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The Ottawa Public Library has assembled a team of advisors to decide where a new central library should be located, along with the proposed criteria for nailing down the best site.
Library trustees will be asked to approve the strategy outlined in a report published Thursday.
There are three mandatory criteria each site must meet to stay in competition for the best location: It must be accessible to people with disabilities, have sufficient area for the OPL’s requirements and score at least 70 out of 100 points in the screening assessment.
A Nanos Research poll on a new library site found accessibility for people with disabilities and proximity to transit were the most important criteria. On the other hand, people don’t care as much about the view from the library or parking.
In this phase, out of seven criteria, accessibility is weighted the highest at a maximum of 40 points, followed by proximity to transit at 25 points.
It’s here that the OPL identifies its preference on where exactly the library should be located. According to the criteria, the OPL would prefer the facility in the area bounded by the Ottawa River, Rideau Canal, Lisgar Street and the escarpment, which is in the area of Bronson Avenue.
Once past the screening assessment, sites would be judged using detailed assessment criteria, such as proximity to parking, prospects for sustainable design, zoning status, potential for future development and lack of legal, environmental and servicing roadblocks.
The weightings vary slightly between a standalone municipal facility and a potential super library in partnership with Library and Archives Canada. The OPL is still trying to decide if it should work with the federal archives on a joint project.
The OPL is retaining Deloitte to be an advisor on the site-selection process. In fact, chairing the site evaluation committee will be Deloitte VP Bing Bing Wang, an infrastructure and project finance expert with the firm.
Other members of the committee are:
To judge sites for a potential joint project with Library and Archives, the committee will add from the federal archives Serge Corbeil, director-general of real property, and Mario Gasperetti, manager of investment planning and portfolio management.
The OPL wants the committee to walk all of the sites submitted for evaluation and come to a consensus on the recommended site, or sites, for a standalone municipal library and joint project with Library and Archives.
The OPL has hired a fairness commissioner for the site-selection process.
Results of the ranking process will be shared with the library board in August, but it will be in closed session not open to the public, according to the report.
“To ensure the transparency of the process, the board will hold a public meeting which will include an in-camera agenda item on site evaluation,” library management writes in the report.
A shortlist will have a maximum of three sites for each of the standalone option and joint archives option. Those sites will be subject to further review before a recommendation goes to the library board in December for approval. The recommended location will also need a sign off by city council.
The library continues to include the city-owned land at 557 Wellington St. — roughly where the LRT construction site is, west of Bronson Avenue — as a possible site. The library could either go there or be sold to fund a new facility somewhere else.
The library board is scheduled to meet Tuesday to approve the site-selection criteria.
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Library trustees will be asked to approve the strategy outlined in a report published Thursday.
There are three mandatory criteria each site must meet to stay in competition for the best location: It must be accessible to people with disabilities, have sufficient area for the OPL’s requirements and score at least 70 out of 100 points in the screening assessment.
A Nanos Research poll on a new library site found accessibility for people with disabilities and proximity to transit were the most important criteria. On the other hand, people don’t care as much about the view from the library or parking.
In this phase, out of seven criteria, accessibility is weighted the highest at a maximum of 40 points, followed by proximity to transit at 25 points.
It’s here that the OPL identifies its preference on where exactly the library should be located. According to the criteria, the OPL would prefer the facility in the area bounded by the Ottawa River, Rideau Canal, Lisgar Street and the escarpment, which is in the area of Bronson Avenue.
Once past the screening assessment, sites would be judged using detailed assessment criteria, such as proximity to parking, prospects for sustainable design, zoning status, potential for future development and lack of legal, environmental and servicing roadblocks.
The weightings vary slightly between a standalone municipal facility and a potential super library in partnership with Library and Archives Canada. The OPL is still trying to decide if it should work with the federal archives on a joint project.
The OPL is retaining Deloitte to be an advisor on the site-selection process. In fact, chairing the site evaluation committee will be Deloitte VP Bing Bing Wang, an infrastructure and project finance expert with the firm.
Other members of the committee are:
- Toronto landscape architect David Leinster, who’s a member of the City of Ottawa’s urban design review panel;
- City of Toronto urban design manager James Parakh;
- David Gordon, director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’s University;
- John Smit, the City of Ottawa’s manager of policy development and urban design;
- Robin Souchen, the City of Ottawa’s manager of strategic reality initiatives;
- Elaine Condos, the OPL’s manager on the central library project, and;
- Richard Stark, the OPL’s manager of facilities development
To judge sites for a potential joint project with Library and Archives, the committee will add from the federal archives Serge Corbeil, director-general of real property, and Mario Gasperetti, manager of investment planning and portfolio management.
The OPL wants the committee to walk all of the sites submitted for evaluation and come to a consensus on the recommended site, or sites, for a standalone municipal library and joint project with Library and Archives.
The OPL has hired a fairness commissioner for the site-selection process.
Results of the ranking process will be shared with the library board in August, but it will be in closed session not open to the public, according to the report.
“To ensure the transparency of the process, the board will hold a public meeting which will include an in-camera agenda item on site evaluation,” library management writes in the report.
A shortlist will have a maximum of three sites for each of the standalone option and joint archives option. Those sites will be subject to further review before a recommendation goes to the library board in December for approval. The recommended location will also need a sign off by city council.
The library continues to include the city-owned land at 557 Wellington St. — roughly where the LRT construction site is, west of Bronson Avenue — as a possible site. The library could either go there or be sold to fund a new facility somewhere else.
The library board is scheduled to meet Tuesday to approve the site-selection criteria.
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