By Alison Sandor, CFRA News, April 24, 2014
City staff are looking at ways to make the suburbs more livable.
Suburban ward councillors took part in a forum Thursday morning as part of the Building Better and Smarter Suburbs study project taking place this year.
It's about making communities that have the proper infrastructure, transit and school zones and Barrhaven Councillor Jan Harder said it's important to ensure services are in place as the suburbs grow.
By Matthew Pearson, Ottawa Citizen, April 24, 2014
OTTAWA — A Toronto luxury condominium developer has overhauled plans for a signature building at the corner of Wellington Street and Island Park Drive in hopes of securing support from city planners who rejected it the first time around.
But despite all the changes Mizrahi Developments has made, it isn’t budging on the request to build 12 storeys — in an area where the zoning allows for a maximum of nine — and that appears to remain a sticking point.
By Joanne Chianello, Ottawa Citizen, April 24, 2014
OTTAWA — The fifth floor of the National Capital Commission’s offices on Elgin Street — space that was previously occupied by the folks who organized Winterlude and Canada Day events — is now completely empty, except for a 3-D model of the capital region. It dates back to the days when Jacques Greber was running things, although it’s been updated over the years, adding such landmarks as the Canadian Museum of History and the World Exchange Plaza.
Until a few weeks ago, however, the model had been in storage. Now, still a little dusty, it’s the single item of interest among the unoccupied desks and limp electrical wires.
By Alison Sandor, CFRA News, April 23, 2014
Like it or hate it, the weather is always a conversation starter and lately it just seems like the cold or the heat, the snow or the rain will never end.
One year we see flooding and the next, it's so dry farmers can barely grow their crops and at least one climatologist says extreme weather is now the new normal.
By Alison Sandor, CFRA News, April 22, 2014
Every time there is a heavy rainfall in Ottawa sewers overflow, spewing millions of litres of raw sewage into the Ottawa River and a local MP is using Earth Day to renew his call for the federal to put that to an end.
Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar says it's time for the federal government to spend more money to finish the ongoing project to prevent sewer overflow into the river.
"Minister [John] Baird has said as the minister responsible for the Ottawa area that this is a moral issue for him," said Dewar. "I agree with him, but alas, we've seen no announcements in the most recent budget, and when it comes to commitment, we need more than words. We need money on the table."
By Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen, April 23, 2014
OTTAWA — Windmill Development Group chose Earth Day to submit rezoning applications to the cities of Ottawa and Gatineau for the former Domtar lands, a step toward developing what the company is calling the “world’s most sustainable community” on the post-industrial waterfront property.
The billion-dollar project, if approved by various levels of government, would eventually be home to about 3,500 people in apartments, condos and townhouses, as well as numerous parks, a hotel, stores, restaurants and loft-style offices in “innovation hubs.” Windmill anticipates another 3,500 people would work on the site. The project is expected to take about 15 years to complete.