayswater/Somerset and its immediate area. Most recently very early Saturday morning, there was a stabbing. This follows the discharge of a firearm at the corner on October 21.
After a five-month delay, our office has learned the sewer lining work along Hinton Avenue North between Tyndall Street and Wellington Street will go ahead next week.
The contractor will be bringing equipment to the intersection of Hinton and Tyndall on Monday, Nov. 7, to prepare for the work which is set to begin Tuesday. The project is expected to take three full days to complete.
BACKGROUNDER
Public Art Sculpture at Parkdale Park to undergo conservation/construction
Those who have been following the progress on the proposed development at 1976 Scott St, 315 Tweedsmuir Ave and 320 McRae Ave should have received an updated circulation package recently. If you haven’t but you are interested in taking a look at the new plans, you can find them on DevApps by clicking here and we've attached the site plan and renderings as PDFs at the bottom of this post
City staff have been working for a little more than a year now on the Urban Forest Management Plan with the goal of looking for ways to protect, maintain, and enhance the urban forest -- all trees and their habitat within the urban area boundary, both public and private.
While the city has many policies in place to regulate our trees, this plan will provide a long-term vision we've never had before.
Today at Council, notice was made of a motion to come to our next Council meeting on November 9 to allow camping at several locations - including Tom Brown arena - from June 29 to July 4 in 2017. We're expecting a lot of visitors to Ottawa, and reasonably-priced hotel accomodations are already hard to find.