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Rockcliffe
park newsletter
July
2007
NEWS FROM CITY HALL
Princess Avenue and the Roundabout on the Parkway
Construction on the Princess/Parkway roundabout will commence
shortly (early August). Most of the work will be done by this
fall, with final landscaping in the spring. The contractor
working on site will be Lafarge Paving and Construction
(Eastern) Limited, and any questions can be referred to Jo-anne
Moore, P.Eng., Project Manager, City of Ottawa at Tel.
613-580-2424 ext. 43975.
For Princess Avenue, City staff is in the process of preparing
revised drawings, layout, and tender specifications following
the input received at our last public meeting. The City is
planning a further meeting with the community sometime this fall
(date to be determined).
The Cloverdale ‘Triangle’
The ‘triangle’ in question is of course the piece of land at
the confluence of Buena Vista and Cloverdale (city address, 411
Cloverdale). Little appears to exist in City files in the way of
background information on the subject property, - apart from the
fact that it was acquired by the former Village of Rockcliffe
Park in 1949. Internally, City staff is seeking to know whether
it serves any municipal purpose and if there is therefore a need
to retain this property for ‘program requirements’. If anyone
has knowledge about this property, I would ask that it be
communicated to my office.
Ottawa River Crossings – a ‘primer’
Everyone will have heard of the “Environmental Assessment
Study of Future Interprovincial Crossings in the National
Capital Region” being conducted by the NCC (Federal Government)
and the two provinces, Ontario and Québec. This study is not the
first to examine what nature of crossing(s) is (are) needed and
where it (they) ought to be located. One can only hope and pray
that it will be the last and that it will be well done.
I have been involved with this issue for more years than I care
to remember. The result is that I have useful information to
share as well as a well developed position on the matter.
I would like to suggest that anyone interested begin by
consulting the following link:
http://www.rideau-rockcliffe.com/annual%20report/Annual%20Report%20E%201999.pdf It
will provide a copy of my 1999 Annual Report, on pages 1, 2 & 3
of which is, what I believe, to be a very good summary of the
latest on Interprovincial Crossings. Although the summary was
produced in 1999 nothing of substance has happened since. The
relevant studies all pre-date that Annual Report. I would be
pleased to provide copies of the article, for those not
connected to the web. For any who are interested, I could also
provide copies of the studies cited in the summary. I will be
updating readers in my upcoming Annual Report to be published
this fall.
Readers might also wish to consult the following Web Site:
http://www.ncrcrossings.ca/en/home.html
Jacques Legendre
Councillor, Rideau-Rockcliffe
You can communicate with me at (please include a telephone
number):
City of Ottawa
110 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa ON K1P 1J1
Tel: 580-2483, Fax: 580-2523
E-mail:
jacques.legendre@ottawa.ca
Web Site:
www.rideau-rockcliffe.com
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