QADRI: Time for Ontario Municipal Board to adapt
(via Councillor Shad Qadri’s weekly newsletter) As you may know, the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) is currently under review for changes. This week, council reviewed the report and a motion…
Category: Development
COMMENT: Opportunity, momentum and passion for a revitalized Stittsville Main
About 45 people packed into Quitters on Monday night to take part in a panel discussion called Re-Inventing Stittsville Main. I organized the event along with the Stittsville Village Association,…
City seeks input on “Silas Bradley Park” commemorative naming
The City of Ottawa Commemorative Naming Committee is conducting online public consultations on a naming proposal. Comments on these proposals must be received no later than December 22.
LIVE VIDEO: Re-inventing Stittsville Main
If all goes as planned, you can watch a live video stream of tonight’s Re-Inventing Stittsville Main event on YouTube, thanks to ISI Webcasting. Tune in starting at 7:30pm. Here’s…
Tree cutting starts Monday for Minto’s Potter’s Key
(via Councillor Shad Qadri) I would like to take a moment to provide a quick update on the tree cutting in Potter’s Key. Today, the contractors have received their final…
NOTEBOOK: Parking goes underground on Hazeldean
Can you imagine a Hazeldean Road development with more parkland than parking?
NOV 21: Re-Inventing Stittsville Main
“An event to bring together entrepreneurs, landowners, investors, and interested stakeholders from the community, to begin a conversation about the future of Stittsville Main.” Presented by Stittsville Village Association…
UPDATE: Flewellyn-Jones house project seeks re-zoning
(ABOVE: Flewellyn-Jones House, November 2013.) Last January, City Council approved heritage designation for the Flewellyn-Jones House on Fernbank Road, just east of the Shea Road roundabout. I noticed that a…
Car dealership proposed for Hazeldean Road at Sweetnam
The City of Ottawa has received a site plan control application to build an automotive dealership at 5835 Hazeldean Road. The property is located on the north side of Hazeldean, across from…
Stittsville South construction resumes, and that means more blasting
After a few months of delay because of missing permits, construction is proceeding south of the Westwind community in what’s known as Stittsville South. That construction involves a lot of…
Major mixed use development proposed for Huntmar near Palladium
A significant new development proposal has been submitted to the City for a parcel of land on the north part of Huntmar Drive near Palladium. The proposal includes detached homes, townhouses, a…
LINKED: New DND move to west end impacts “CFB Fairwinds”
Over the next few years, thousands of employees at the Department of National Defence will move into the old Nortel buildings on Moodie Drive. The Ottawa Citizen ran a feature this weekend called…
NOTEBOOK: Revised site plan approved for Stittsville Walk
(FILE PHOTO: Unfinished “Stittsville Walk” condos, March 6, 2016.) “I suppose the best one can say is that it is no worse than the original proposal.” That’s the reaction I received…
HODGINS HOUSE: They paved paradise, put up a Mattress Mart
“IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS IT WAS GONE,” wrote reporter Debbie Lawes in the Kanata Standard on Wednesday, June 8, 1988, a week after a wrecking crew tore down Hodgins House…
Grocery store, restaurant proposed for corner of Fernbank and Shea
The City of Ottawa has received a request to amend the zoning by-law to allow a commercial development at the south west corner of Fernbank and Shea. The land…