CCC Nov28th Mtg: Agenda

[John Verbaas]

Please find below the draft agenda for our next montly mtg.


Let me know if there are any other items you would like to have added.

7:00 p.m., Nov28th , 2012.
Dalhousie Community Centre
755 Somerset Street West, Ottawa
room 33 (the "kitchen", 3rd floor back on LHS as exit elevator)

Draft Agenda:

1) Administrative
- Agenda review, Meeting Secretary
- Approval of Minutes: Sep, 2012

2) Report on CCC Presentation re. 2013 Transportation Budget
- topics discussed:
- funding for 42m$ Greenbank Rd widening
- Rideau R footbridge: no funding for construction in 4 yr capital
forecast
- Rideau Canal footbridge detailed design funding
- Alternative funding sources for roads

3) Transportation Master Plan Update
- report on mtg with Colin Simpson (City staff person on TMP update)
- first public consultation date: Jan 29th 2013
- discussion of potential CCC submissions/participation

4) E-W LRT Project - Blair to Tunneys
- 3 RFP proposals submitted to City Sep10th
- winning bidder expected to be announced in Dec

5) Commencement of EA's for Transitway Expansions
- Kanata North
- Barrhaven to Riverside S.

6) Update on Interprovincial Crossings Study
- Councillors Fleury & Holmes' inquiries to staff on Truck
routings/volumes after a bridge is built.

7) Denial of widening of Sussex Dr.
- report on council refusal of NCC request to widen Sussex & demolish
homes
in heritage district of Lowertown

8) Interprovincial Transit Liason with STO
- recent Transit commission commitment to improve networking with
STO staff

9) Any other business:

Active Files waiting for next steps:

- Interprovincial Transit Study: Report was due by end-2011
- Footbridges:
- Rideau R. footbridge (Somerset to Donald streets)

[John Verbaas]

Please find below the draft agenda for our next montly mtg. The main item
to be thinking about is what input we want to make to the City to influence
the TMP. Thoughts on this topic are welcome on the email list.

Let me know if there are any other items you would like to have added.

7:00 p.m., Jan 30th , 2013.

Dalhousie Community Centre
755 Somerset Street West, Ottawa

room 34 (3rd floor back, exit left from elevator)

Draft Agenda:

1) Administrative
- Agenda review, Meeting Secretary

- Approval of Minutes: Nov 28, 2012

2) Transportation Master Plan Update
- report on Jan 29th public meeting

- discussion of potential CCC submissions/participation

...either directly or via FCA

3) Downtown Moves
- update on final report

4) E-W LRT Project - Blair to Tunneys

- construction implications and temporary parking lot at 160 Lees

5) Update on E-W Bikeway project, eastern portion
- from Waller to Hemlock via Sandy Hill/Lowertown East/New Edinburgh

6) Update on Interprovincial Crossings Study
- Councillors Fleury & Holmes' inquiries to staff on Truck
routings/volumes after a bridge is built.

7) Any other business:

Active Files waiting for next steps:

- E-W LRT Route Selection Tunneys to Baseline
- Interprovincial Crossings Study (announcement of preferred corridor)

[John Verbaas]

Please find below the draft agenda for our next montly mtg. The main item

to be thinking about continues to be what input we want to make to the City

to influence
the TMP. Thoughts on this topic are welcome on the email list.

Let me know if there are any other items you would like to have added.

7:00 p.m., Wed Mar 27th , 2013.

Dalhousie Community Centre
755 Somerset Street West, Ottawa

room 34 (3rd floor rear, exit left from elevator)

Draft Agenda:

1) Administrative
- Agenda review, Meeting Secretary

- Approval of Minutes: Jan 27, 2013

2) Report on the release of 2011 Origin-Destination survey results
- trip rates per person and per household (counting all types of trips by
all modes) are accelerating their decline, as does the rate of growth of
total trips in the region
- the absolute number of trips in the NCR went up by 3.7% in the 6
years since 2005 (.6%/yr), slower than the rate of growth of the population
which increased by 7.2% and the number of employed persons which went up by
8.2%
- 40% increase in daily cycling trips since 2005 (up to 1.8% of total
daily trips)
- decline in peak hour trips across the Ottawa River

3) Transportation Master Plan Update
- report on CCC's submission by Mar 1 deadline
- City preliminary proposals (including public comments)
tabled at Mar 26th planning committee
- (very little mention of transportation topics)
- April release expected by City of list of future transportation needs
- CCC will focus on mentions of AVTC in this doc
- public input to be completed by Jun when these needs are grouped into
phases

4) Update on Interprovincial Crossings Study
- report on discussion with Jim Watson's office re. potential truck
routings
with a new bridge in place
- new study reports released (Impacts on Boating/Sailing, Community
Impacts)
- announcement of preferred corridor expected this spring
- next steps for CCC? Mtg with Yasr Naqvi?

5) Preston-Carling District Plan
- report/comments from DCA?

6) Status update on Main St re-design
- report/comments from OECA?

