June 15, 7 pm to 7 am, Walter Baker Park

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Please join us this Monday Apr 30

at 6:30 p.m.

Mlacak Centre Hall C

We believe that our community works best if we

Keep to the Plan!

The developer and the City will be presenting a new version of his proposal to build a 120 unit high rise at

#2 The Parkway

Show your concern and give the City your feedback.

Thank you, for your important involvement and generous donations!

Please join us Monday April 30^th, 2012 from 6:30 to 9:30 at the Mlacak Centre in Hall ‘C’, 2500 Campeau Drive, when the Developer assisted by City Planning will show you his revised proposal for #2 The Parkway.

They will tell you how they justify changing the existing zoning of #2 The Parkway from Minor Institutional to Residential High Density, converting public-use lands into two residential towers on top of 17 townhouses.

To save time you could choose to read only the developer’s Planning Rationale at:

http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%20Referencing_Zoning%20Bylaw%20Amendment%20Application_Image%20Reference_Revision%20-%20Planning%20Rationale.PDF

Or check the Concept Plan at:

http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%20Referencing_Zoning%20Bylaw%20Amendment%20Application_Image%20Reference_Revision%20-%20Concept%20Plan%20and%20Elevations.PDF

This will be the first time our community will see the new proposal. This latest proposal replaces their earlier proposal for a 16-storey high rise building.  It offers about the same number of units, now in 9 storeys, or a total of 10 storeys (a top level for mechanical and amenities and much bigger footprint). In summary, they are proposing to install a tower between five times and almost ten times the height of nearby single homes in Beaverbrook.  Resident parking is underground; visitor parking at grade.

Many in Beaverbrook are concerned. Together we wrote hundreds of letters and reports on the first proposal.  Please join us at this meeting.  Ask the developer and the City to answer your questions and concerns.  This is your main chance, to say, and explain whether and why this second proposal is also out of scale with the neighbourhood character.  If you want the City to Keep to The Plan, you can urge that these types of development be permitted only in the Kanata Town Centre.

KBCA is committed to saving Kanata from bad planning.  We have been advised this proposal sets out precedents leading to many more high-rises at choice Kanata Beaverbrook sites.  Your continuing support, involvement and donations are vital.

Your donations ensure KBCA can pay for qualified lawyers and experts to defend our award-winning model city planned by Bill Teron.  Please donate using the PayPal or by cheque payable to KBCA.   Please continue to give generously.

Let’s Keep to the Plan!  See you, on April 30 at 6:30 p.m.!

Gary Sealey, President

Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association

The KBCA will be organizing the annual clean up day on Saturday May 5 (rain date May 12) from 9:00am to 1:00pm.

For the last 10 years, local residents have filled garbage bags, removed tires, plastic chairs, broken planks of wood from the parks streams and woods that make this a beautiful place we all call home.

We want you to have fun and we’re hoping for another great turn-out again this year.

A BBQ will be offered, starting at 11:30 to 1 PM.  There will be fun activities for teens and kids as well as prizes, courtesy of one of our local artists, “Barcha Pottery”.

We’ll give you the bags and gloves to wear. We’ll help you form teams and provide maps of where to pick up the litter and where to drop off the full garbage bags.  Long pants, sturdy shoes or boots and hopefully you might need some sun screen too.

Watch for the big sign at the corner of Teron and Campeau.

High school students can earn 4 hours of community volunteer hours.

This event is part of the City of Ottawa’s “Spring Clean the Capital” campaign.

For more information on how to participate or sponsor the event, please contact, Pilar Balbuena at 613-599-6274

Although there is no news on the legal appeal, there continues to be activity on the Lansdowne project.

• City staff has quietly approved the Phase 2 Site Plan for Lansdowne Park. Last fall, Ottawa City Council delegated almost all authority for approving decisions on Lansdowne to staff, meaning that there is little opportunity for public review or comment even if there are major changes to the project.
• Architecture Canada, the national association representing over 4000 architects, has sent a letter to Mayor Jim Watson critiquing the phase 2 site plan. The professional group observes that serval significant public-oriented design features in the master plan approved by Council in June 2010 have been dropped in the final site plan. Specifically, it notes that the following amenities have disappeared:

- the central plaza with a pavilion and multilevelled public spaces

- the ‘veil’ from the north side stands of Frank Clair Stadium

- the public art program in the mixed use area

- the interpretive walk

See the letter from Architecture Canada here.

• Mark your calendars for the Lansdowne Soil Remediation Public Meeting on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. The City of Ottawa will host a public meeting on the soil remediation plans and risk management measures for dealing with the contaminated soils at Lansdowne Park. At the last public meeting on the subject, citizens raised concerns about possible risks to human health as well as risks to the environment and the Rideau Canal. There were also many questions about the budget for the clean-up and whether the City was being transparent about the mounting costs for soil remediation.

According to City staff, the draft Certificate of Property Use will be posted by March 15 on the Government of Ontario’s Environmental Registry at www.ebr.gov.on.ca and the Risk Management Plan will be posted on the City of Ottawa’s website at www.ottawa.ca/lansdownepartnership. For more information, you can contact Nancy Horton, Program Manager (Disposals and Environmental Remediation) at the City of Ottawa at 613-580-2424, ext. 21219 or by email at nancy.horton@ottawa.ca.

Lansdowne Soil Remediation Meeting

Wednesday, March 21, 7 to 9 p.m.

(Presentation at 7 p.m followed by questions & answers)

St. Giles Presbyterian Church, 174 First Avenue

Friends of Lansdowne continues to monitor activities related to Lansdowne Park. We hope that our legal appeal will be successful and that this costly, sole-sourced, public-private scheme will be stopped and replaced with a fair and open public revitalization project. But whatever happens, we will work to make sure that this important public space is developed responsibly.

We continue to need financial support for our work and to compensate our lawyers for their incredible hard work on the project. Please donate again if you are able to. www.letsgetitright.ca/get-involved/donate-to-friends-of-lansdowne.

Thanks for your support. Let’s Get it Right!

March 1st, 2012 6:30—9:00 p.m
at Earl Of March High School, 4 The Parkway, Kanata

The Carleton Mississippi Mills Provincial Liberal Riding Association and the Carleton Mississippi Mills Liberal Women’s Association are co-hosting an open public forum to gather your thoughts on the proposed up-coming Provincial Budget.

Everyone is welcome to participate in a non-partisan review of the Drummond Report and pre-budget consultation.

No charge.  Coffee and cookies will be provided.  It is your turn to share your ideas.

You will meet your neighbours, enjoy free refreshments and vote for your choice of many new candidates candidates for the Board of Directors.

Bring $10 in cash or cheque payable to KBCA to update your membership and voting privileges.  Or, please click on the Membership PayPal button below. It’s safe, fast and easy.  Please try it now.

This has been an exciting year and there is more to come!