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EMC news - The Stittsville Main Street Community Design Plan process which is now underway is the result of city of Ottawa Stittsville ward councillor Shad Qadri working with city of Ottawa planning staff to ensure that development along Stittsville Main Street in the future retains the community feel of Stittsville. The Community Design Plan that will arise from this process will provide a 20 year vision and guidance for development along Stittsville Main Street. This initial visioning workshop is a key component of the public input in the process. It was back in Nov. 2010 that councillor Qadri brought a motion to Ottawa city council asking for a work plan to develop a Community Design Plan for Stittsville Main Street.
This request was as a result of a city approval for a ďŹ ve storey mixed residential/commercial building and related townhomes at a site on Stittsville Main Street. Councillor Qadri and some residents had argued that the scale of this development was inappropriate for the community. Stittsville Main Street is designated as a Traditional Mainstreet in the city’s OfďŹ cial Plan, making it a site for intensiďŹ cation of development, creating a compact, mixed use and walkable environment supporting transit, cycling and walking. However, Stittsville Main Street is also covered by Policy 13 which relates to the Master Plan and Urban Design Guidelines of the former Township of Goulbourn. The relationship of this Policy 13, which requires any new construction on Stittsville Main Street to be evaluated in terms R0011742802
ment pattern that the city’s OfďŹ cial Plan policies tries to encourage. This Community Design Plan for Stittsville Main Street is being undertaken by the city’s planning and growth management staff in collaboration with a public advisory committee comprised of community organizations, landowners, businesses and other interested parties. Following the recent Nov. 1 public workshop and the ensuing vision creation, a public open house presenting this vision and the existing conditions that prevail along Stittsville Main Street will be held in the ďŹ rst quarter of 2013. A draft Community Design Plan document will be produced in the second quarter of 2013. In the third quarter of 2013, a community open house will be held to present the ďŹ nal Community Design Plan and to receive comments from the public. It is envisioned that the Community Design Plan will go to Ottawa city council for approval in the ďŹ rst quarter of 2014. 1115 R0011745819
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For the last two years, I have held a Christmas card contest within Kars Public School (2010) and Munster Elementary School (2011). This year, I’d like to include everyone and encourage kids of all ages to send me drawings that I can choose from for my 2012 Christmas card. Feel free to be creative in your drawings and include elements of your community at Christmas time. This is all just for fun and I hope many of our local kids get involved and send me their drawings. Drawings can be dropped off at the North Gower Client Service Centre on Thursday, November 15th or 22nd between 8:30am and 4:30pm. They can also be dropped off at the Goulbourn Town Hall Monday-Friday between 9:00am and 4:00pm before November 23rd. If you’d like to send it by mail, please send it to Scott Moffatt, 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, ON, K1P 1J1. You can also email or fax the drawings to Scott.Moffatt@ottawa.ca or 613-580-2531.
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of the existing character of buildings along Stittsville Main Street, to the direction of the Traditional Mainstreet designation for Stittsville Main Street in the ofďŹ cial Plan has created some ambiguity with respect to how the former Goulbourn planning documents are to be interpreted today. The Community Design Plan for Stittsville Main Street will try to solve this apparent ambiguity and conict. TrafďŹ c on Stittsville Main Street is also a consideration as the street is meant to continue to function as a primary north/south route in the community. This means that Stittsville Main Street development must be of a type that will encourage a compact mixed use and walkable environment rather than the autooriented, low-rise pattern of development which has prevailed to this point. Stittsville Main Street must evolve as an accessible service hub for the surrounding community rather than its current limited function as a conduit for trafďŹ c movement. This is the kind of develop-
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