Outdoor Benches for Bay Ward – Seeking your Ideas!

In preparing Ottawa’s new Older Adult Plan, the City is looking for your assistance in the selection of bench locations. Approximately 10 to 12 new benches will be installed across the City in 2021 to support older adults requiring additional mobility assistance, and to encourage healthy and active living. Where would you like to see…

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Help shape the City’s Climate Resiliency Strategy

The City is developing a Climate Resiliency Strategy to assess how Ottawa is vulnerable to climate change and identify strategies to adapt to future conditions and mitigate the greatest climate risks.  Ottawa will become much warmer over the coming decades, with more intense rainfall and more extreme events. This will impact our health and safety,…

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New Official Plan – City Growth Management Strategy

The city is looking for your input at Ottawa.ca/NewOP by February 17th, 2020. My message this week covers the City’s Growth Management Strategy and the recent committee decision to include two motions taht would be a major shift of land use for the urban-land expansion. Neither were recommended by City staff who had developed the various options and rated them on suitability for…

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New Official Plan – Regeneration (Infill)

The city is looking for your input at Ottawa.ca/NewOP by February 17th, 2020. The City has developed 21 different one-page fact sheets to give people a general sense of the topics the OP will address. During the next couple of months, I will be highlighting these topics in the weekly Bay Ward Bulletin. Click here to view the…

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New Official Plan – Mobility

The city is looking for your input at Ottawa.ca/NewOP by February 17th, 2020. The City has developed 21 different one-page fact sheets to give people a general sense of the topics the OP will address. During the next couple of months, I will be highlighting these topics in the weekly Bay Ward Bulletin. Click here to view the topics covered in…

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New Official Plan – Healthy & Inclusive Communities

The city is looking for your input at Ottawa.ca/NewOP by February 17th, 2020. The City has developed 21 different one-page fact sheets to give people a general sense of the topics the OP will address. During the next couple of months, I will be highlighting these topics in the weekly Bay Ward Bulletin. Click here to view all…

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Solid Waste Master Plan

Since its launch in February, the Solid Waste Master Plan page on Engage Ottawa has been a steadily growing source of information. If you haven’t stopped by recently, it’s worth taking another look. You’ll find anything you may want to know about project timelines, reports and technical data, as well as FAQs and backgrounders on…

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New Official Plan and Pandemic Resiliency

The city is looking for your input at Ottawa.ca/NewOP by February 17th, 2020. The City has developed 21 different one-page fact sheets to give people a general sense of the topics the OP will address. During the next couple of months, I will be highlighting these topics in the my weekly bulletin. Click here to view all…

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