Planning

Update on Berms and LRT in Connaught Park: Deadline extended to April 20

We would like to share that you have a few more days to take a look at plans for berms in Connaught Park and send in your thoughts. The deadline was extended to April 20, after your association asked for more time.

Thanks to those who have already spoken up. More voices will help get the best possible design.

Go to www.connaughtpinecrest.ca  to see photos and respond (higher resolution PDFs are available in our previous post). If you copy qtncommunity@gmail.ca on your response, we will help ensure that residents get answers to their questions and concerns.

Based on your feedback, three points are emerging as priorities for QTN residents:

  1. The fly-over, berms, and tree-plantings need to be designed together in a way that reduces the visual and noise impact of the LRT for residents and users of the public green space.
  2. The berms need to be part of a user-friendly landscape plan that includes convenient paths for biking and walking; recreational uses; a variety of trees, including fruit trees;  quiet spaces and spaces for dog-walkers; with possibilities for other uses such as a community garden.
  3. The landscape plan needs to ensure good drainage, allow for renewal of the Pinecrest Creek, and ensure good connectivity to LRT stations and other destinations.

Act now, April 15 deadline – Public consultation on Berms and LRT through QTN

We just learned that public input for the proposed berms between the Connaught Park LRT fly-over and QTN community has been opened for feedback. You can participate by visiting www.connaughtpinecrest.ca – note that the consultation closes on April 15, one week from today.

We are asking you to show that QTN residents care about what happens in Connaught Park by going to the website and providing some feedback. Provide your own views, ask questions, ask for more information. Most important at this time is to let the contractor and the National Capital Commission know that QTN residents care and that the impacts for our neighborhood need to be considered in the design of both the LRT structure itself and the berms and landscaping that go along with it.

QTN is more than a corridor to get from Kanata to downtown. How the LRT is designed and built through our area will have long-term impacts. Your voice now will help ensure that we get the best possible design of both the fly-over and what is done to mitigate the visual and sound impacts of a tall and large structure that will be part of our future reality.

We are troubled by the lack of detailed information as well as the limited ways and time provided for consultation. Your community association representatives sit a working group established by Councillor Kavanaugh and we will continue to work hard to make sure that the shared concerns and positive suggestions of QTN residents are considered.

When sending your feedback to info-KEV@kiewit.com, if you copy qtncommunity@gmail.com – or contact us separately – we will follow up as the process moves into the next stages after this one week email consultation has completed. Our ability to be effective depends on working together as a community. Other communities have seen changes to benefit their communities.

We will do our best; we need your help now. Let your neighbors know and encourage them to respond as well.

For additional information, please see our earlier post regarding Updates on LRT Phase 2

Update #1 – Higher-resolution PDF Drawings

It has come to our attention that the consultation website drawings are difficult to read. Here are a pair of PDF documents that the Stage 2 LRT team has shared with us of Connaught Park and Pinecrest (note: the drawing is labelled Pinecrest but the berm is actually in Bel-Air Park off Woodroffe).

Update #2 – Deadline modified to April 20

Originally the contractor’s website listed a deadline of April 15th, this has been modified to April 20th. We have also been made aware of a Public Consultation Notice (PDF, bilingual) detailing aspects of the consultation process.

Trees and Sidewalks: Call for community input!

QTN residents value tree-lined streets and want sidewalks to safely move about on foot.

rubber-sidewalk-light-gray1Connaught Avenue is our focus now. The City has budgeted for a sidewalk to be built in 2020-2021.

Pedestrian safety is also an issue on other streets.

QTN residents have an opportunity to provide input into the Connaught project planning process .

Come, learn about options, and give your input before the City makes its decisions.

Join us at the upcoming QTN Winter Carnival, Sunday, February 9th from 2 to 5 pm inside the field house.  Meet your neighbours around a table with a map and share your thoughts.

We welcome your ideas to improve QTN for walking, cycling, and street safety. All are welcome to bring photos of places they have seen good solutions.

For those that cannot make it on February 9th, we would value your constructive comments and suggestions.  Please email your comments to us!