The Crystal Beach Lakeview community association has a committee whose purpose has been “To further the Crystal Beach Lakeview community’s interest in the area of anything that relates to transportation, transit, and infrastructure.”
The committee has changed its name from “Transportation, Transit, and Infrastructure Committee (TTIC)” to “Transportation, Infrastructure and Planning Committee (TIP)”.
Why?
The first name, “(TTIC)” was born in the enormous issues the committee was dealing with at the time–construction of Highway 416 and relocation of Acres Road, a bridge proposed to run from 416 through Andrew Haydon Park to Quebec, widening of Highway 417, and the Bus Rapid Transit and Light Rail Transit projects.
Transit is covered by the word transportation and the committee will certainly continue to deal with transit issues, but the former name does not accurately reflect much of what the committee has been doing.
The committee has spent a lot of the last few years working on planning proposals, like Ottawa’s new Official Plan, apartments at Bedale and Carling, Villa Lucia, and Bayshore, the Low-rise Urban Design Guidelines, and the Province’s Bill 23, to name a few. That’s not going to change with the new zoning bylaw arriving shortly, short-term bylaws to deal with Provincial and Federal changes to the Official Plan, site plans, a proposed development in Bells Corners, intensification generally, and who knows what else. The name change just recognizes the work the committee has already been doing and will continue to do.
A past to be proud of
The community and especially the volunteers who worked and work on the committee had wonderful successes under the old name, such as:
• Installation of multi-use pathways (MUPs) along the new Acres Road
• Stopping the bridge through Andrew Haydon Park
• Keeping the MTO Highway Maintenance Patrol Yard off “our” Greenbelt
• Moving the Light Maintenance and Storage Facility (LMSF) away from our backyards
• Collaboration with the Ottawa Carleton Wildlife Center and government on restoration of the Greenbelt wetlands at Moodie
• Rewriting the Official Plan to recognize that Moodie Station, as a station built on Greenbelt land, is not to be a typical target of intensification.
Our name should reflect what we do though, so the name of the committee is now “Transportation, Infrastructure, and Planning” committee (the “TIP”). May it enjoy continued success under its new name!
Is there something you want to change?
If you want to learn what the issues are, and advocate for Crystal Beach Lakeview, if you
like researching, writing, and talking about what can be better, join the TIP. You don’t have to wait for the community association’s annual general meeting. To join at any time, contact the Chair of the Transportation, Infrastructure and Planning Committee.
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