• Environment Canada
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• Destination Kiosk
• Weather Underground

Follow the city proceedings to keep tabs on what is happening.

Link to:  http://vca.ncf.ca/cas.htm for a list of community websites.
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NEW: Ottawa city website offers a truly fantastic zoning map resource at http://apps104.ottawa.ca/emap/ic_startPage.aspx. Using this feature, you can zoom into your own property and determine the present and future zoning, transportation, water, see the air photo, and much more. Note that the feature will ask you to install a mapping software, which takes only about a minute to instal, and needs to be installed only once.

Ongoing suggestions submitted by people in our community, and community responses, will be tracked (link to Concepts).

Save Our Greenspace is working to save the greenspace land along the Airport Parkway that the City wants to turn into a railway yard as part of the North-South LRT project

Site of the owner/manager of Hunt Club McCarthy Mall

Sidewalks. No sidewalks means more cars, making it less safe for the fewer of us who still choose to walk. Children have to play in the street, meaning that parents have to supervise their play. 

Visual appeal. What do you see when you look down your street? Any suggestions as to what you would like to see?

Working with the City: Community groups can work with the City to develop secondary plans for their community - based on the City's official plan. The last attempt to produce a secondary plan was in 1998 when we created a Public Advisory Committee (PAC) to plan and formally establish a vision for our community. The process eventually fizzled out due to a number of factors. The results from this process are available at Official Plan Volume 2A Secondary Plans. As reference regarding the directions and objectives of that PAC, see commentary, and agenda. This portal for formally trying to gather ideas and secure commitments from both our community and the City is always open but requires considerable effort.

Click to some planning efforts around the world: 

• EcoVillage at Ithaca, New York, USA

New online zoning bylaw project. The City is consolidating its various zoning bylaws into one and putting them online. How to Find Your Proposed Zoning shows one in a series of strategy outlines summarizing some of the concepts proposed for the New Comprehensive Zoning By-law. Contact Dave Leclair, Planning, Environment and Infrastructure Policy Branch at 613-580-2424, ext.13871, or at David.Leclair@ottawa.ca.

New yellow bag program. In 2006, the City will be offering an optional comprehensive curbside recycling and waste collection service to small non-residential establishments. The program will begin following further consultation with the business community.

Ottawa Online. To join the City's e-mail list, or to find out more about how to 'Plug in to your City', go to www.ottawa.ca/city_hall/events
/plug_in_en.shtml and follow the online instructions. You may also now dial 311.

Josh Martin, a resident of Prince of Wales Dr., launched his first interactive serial novel in early February. See Murkworld at http://www.plothinge.com.

John Nihmey, who has just written a book, Fireworks and Folly, a story of the life and death of a native woman in Hull, and how we are all responsible for that death.

OC Transpo

Bus schedules:
41, 45, 87, 116, 145, 146, 147.
(Hunt Club area transit map)

Ottawa Light Rail Project (links):
new Ottawa Light Rail Transit website
City public consultation
East-West Corridor LRT Project
Ottawa Rail Transit and Public Transport Developments
Ottawa-Carleton Light Rail System Map
Ride the O-Train
LRTA Links: Systems Sites
Ottawa Streetcar 696 Restoration Group
Ringing Ottawa with Light Rail
Ottawa Light Rail Future
Light Rail Atlas
Light Rail Transit Association (LRTA), London, England
Bombardier CITYFLO solutions
Alstom light rail vehicles
Light rail in Houston, Texas

Calling all naturalists, join the marsh monitoring program. For precise information, contact Sara Gagné, PhD candidate, Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Research Laboratory, Carleton University (613) 262-5785 or write or contact Bird Studies Canada P.O. Box 160, Port Rowan N0E 1M0 (519) 586-3531 or 1-888-448-BIRD (2473) or visit http://www.bsc-eoc.org.

If you need money to implement a local environmental project, you can apply for support from Evergreen, which is a registered national charity founded in 1991. Evergreen is a national non-profit environmental organization with a mandate to bring nature to our cities through naturalization projects. Evergreen motivates people to create and sustain healthy, natural outdoor spaces and gives them the practical tools to be successful. For precise information, go to their website at http://www.evergreen.ca/en/index.html.

Pine forest south of Hunt Club Rd. is gradually being sold, bought, and cut down to make way for a new development - just west of Paul Anka Dr. Real estate agent for the lease/sale is J. J. Barnicke (see website; phone 613-232-1215). Contact David Lees, Vice President and managing director at lees_d@jjb.com

EarthCare, sponsored by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. EarthCARE is an action-oriented environmental education program designed to develop students and staff as environmental stewards. For more information, refer to FAQs.

Advancing environmental stewardship in Ottawa GREENPRINT and the Ottawa Stewardship Council invite you and your organization to participate in establishing, operating, and growing the Ottawa Community Stewardship Centre. The City of Ottawa's Environmental Advisory Committee endorses the goals of the Ottawa Community Stewardship Centre in: 1) providing a central source of comprehensive local information from all groups with an interest in environmental stewardship; and 2) improving the capacity for local groups to collaborate and to access and share products and services they need.

Survey of Pesticide Use Policies and Bylaws The finalized report for Canada and the Western U.S., is now available through the at Responsible Pest Management website

This site is intended for the community of people living in the Hunt Club area in south Ottawa. Its objective is to gather information about the community and from those living there so that we can use that information to collectively improve our standard of living. This site is maintained by the Hunt Club Community Organizaton (HCCO) on the National Capital Freenet.

Experienced professional housekeeper - will do cleaning, cooking or washing. Contact Carole French at 613-736-0522.

Rock Radovan is looking for people interested in the environment and renewable energy, such as in developing and selling solar panels in bulk. He is in the process of developing a community power co-operative (a not-for-profit one) and needs feedback from interested people. Provincial laws for cooperatives state that you need at least 5 people (at a minimum) to be able to incorporate. Contact Rock at email solarottawa@rogers.com or the website at http://www.sustainableottawa.ca/news.php for more information.

• Community discussion group.
• Police (Eng) (Fr).
• City of Ottawa
• Covenants:
• Glengables Village 722-8000.
• Settler's Grant, Alan Thompson at 236-3666, pager 2094.
• Virginia Natural Heritage Program