7) Walk Ottawa/Ecology Ottawa efforts promoting 'Complete Streets'
- report from Mar 26th event at UofO

8) Intensification and Parking Provision / Cash-in-lieu of parking
- experiences from other CA's
- CCC's recommendations

9) Any other business:

[John Verbaas]

Please find below the draft agenda for our next mtg and pls note the change
from our typical meeting location.

Lots of things happening since we last met;
a) the long awaited, several years delayed interprovincial transit study
results were released
b) the interprovincial bridge study reached another milestone, concluding
that Kettle Is. was the best location for a new bridge
c) the City came back with a tweaked routing for the LRT extension to the
west which they have called the "Richmond Underground" option
d) the first draft of the 2013 version of the once every 5 year update of
the transportation master plan is imminent

The first 3 above are different billion $ plus projects. We live in
interesting times from a transportation network evolution perspective in
Ottawa.

Let me know if there are any other items you would like to have added.

7:00 p.m., Wed May 29th , 2013.
Ottawa East Old Town Hall (OTH)
61 Main St (at Hawthorne)

Draft Agenda:

1) Administrative
- Agenda review, Meeting Secretary

- Approval of Minutes: Mar 27, 2013

2) W-LRT Corridor Selection
- report from May PCG meeting
- no technical studies have been released for public analysis
- Description of the Richmond underground route
- No further discussion of Carling Route options
- correspondance with Councillor Taylor
- description of remaining issues to be resolved


3) Interprovincial Bridge
- Kettle Is. reconfirmed (for 3rd time) as preferred location
- opposed by politicians at all levels
- mediocre truck solution at best
- new cost estimate of 1.1B$
- NCC presents to City transportation committee Jun 5th
- discussion of position to be taken by CCC

4) Interprovincial Transit Study
- many technical studies posted to website
- no meetings scheduled to present results or accept feedback?
- suggests some short term operational tweaks
- and a long term (20 yr+) vision to convert Rapibus to LRT
- in the meantime Ottawa downtown to remain infected with
100+ STO buses per rush hours for next 20 years or more.

5) Transportation Master Plan 2013 update
- April release of future transportation needs
proposals has not yet occurred
- only a brief overview of projections and assumptions
to be used is posted on the City website
- report on discussion with project lead

- CCC will focus on mentions of AVTC in this doc

- report expected to Transportation committee in July

6) AVTC update
- The City is including a specific re-examination of the AVTC as part of
the TMP update ... Status report

7) Status update on Main St re-design
- report/comments from OECA?

8) Future meeting locations
- all city facilities now charging 7$/hr
- do we pay? Other options for meeting places?

9) Any other business:

[John Verbaas]

Please find below the draft agenda for our next mtg and pls note the change

from our typical meeting location. Due to the fact that we are now being
charged for use of any city facilities (including meeting rooms at City
Hall) we will try for this month to meet at a pub. Ida has suggested a
place that DCA has used for meetings...Pubwell's at 96 Preston (at Spruce)

Let me know if there are any other items you would like to have added to the
proposed agenda below.

7:00 p.m., Wed May Jun26th , 2013.
Pubwell's at 96 Preston (at Spruce)

Draft Agenda:

1) Administrative
- Agenda review, Meeting Secretary

- Approval of Minutes: May 29, 2013

2) W-LRT Corridor Selection
- report from Jun PCG meeting
- updates re. mitigation measures along Parkway section of

the Richmond underground route
- No further discussion of Carling Route options

3) Interprovincial Bridge
- Ontario Gov't announcement they will not support a bridge at
the recommended corridor (Kettle I)
- report from NCC presentation to City transportation committee Jun 5th
- discussion of response to be taken by CCC

4) Interprovincial Transit Study
- discussion of the linkages between recommendation of this study
..and the proposed interprovincial bridge at Kettle I

5) Transportation Master Plan 2013 update

- planned April release of future transportation needs

proposals has not yet occurred

- report expected to Transportation committee in July

6) AVTC update

- report on ongoing discussions with Councilor Chernushenko's office
- how to defend against potential City moves to link Mainstreet
..redesign issues with future need for AVTC

7) Status update on Main St complete street re-design
- report/comments from OECA?

8) Proposed changes to Cash-in-lieu of Parking policy
- changes tabled at Planning committee mtg Jun 25hth

9) Multi-use pathway on west side of Rideau R.
- along shoreline through Old Ottawa East
- launch of project design phase

10) Digital Wall sign on South wall of Ottawa Convention Ctr
- the potential sale of naming rights could include a right
..to mount a digital wall sign
- this is a wa to resurrect the proposal again for such a sign
- potetntial meeting in July to discuss community concerns with NCC

11) Any other business:

[John Verbaas]

Please find below the draft agenda for our next mtg. Due to the fact that

we are now being charged for use of any city facilities (including meeting
rooms at City Hall) we will try for this month to meet at a pub.

I would like to suggest the Fox & Feather on Elgin as a quiet (hopefully!)
possibility with large booths available on their lower level.

