News & Announcements

Here are the current applications for variances and divisions being heard on Wednesday, March 18th at the Committee of Adjustment.  Please contact Jeff at Jeff.Leiper@ottawa.ca with any questions or concerns you may have.

On Thursday, Ontario's Ministry of Transportation held a public information session to show its preferred approaches to rehabilitatiing or replacing a whack of Queensway bridges from Holland Ave. through the downtown core. In Kitchissippi, those are the Holland, Parkdale, Fairmont, Bayswater and O-Train bridges.

Athlone Avenue from Richmond Road to Byron Avenue will be closed for the day on Wednesday, March 4th. The contractor, Dulepka Equipment Rentals Ltd. will be placing a mobile crane in the roadway to facilitate the delivery and placement of a pre-fabricated home.

No formal detour is required as impact to traffic is expected to be low. Local and emergency vehicle access will be maintained. 

Here at the City, we actually have very few tools to accomplish what residents want. We have on the one hand the ability to spend your money on things, and all the policies that go around that. On the other, we have regulations, which typically take the form of by-laws.

File photo / Ottawa Citizen

Today’s approval by Planning Committee for the heritage designation of Broadview Public School is a positive decision for our community. For nearly 100 years, this campus has served our community, shaping generations of residents and enriching our neighbourhood through its presence. I am happy to see that our city’s heritage is being protected and, more specifically, that an iconic element of our ward in the Highland Park and McKellar Park communities will remain as a sign post pointing to our proud, but rapidly-disappearing past.

Our core roads snow team has provided an update on ploughing. Enjoy your Sunday! I'll be shovelling. Again.

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Good Morning,

Road conditions are in overall good shape. Salt trucks are out on priority roads cleaning up and will continue to monitor and apply material as required, the road conditions are mostly wet to some slushy spots.

Priority and residential sidewalks have been opened up over night. Our day shift will be going over all sidewalk beats again to clean them up and apply salt and or abrasives.

Here's the latest from our snow ops folks. (It's messy on the roads, but it was a delightful afternoon for the walk to Hampton Park to serve some chili. Thanks to Margaret Hillier, Jen Stelzer and Lorne Cutler and the whole Hampton-Iona Community Group for the invite!)

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The Ontario Ministry of Transportation is hosting an information session on February 26 at St. Anthony's Banquet Hall (523 St. Anthony Street) to present its preferred options for repairing Queensway bridges from Holland Avenue east. In our ward, they'll outline plans for the Holland, Parkdale, Fairmont, Bayswater and O-Train bridges, as well as for several in Somerset ward.

Since Saturday, I've been working with city staff to deal with a few complaints about odour from sewer lining work getting into residents' homes. This morning, the City distributed the following note to the affected areas, with contact info if you have concerns. Of course, you can always contact me as well at jeff.leiper@ottawa.ca. The work has been stopped, and I am looking forward to finding out and reporting back to you why this has happened.

Notice to owner/resident

Sewer Repair and Rehabilitation Work

Contract No. ISD13-3007

Tomorrow at Planning Committee, we’ll consider approval of the Richcraft proposal for the Dow Honda site on Carling Avenue.

As part of the process, City staff have prepared a report that recommends approval of the building. In that report, staff have referred to a recommendation made by the developer to consider extending Sherwood Avenue through the Queen Juliana Park to Prince of Wales Drive.