Let the Ministry of Environment hear your concerns

Last Friday, my office sent out postcards to residents in Stittsville with information on Waste Management’s proposed expansion of the Carp Road Landfill to the West Carleton Environmental Centre.

The postcards list several key individuals you can send your comments regarding expansion plans. The postcard is addressed to Jeffrey Dea, who is the Ministry of Environment’s project manager and you can send comments via e-mail at Jeffrey.Dea@ontario.ca

The deadline for comments is July 19. For more information on the project, you can view several websites, including Moving Mountains on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mmnews. You can also visit websites such as the Stittsville Village Association (www.stittsvilleva.com), the No Dump group (www.nodump.ca), Ottawa Landfill Watch (www.ottawalandfillwatch.org), Richardson Corridor Community Association or my website at www.shadqadri.com.

There’s still time to let your voices be heard and stop the expansion.

Power outages in Stittsville

Last week, Hydro Ottawa power outages occurred across Ottawa including in our community.

The two recent outages that occurred last week (July 5th and July 7th) were not related to the extreme warm temperatures, but rather a vine that interfered with electrical equipment and a defective underground cable. The second outage on July 7th took longer to fix because forced outages were necessary to ensure the system was stable. This resulted in unfortunate outages for many customers over the course of the evening.

As part of the Hazeldean Road construction project, Hydro Ottawa has been requested to relocate its pole line to align with the new road. This work has resulted in several planned outages but unplanned outages have also occurred. Hydro Ottawa has advised they will continue to work closely with the City to reduce unplanned outages cause by the construction.

Hydro Ottawa is continuing to invest significant resources in new infrastructure in Stittsville to help keep pace with growth and ensure that our high standards for service reliability are maintained. Currently, much of the community is fed from a single 44-kilovolt-distribution line. As such, the area has been identified by Hydro Ottawa as a priority area for upgrades.

In 2008, Hydro Ottawa proposed to install an alternate supply route along Abbott Street. However, this project was deferred at the City’s request pending a review of the underground wiring options. I am continuing to work with the City, Hydro Ottawa and the development community on the Underground Wiring Steering Community to restrict the introduction of new overhead wiring in established communities.

The new transfer station planned for 2013 in south Kanata and Stittsville will increase reliability of supply for our community by providing added capacity and alternative supply options.

If you have experienced any damage to home appliances, please contact Hydro Ottawa to give them the opportunity to have staff respond to you directly. Please contact Hydro Ottawa Customer Service at 613-738-6400 or claims@hydroottawa.com. For general e-mail or concerns, please e-mail customerservice@hydroottawa.ca.

Hydro Ottawa provided a letter explaining the outages in further detail, which can be found on my website at www.shadqadri.com.

For updates and to report outages in the future please call Hydro Ottawa Power Outage Reporting and Information at 613-738-0188.

I am continuing to work with Hydro Ottawa on these matters and I understand that it can be a great inconvenience to many residents. I appreciate your patience and understanding during this process.

Proposed automotive facility on Carp Road

A site plan control proposal has been submitted for 1189 Carp Road located south of Hazeldean Road, west of the Stittsville Main Street adjacent to the Sunoco Gas Bar. This application proposes to allow the construction of a 7-bay Oil Changers. The building will include a 2-bay quick oil change facility, 1-bay for emissions testing and a 4-bay self-serve car wash facility.

The existing single-detached home will be demolished and replaced with a building containing 7 bays for car wash, oil change and emissions testing facilities. This building will front onto Carp road and have parking spaces located at the rear. The access to Carp Road will be located on the southeast corner of the site.

For questions and to submit your comments by July 23, please contact the City Planner, Marc Magierowicz at 613-580-2424 x27820 or Marc.Magierowicz@ottawa.ca. The plans are available on my website at www.shadqadri.com.

240 West Ridge Drive

In the spring of 2010, the applicant submitted a revised plan of subdivision for this site located on the west side of West Ridge Drive, south of the Trans Canada Trail and north of Deer Run Park. The application will be processed concurrently with a site plan application for 60 freehold townhomes ranging from 1400 sq ft to 1800 sq ft and 5 single-detached homes. It is proposed that the public street would have two intersections which would align with the southern intersections of Eliza Crescent and Greenhaven Crescent.

This site has had some history over the past number of years. Originally, during the construction of West Ridge/Deer Run area, the land was reserved for an elementary school. However the school board indicated they no longer required the land. In 2007 City Council approved the requested zoning by-law amendment to rezone the land from Institutional Zone (I) to Special Residential Type 4 (R4-15 and R4-17). This zoning permits town homes, semi-detached, and single detached dwellings with a restriction to not permit town homes fronting on West Ridge Drive. At this time the applicant was proposing town homes and single dwellings, but given the community's concern with that proposal there were additional zoning restrictions which did not permit town homes fronting on West Ridge Drive and I also put a motion forward altering the original concept plan submitted by the proponent restricting the development of some town homes siding onto West Ridge Drive. In 2008 a proposed plan of subdivision was for 31 single detached dwellings. Since this time the ownership of the land has changed and the new owners have submitted the revised plan of subdivision for 60 freehold townhomes and 5 single-detached homes.

For more information and to submit your comments, please contact my office and the City Planner: Marc Magierowicz at 613-580-2424 x27820 or Marc.Magierowicz@ottawa.ca.   More...