There are few items to discuss other than the single large, once every 5 yrs
item which is the TMP. Let me know if there are any other items you would

like to have added to the proposed agenda below.

7:00 p.m., Wed Oct 30th , 2013.
Location: Fox & Feather Pub - 283 Elgin (at Maclaren)

Draft Agenda:

1) Administrative
- Agenda review, Meeting Secretary

- Approval of Minutes: Jun 30, 2013

2) 2013 Draft TMP, OCP and Pedestrian Plan review
- discussion of main items of interest of CA's represented by CCC
- see attachments for meeting preparation
- discussion of items which CCC should highlight in its Cross-CA
submission

Please find attached submissions made by Action Sandy Hill and Old Ottawa
East re. the plan. If other CA's have made submissions to the plan, I would
like to request you copy them to the CCC email list and we will base the CCC
response on a blended mix of these.

Also, I attach FYI what was submitted by CCC last spring as preliminary
input to this plan. I have added into the document in orange text
commentary on how these items were (or were not) addressed in the draft
plans we have before us now. We may choose to use some of these as content
for our submission on this final draft plan.

The TMP, OCP, and Ped plan go to Transportation Committee on Nov 15 and then
to council for final approval later in Nov.

John

Some of the highlights from the draft plans from a CCC perspective include:

Active Transportation:
- agreement to fund 50% of Active Transportation projects from development
charges
- commitment to build 3 new active transportation bridges
- Rideau R crossing at Somerset-Donald,
- Canal Crossing at 5th-Clegg,
- Ottawa R. crossing on PoW bridge
- specific list of 69 cycling links to be added with 70m$ funding over next
18yrs
- commitment to expand winter maintenance for key cycling links

Roads:
- removal of AVTC from the road plan until at least post 2031
(ie a postponement of 15 years relative to the 2008 plan)
- similar postponement to the plan for 4-laning PoW drive (except for 1
short section north of Hunt Club)
- pulling forward in the plan the 4-laning of the airport parkway north of
Hunt Club
- reduction in the overall pace of road expansions by as much as half
compared to 2008 plan
- agreement in priniciple to take a 'complete streets' approach to street
redevelopments and an agreement to develop metrics for evaluating quality of
service for walking and cycling so that these quantitative metrics can be
used to help in allocation decisions for the limited space in the
right-of-way among all the different corridor users.

Transit:
- acceleration of the build out of the next phase of the LRT network from
completion in 2031 (2008 plan) to completion by 2023
- while also expanding the size of the LRT plan relative to 2008 by:
- extending LRT from Blair Rd all the way to Place d'Orleans
- extending the O-Train south to Bowesville (& adding more stations
downtown)
- adding a western LRT branch from Lincoln fields to Bayshore
- postponement of plans for southeast BRT line from Blair station towards
Navan
- postponement of plans for western BRT line Kanata towards Stittsville
- addition of many measures for bus priority in mixed traffic areas
throughout the city

If you haven't seen the documents yet, they can be found here:

http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/official-and-master-plans


There are also a number of more detailed background study documents (for
roads and transit and affordability) which the City has not posted on the
general website. These can be accessed at the link below...followed by
scrolling down and clicking on Agenda item #1 and then looking to the right
at the bottom of the page where these documents (doc2, doc3, and doc4 will
appear)... Not exactly going out of their way to make this information
broadly available !!!!

http://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=6239&doctype=AGENDA

John

[John Verbaas]

Please find below the draft agenda for our next mtg. Due to the fact that

we are now being charged for use of any city facilities we will continue
our experiment with meeting at a pub. Last month's group suggested we meet
this time at the Clocktower Pub on Bank just south of the 417. I will place
a candle+candle holder on the table to assist with identifying ourselves to
eachother.

Let me know if there are any other items you would like to have added to the
proposed agenda below.

7:00 p.m., Wed Nov 27th, 2013.
Location: Clocktower Pub, 575 Bank St

Draft Agenda:

1) Administrative
- Agenda review, Meeting Secretary

- Approval of Minutes: Oct 30, 2013

2) 2013 Draft TMP, OCP and Pedestrian Plan review

- report on Nov 15th Transportation Committee Mtg
- lots of presenters asking for more cycling and complete streets
focus
- review of the addendum of proposed changes to Oct 9th draft TMP based on
community feedback
- discussion of City motion in support of a downtown truck tunnel
feasibility study

3) Discussion of proposed areas for focus in 2014 and beyond for CCC
- development charges review (target Jun 2014)
- possible examples: other longer term items:
- turning complete streets policy into complete streets implementations
- sources of revenue for transit/roads/cycling operational and capital
costs
- moving towards an interprovincial transit strategy
- bus route network changes post LRT
- AVTC - how to get it removed entirely from the next TMP?
- Lansdowne Transportation - coming someday soon
- please email to the list if you have other ideas

4) Any other business? Please email if you have items you'd like to
discuss.

www.ccc-ottawa.ca

John