Ottawa East Community Association

The community association held an open house February 29, 2016 so residents could review the final concept plan for the new community park encompassing the Grande Allée and the Deschatelets forecourt within Greystone Village. The plan well reflects the ideas proposed by community members at the park planning meeting held last June at Lady Evelyn School. Over the last eight months the plan has been refined to reflect direction from the City's parks planning section and suggestions from OOECA's parks committee led by Eddie Gillis.

Please join the Old Ottawa East Community Association at a special meeting on Monday, February 22 at 7:00 pm in the Old Town Hall for a discussion of Coach Houses with Emily Davies, a City planner. Note that the City of Ottawa has recently released a Guiding Principles and Draft Recommendations Paper that outlines how such dwellings will be permitted in our city. See http://ottawa.ca/coachhouses for additional information.

City staff have published their latest newsletter with updates on the Main Street construction. The newsletter is available in English and French, and has a corresponding construction map. The newsletter is posted on our Main Street page, along with other background information on the construction.

The OOECA Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Tuesday, November 10, at 7:00 pm at the Church of the Ascension, 253 Echo Drive. All residents are welcome to attend. You can read this presentation for an overview.

OOE volunteers - and OOECA Board members - have remarkable competence, energy, dedication and collaborativeness. They participate to build our whole community, not to have “power,” advance their personal agendas or their own backyard issues. For example, all four past presidents of OOECA - including one who now lives in Sweden - continue to actively contribute to community initiatives.