Recent Projects
Adaptive Re-use of 7 Bayview Road, Fall 2011
The Hintonburg-Mechanicsville Neighbourhood Planning Initiative Continuity Task Force and the Wellington West Business Improvement Area (WWBIA) commissioned a team of second year graduate students from the School of Urban Planning at McGill University to create a plan for 7 Bayview Road in Ottawa. The sites consists of a vacant building owned by City of Ottawa Public Works and a portion of the adjacent lot and is surrounded by municipal operations.
The team prepared four possible site plans that include recommendations to reconnect historic Mason Street, green the site, provide active transportation pathways, create opportunities for community gardening, create attractive and intimate public spaces, minimize parking requirements, ensure additional buildings are mixed-use and feature human scale elements. The preferred plan recommends the creation of a public square framed by a restored and extended public works building, and two new buildings; one consisting of 10-12 storeys and one of 4-6 storeys.
McGill Team: Strata Planning (Cynthia Jacques, Jordan Kemp, Kaela Schramm, Megan Shrubsole)
Full Report PDF (~11.7MB)
Full Report (to print) PDF (~10.5MB)
Reference Document PDF (~31.7MB)
Reference Document (to print) PDF (~32MB)
Letter to Client PDF (~0.2MB)
Marco Polo Mixed Use Urban Village Concept Plan, Oak Street Complex Fall 2010
In partnership with the Preston Street Business Improvement Area, Creative Neighbourhoods hosted a team of 2nd year graduate students from McGill University's School of Urban Planning to develop a concept plan and governance model for the Marco Polo Mixed-use Urban Village. The proposed mixed use infill development is intended for the Oak Street Complex site located within the boundaries of both Little Italy and the West Centretown neighbourhood.
The team incorporated fresh food sources, provisions for active and affordable transportation choices, sustainable building design, affordable housing options and community gathering and art spaces into the final concept plan. The team also prepared five case studies of comparable, successful public markets located in major urban centres in North America.
McGill Team: Groundwork (David Beitel, Jill Lance, Megan Rolph, Emily Sangster, Maxim Wells)
Full Report PDF (~35MB)
Progress Report PDF (~8.4MB)
Project Presentation PDF (~5MB)
Parkdale Avenue Corridor Plan, Fall 2009
Creative Neighbourhoods employed a team of Urban Planning students from McGill University to produce a Parkdale Avenue Corridor Plan, identifying long-, medium - and short-term opportunities & actions, relating to local issues such as - but not limited to - land use, streetscaping, traffic management, and air quality monitoring.
McGill Team: Abode (Angela Brinklow, J. Adam Dudeck, Brendan Pinches, Rafael Villarreal-Pacheco, Molly Wilson)
Full Report PDF (~9MB)
Project Presentation PDF (~27MB)
Project Presentation Boards PDF (~15MB)
Urban Greenspace Reclamation Concept, Fall 2008
This project consisted of the creation of an inter-institutional green space reclamation concept plan for an inner block greenspace in Ottawa’s Hintonburg neighbourhood. Specifically, the mandate involved configuring the physical design of the greenspace, as well as the challenges of increasing accessibility to a private space, dealing with security and safety within the space, and ensuring a harmonious co-habitation for all potential users. In addition, the concept plan will addressed short, medium, and long-term operation, maintenance, funding, and management schemes.
McGill Team: Urban Routes (Tyler Baker, Asumpta Cerda, Kendra Ferguson, Lisa Kastelberger, Niki Roehrig)
Full Report PDF (~15MB)
Project Pamphlet PDF (~5MB)
Project Presentation PDF (~3MB)
Streetscape and Façade Design Guidelines for Wellington Street West, Fall 2007
During the fall of 2007 Creative Neighbourhoods, in conjunction with a team of Urban Planning students from McGill University and the Wellington Street West Business Improvement Area (B.I.A.) Steering Committee, set out to determine how property and business owners along the Wellington Street West corridor can make a positive impact on their neighbourhood through small scale streetscape and building façade design.
McGill Team: UrbanISA (Ilja Green, Sherry Hergott, Andrew Charles)
Full Report PDF (~3MB)
Project Presentation PDF (~2MB)
City of Ottawa Neighbourhood Planning Initiative, 2007
Creative Neighbourhoods became actively involved in facilitating citizen participation in the City of Ottawa’s Neighbourhood Planning Initiative (NPI). The NPI seeks to increase citizen participation in a better-coordinated planning process. The initiative begins with the Wellington West Mainstreet District in a year-long pilot project.
Investigation into a GIS-based Community Monitoring System for the Wellington West Mainstreet District, Fall 2006
In an effort to support local planning Creative Neighbourhoods (in conjunction with a team of Urban Planning students from McGill University) researched and propsed a GIS-based Community Monitoring System as a useful tool to facilitate communication between citizens and policy makers and to encourage local participation in the community’s development.
McGill Team: Appleseed Consulting (Fiona Akins, Rebecca Foon, Jacob Ritchie, Sara Tabatabaie, Guoying Zeng)