Author: Glen Gower
COMMENT: Welcome to Stittsville, Amazon
(PHOTO: Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle include three “biospheres” filled with plants and endangered species. Photo by brewbooks, used under a Creative Commons license.) You may have heard this week: Amazon…
NOTEBOOK: Transportation Committee approves increase to parking time limit
It’s looking more likely that starting next June, you’ll be able to park on residential streets in Ottawa for more than three hours without worrying about getting a ticket. Earlier…
COMMENT: Safety before shortsighted politics
I just read “Sidewalk scuttled in south Kanata“, an article by Jessica Cunha in the Kanata Kourier-Standard and I am incredulous. The article is about how a sidewalk project for Chimo…
Spook Show creator cranks up the fear factor with new seance show
When I met up with Joseph Carbonetto the other evening for coffee, he looked absolutely nothing like his Facebook profile pic (see above). He wore a button-up shirt, not a…
NOTEBOOK: New bike repair station at Village Square Park
Nice to see this new bike repair station added to Village Square Park this week, along the Trans Canada Trail near Stittsville Main. It’s a good spot for it, with…
NOTEBOOK: A fenced dog run, more cash for road repairs, ice cream at Quitters
FENCED DOG RUNS PLANNED FOR STITTSVILLE SOUTH NEIGHBOURHOOD Valecraft Homes recently tweeted out the design of a park and stormwater pond in their new Rathwell Landing neighbourhood, (located south of…
COMMENT: Traffic calming needs a little creativity
(FILE PHOTO: Speed sign on Hobin Street, near A. Lorne Cassidy school. Photo by Barry Gray.) Eric Darwin writes a must-read local blog called West Side Action. It’s focused on…
NOTEBOOK: City staff want your feedback on parking time limits
In some Stittsville neighbourhoods (especially the newer subdivisions), parking is a massive bone of contention. There were 268 parking bylaw complaints in Stittsville during the first half of the year, the…
NOTEBOOK: Local businesses invited to BIA info meeting on Tuesday
UPDATE: About 50 people attended the meeting on Tuesday night to hear about the BIA proposal, ask questions and share concerns. The steering committee plans to keep educating the local business…
NOTEBOOK: Jack Ketch update, Carp Rd landfill contaminated soil
THE JACK KETCH RESTAURANT PLANS AUGUST OPENING John Curry wrote a great overview of some of the historical buildings on Stittsville Main Street recently in the Stittsville News. The piece starts…
NOTEBOOK: Farmers’ Market update, more thefts at Carp Road Park & Ride
FARMERS’ MARKET UPDATE There’s still no date set for the opening of the “official” Ottawa Farmers’ Market at Village Square Park, but Suzanne Bird is forging ahead anyways with a…
NOTEBOOK: More honours for Tysen, Poole Creek blasting, coyote meeting, more
CONGRATS TYSEN! This week at the Spirit of the Capital Youth Awards, Stittsville’s Tysen Lefebvre received the Max Keeping Award for Personal Strength and Courage. It’s awarded annually to an…
NOTEBOOK: Kanata-Stittsville LRT study will look at three route options
(PHOTO: Artist’s rendering of the Rideau LRT station downtown. Via City of Ottawa.) It occurred to me on the drive home from Monday night’s LRT open house that we just…
NOTEBOOK: Infill on Jonathan Pack, Haliburton Park plans, noise bylaw changes
INFILL ON JONATHAN PACK On June 7, Ottawa’s Committee of Adjustment will consider a request to subdivide a piece of residential property at 28 Jonathan Pack Street. Currently it’s a…
NOTEBOOK: Three reasons why OMB reforms are good for our community
I'm thrilled to announce #Ontario is transforming land-use planning appeals system, replacing #OMB! https://t.co/GpSKj6Yk0w #ONpoli pic.twitter.com/Tr8PJSOhIj — Yasir Naqvi 🇨🇦 (@Yasir_Naqvi) May 16, 2017 Great to see that the Ontario…