heritage – ASH-ACS

(Strathcona Park trees, photo: Judith Gustafsson)

For information on planting trees, see Ecology Ottawa’s Tree Ottawa page.

Sandy Hill residents have formed a Tree Group. Join us! Email sandyhilltreegroup@gmail.com and we will add you to the Group’s distribution list. The group has brain-stormed the following ideas to improve the tree canopy in, and green up, Sandy Hill:

Plant a community orchard in Strathcona Park next to the Community Gardens just south of Dutchie’s Hole.
Build on existing work to develop a tree inventory for Sandy Hill and link it to Tree Ottawa’s Open Tree Map.
Call on the City to:
- Link street de-/repaving and reconstruction to traffic calming and greening, with the support of those residents whose street is being repaved.
- Propose traffic calming bulb outs with perennial-filled beds. Perennials are to be donated by SH residents with composted soil and access to the ground layer by the City.
- Here are two examples: one from Laurier Ave. in Montreal and the other from Booth St. south of Gladstone:

Apply more strictly its rules around construction and the protection of trees. Protection needs to include the entire root ball of the tree, not just the trunk.
Plant a diverse variety of native tree species in its streetscaping and park planting initiatives including fruit and nut trees to increase our urban food forest where appropriate.
Revive the Heritage Tree Program and work for Sandy Hill heritage trees to be protected.

The City held an Open House Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at the Sandy Hill Community Centre to discuss the Sandy Hill Heritage Study. The study, initiated in 2007, covered a large portion of Sandy Hill between King Edward Avenue and the Rideau River and Besserer and Somerset Streets. The final report from the study, issued in 2010, made a number of recommendations for further protection of the heritage character of the study area.

At the Open House, the City presented their plans for implementing some of these recommendations. The recommendations included: new draft guidelines for the management of the existing heritage conservation districts, the proposed creation of a new Sandy Hill Cultural Heritage Character Area covering the whole of the study area, and draft guidelines for the management of this new Cultural Heritage Character Area. All of these documents have been posted on the City’s website, link below, and we would encourage you all to provide comments.

Action Sandy Hill is pleased to finally see action on the implementation of some of the recommendations of the study, however, we feel the City still needs to take further action to preserve and protect our built heritage. In particular, we continue to believe that new heritage conservation districts are warranted and that areas of Sandy Hill not covered by the previous study should be the subject of a future one.

ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public-consultations/planning-and-infrastructure/open-house-june-26-2014

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Le 26 juin dernier, la Ville a tenu une Journée portes ouvertes au Centre Communautaire Côte-de-Sable afin de discuter de l’étude patrimoniale de la Côte-de-Sable.

Lancée en 2007, cette étude portait sur une grande partie de la ville de la Côte-de-Sable, entre l’avenue King Edward, le Canal Rideau et les rues Besserer et Somerset. Le rapport final tiré de cette étude, publié en 2010, a fait un certain nombre de recommandations en vue de renforcer la protection du patrimoine de la zone concernée par l’étude.

Lors de cette journée portes ouvertes, la Ville a présenté ses plans pour mettre en œuvre certaines de ces recommandations. Celles-ci comprenaient notamment : un nouveau projet de directives pour la gestion des districts de conservation du patrimoine actuel, le projet de création d’une nouvelle zone à caractère patrimonial et culturel à Côte-de-Sable couvrant l’ensemble de la zone d’étude, et des projets de directives pour la gestion de ce nouvel espace à caractère patrimonial et culturel. L’ensemble de ces documents est affiché sur le site de la Ville (voir le lien ci-dessous), nous invitons chacun d’entre vous à nous faire part de vos commentaires.

L’Action Côte-de-Sable se réjouit de voir enfin des mesures concernant l’application des recommandations formulées dans l’étude, néanmoins, nous pensons que la Ville doit encore prendre d’autres mesures pour préserver et pour protéger notre patrimoine bâti. Nous continuons notamment de croire que les nouveaux districts de conservation du patrimoine sont nécessaires et que les zones de la Côte-de-Sable qui n’étaient pas concernées par l’étude précédente devraient faire l’objet d’une prochaine étude.

ottawa.ca/fr/hotel-de-ville/consultations-publiques/amenagement/reunion-portes-ouvertes-le-26-juin-2014