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Higher fees, other changes coming soon to overnight winter parking
The cost of on-street parking in Ottawa during the winter is poised to increase steeply.
While the price of an annual parking permit will remain $648, the current monthly fee of $59 will change depending on the season: during the summer months, the fee will fall to $30, but during the winter months, it will spike to $140 for each of the months between December and March. Permit holders are exempt from the overnight parking ban during the winter storms.
Council approved the fee hike, as well as other changes to winter overnight parking regulations that clear the way for residents to park for free in some city-owned parking garages on nights when an overnight parking ban is in effect. The garages include Gloucester, ByWard, Dalhousie, City Hall and Glebe.
Backflow prevention program
Council approved a report recommending that about 13,000 large buildings in Ottawa, including hospitals, schools, businesses and apartment complexes, be required to install “backflow prevention devices” to protect the quality of drinking water.
The devices will cost between $500 and $20,000 per building, with building owners paying the cost. Backflow devices prevent the unintended reversal in the flow of water back into the city’s water supply, caused when the pressure in the municipal water system falls or when the pressure in a building is higher than the pressure in the municipal system, allowing contaminants to “backflow” into the municipal system.
City staff have recommended that the program, which does not include houses, townhouses and small multi-unit apartment buildings, be implemented over five years. The change to the city’s water bylaws will bring Ottawa into line with 30 other municipalities across the province, including Toronto, Hamilton and London.
Free parking for vets on Nov. 11
Veterans will get free street parking downtown on Remembrance Day.
Bylaw officers and parking staff will recognize veterans plates issued by all provinces and territories. Free parking for veterans will apply at pay and display parking spots in the area bounded by the Ottawa River to the north, Somerset Street to the south, the Rideau canal to the east and Bank Street in the west.
Dollars and cents
Council approved a report outlining directions and a timeline for the city’s 2016 budget.
After the draft budget is tabled on Nov. 12, each standing committee will get a chance to debate it (and also hear from public delegations). Council will vote on the budget at its Dec. 9 meeting.
The city is facing a projected revenue shortfall — or deficit — of $36.3 million in 2016, followed by further deficits of $23.4 million in 2017 and $24.2 million in 2018. The shortfall stems from a number of areas, including paying out more for workplace insurance and arbitrated contract settlements, maintaining city services, and delivering the so-called strategic initiatives council has already approved.
Reimagining CFB Rockcliffe
Council gave the green light to a blueprint for the former CFB Rockcliffe that could see the land eventually be home to 10,000 people.
The former Rockcliffe airbase is the last development site of its size in the inner core and is bounded by the Aviation Parkway to the west, the Sir George-Étienne Cartier Parkway to the north, the National Research Council campus to the east and Montreal Road to the south.
The plan calls for a mixed-use community that is walkable, cycling-supportive, transit-oriented and built at human scale. It will be more dense than the suburbs, but less dense than downtown, essentially a village only a few minutes from the core of the city.
Canada Lands Company, a Crown corporation, will sell serviced blocks of land to developers, who will build homes, retail and office buildings according to Canada Lands’ requirements. If all goes according to plan, the first residents will move in in 2017.
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The cost of on-street parking in Ottawa during the winter is poised to increase steeply.
While the price of an annual parking permit will remain $648, the current monthly fee of $59 will change depending on the season: during the summer months, the fee will fall to $30, but during the winter months, it will spike to $140 for each of the months between December and March. Permit holders are exempt from the overnight parking ban during the winter storms.
Council approved the fee hike, as well as other changes to winter overnight parking regulations that clear the way for residents to park for free in some city-owned parking garages on nights when an overnight parking ban is in effect. The garages include Gloucester, ByWard, Dalhousie, City Hall and Glebe.
Backflow prevention program
Council approved a report recommending that about 13,000 large buildings in Ottawa, including hospitals, schools, businesses and apartment complexes, be required to install “backflow prevention devices” to protect the quality of drinking water.
The devices will cost between $500 and $20,000 per building, with building owners paying the cost. Backflow devices prevent the unintended reversal in the flow of water back into the city’s water supply, caused when the pressure in the municipal water system falls or when the pressure in a building is higher than the pressure in the municipal system, allowing contaminants to “backflow” into the municipal system.
City staff have recommended that the program, which does not include houses, townhouses and small multi-unit apartment buildings, be implemented over five years. The change to the city’s water bylaws will bring Ottawa into line with 30 other municipalities across the province, including Toronto, Hamilton and London.
Free parking for vets on Nov. 11
Veterans will get free street parking downtown on Remembrance Day.
Bylaw officers and parking staff will recognize veterans plates issued by all provinces and territories. Free parking for veterans will apply at pay and display parking spots in the area bounded by the Ottawa River to the north, Somerset Street to the south, the Rideau canal to the east and Bank Street in the west.
Dollars and cents
Council approved a report outlining directions and a timeline for the city’s 2016 budget.
After the draft budget is tabled on Nov. 12, each standing committee will get a chance to debate it (and also hear from public delegations). Council will vote on the budget at its Dec. 9 meeting.
The city is facing a projected revenue shortfall — or deficit — of $36.3 million in 2016, followed by further deficits of $23.4 million in 2017 and $24.2 million in 2018. The shortfall stems from a number of areas, including paying out more for workplace insurance and arbitrated contract settlements, maintaining city services, and delivering the so-called strategic initiatives council has already approved.
Reimagining CFB Rockcliffe
Council gave the green light to a blueprint for the former CFB Rockcliffe that could see the land eventually be home to 10,000 people.
The former Rockcliffe airbase is the last development site of its size in the inner core and is bounded by the Aviation Parkway to the west, the Sir George-Étienne Cartier Parkway to the north, the National Research Council campus to the east and Montreal Road to the south.
The plan calls for a mixed-use community that is walkable, cycling-supportive, transit-oriented and built at human scale. It will be more dense than the suburbs, but less dense than downtown, essentially a village only a few minutes from the core of the city.
Canada Lands Company, a Crown corporation, will sell serviced blocks of land to developers, who will build homes, retail and office buildings according to Canada Lands’ requirements. If all goes according to plan, the first residents will move in in 2017.
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