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The National Capital Commission is inviting some “big ideas” from the public as it envisions a new master plan for the next 50 years in Gatineau Park.
The NCC launched a four-stage process, with each stage including extensive public consultations for the 361-square-kilometre park, where locals account for 90 per cent of the park’s 2.6 million visits per year.
“Ultimately the goal of this whole process is to not only come up with a great plan that guides the future of the park, but it will align us all, from visitors to the park and recreational users of the park, with the residents, municipalities, stakeholders, and with all the natural world in a sustainable vision we can all agree on,” said NCC chief executive Mark Kristmanson to a crowd of about 100 people, nearly half from the Gatineau side of the river, at the first of a series of public consultations Thursday in downtown Ottawa.
“There are very substantive issues to work out to get that kind of alignment.”
NCC planners Christie Spence (left) and Lucie Bureau review suggestions at the first public consultation on the future of Gatineau Park Thursday.
The NCC last approved a master plan in 2005, said Christie Spence, NCC director of Quebec urban lands.
“We aim to review it every ten years, so we’re due,” said Spence, who said the last master plan clearly identified the public’s desire for a focus on conservation.
“We’re at a really important time in the park where, more often than not we’re full – our parking lots are full, the parkways are congested. So do we go down that path? Can we conserve some of the natural resources we have? What is the long-term vision?
“It’s an unusual park because it’s not like a national park where it’s very clear in legislation what we’re here for and what its long-term purpose is,” said Spence. “We’ve said Gatineau Park is a conservation park, that’s what’s in the last master plan, but we’re saying now, ‘When your grandkids come here, what do you want them to see?’
“This is a first step, and we want to hear from people and what’s on their minds, so we get a scope of the review.”
The NCC said public consultation will play a major role in each of the four phases of the plan, according to NCC director of long-range planning Lucie Bureau.
Thursday’s brainstorming session will be followed by a similar event at Gatineau’s Crowne Plaza Hotel on Rue Montcalm on Nov. 1 at 6 p.m.
Planners will then begin to craft a vision for the park from those ideas during the fall and winter.
“We’ll see the public again to get feedback on the vision we’ve worked on,” said Bureau. “The third step is to work on the zoning and a concept map, and the last step is to present a final draft to the public and they have their last say.”
The process is expected to be complete by winter 2019.
Along the way, NCC planners expect to hear a range of opinions, often delivered passionately, and they expect to field some diverging views.
“Planning is all about finding consensus,” said Bureau. “That’s why we’re meeting the public throughout the process.”
The public is invited to visit the NCC website (ncc.ccn.gc.ca), which will host an online survey as part of the public consultation. The online site will accept submissions until Nov. 14 at midnight.
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The NCC launched a four-stage process, with each stage including extensive public consultations for the 361-square-kilometre park, where locals account for 90 per cent of the park’s 2.6 million visits per year.
“Ultimately the goal of this whole process is to not only come up with a great plan that guides the future of the park, but it will align us all, from visitors to the park and recreational users of the park, with the residents, municipalities, stakeholders, and with all the natural world in a sustainable vision we can all agree on,” said NCC chief executive Mark Kristmanson to a crowd of about 100 people, nearly half from the Gatineau side of the river, at the first of a series of public consultations Thursday in downtown Ottawa.
“There are very substantive issues to work out to get that kind of alignment.”
NCC planners Christie Spence (left) and Lucie Bureau review suggestions at the first public consultation on the future of Gatineau Park Thursday.
The NCC last approved a master plan in 2005, said Christie Spence, NCC director of Quebec urban lands.
“We aim to review it every ten years, so we’re due,” said Spence, who said the last master plan clearly identified the public’s desire for a focus on conservation.
“We’re at a really important time in the park where, more often than not we’re full – our parking lots are full, the parkways are congested. So do we go down that path? Can we conserve some of the natural resources we have? What is the long-term vision?
“It’s an unusual park because it’s not like a national park where it’s very clear in legislation what we’re here for and what its long-term purpose is,” said Spence. “We’ve said Gatineau Park is a conservation park, that’s what’s in the last master plan, but we’re saying now, ‘When your grandkids come here, what do you want them to see?’
“This is a first step, and we want to hear from people and what’s on their minds, so we get a scope of the review.”
The NCC said public consultation will play a major role in each of the four phases of the plan, according to NCC director of long-range planning Lucie Bureau.
Thursday’s brainstorming session will be followed by a similar event at Gatineau’s Crowne Plaza Hotel on Rue Montcalm on Nov. 1 at 6 p.m.
Planners will then begin to craft a vision for the park from those ideas during the fall and winter.
“We’ll see the public again to get feedback on the vision we’ve worked on,” said Bureau. “The third step is to work on the zoning and a concept map, and the last step is to present a final draft to the public and they have their last say.”
The process is expected to be complete by winter 2019.
Along the way, NCC planners expect to hear a range of opinions, often delivered passionately, and they expect to field some diverging views.
“Planning is all about finding consensus,” said Bureau. “That’s why we’re meeting the public throughout the process.”
The public is invited to visit the NCC website (ncc.ccn.gc.ca), which will host an online survey as part of the public consultation. The online site will accept submissions until Nov. 14 at midnight.
ahelmer@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/helmera
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