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"Lansdowne Park, Bayview Stadium/Cultural Centre, Library" presentation at the Canal Ritz, Ottawa, 7:00 AM/7h0" 0 Thursday/jeudi August 27/le 27 août 2009

 

From: "J E Martin" <je_martin (at) rogers.com>


Lansdowne Park, Bayview Stadium/Cultural Centre, Library presentation
at the Canal Ritz, Ottawa,
7:00 AM/7h00 Thursday/jeudi August 27/le 27 août 2009
 **PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN ARRIVAL TIME TO 07:00 DUE TO LARGER NUMBERS.** 
 
A brief background to the situation in Ottawa is that there has
been a desire for many years to develop Lansdowne Park, seen below:
 
The main obstacle has been the stadium with the associated requirement for parking since there is
no rapid transit .
 
A design competition was underway last year with initiatives to remove the stadium and develop a
park. Progress was being made when the Mayor stated that he had been approached by a sole source
developer with a proposal to develop. The group is called OSEG (Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group)
and headed by Roger Greenberg of Minto, Bill Shenkman of Shenkman Development, John Ruddy of
Trinity and Jeff Hunt owner of the Ottawa 67's Hockey team and conditional franchise holder of a new
CFL team. 
 
They came up with the following (www.lansdownelive.ca ):
The initiative I came up with for VO - AO after listening to the public during the design competition is the
following:
 
 My proposal is designed to unify all Ottawa and Gatineau and developers. Lansdowne becomes a park as originally
inteneded by the Ottawa Horticultural Society over 130 years ago and Bayview becomes the new stadium location
along with the cultural centre and library.
 
It is a natural crossroads, a place where all come together to celebrate at Bayview.  
 
The stadium is 25,000 with 3,500 parking spots  at Lansdowne .

Larger stadiums in Europe and South America have 4 times the seats at upwards of 100,000 seats but less
than 100 parking spots.

The answer quite simply is rapid transit.

For game days in Ottawa (Mostly Sundays for football and some Tuesday evenings for Major League Soccer)
Tunney's Pasture, one rapid transit stop away from the proposed Bayview Stadium, has close to 4,000 spots
unused by government.

To attract the Gatineau population from across the river clearly it is much easier to just hop over the bridge to the
Bayview site than it is to try and push through downtown Ottawa.

Rapid transit is key to the success of the stadium, will provide the maximum access to the library that the Ottawa
Public Library wants for its new location, allows for views and light and quiet, as at Lansdowne with the development of
the park and integration of water and promotion of renewable energy, music, calm, cooler micro climate, inegration of the
canal and opening up the site from the waterway.

The list goes on but I think you see the picture.

With the stadium, cultural centre and library at Bayview Yards.
Bayview currently looks like this:
 
And site plan with stadium, cultural centre and library placed in:
 
Approach from Gatineau with link up of train as part of Rapid Transit use (track is there but not used over river):
 
Approach from Ottawa from SE:
Ground approach from SW:
 
And walking inside ground level:
Sample look of view from library at Bayview:
 
The concept is about light and space and areas of tranquility and to get there by opening up the imaginations
of the architects and designers through open competitive bidding.
 
The Bayview Yards has been maligned as not being a site to develop due to its contamination.
 
Now, through MUHC in Montréal we have a case study that directly applies.
 
The Westmount/Vendome rail yards in Montreal were contaminated from a rail yard.
 
The Bayview Yards is Ottawa is a former rail yard.
 
The Montréal site was successfully rehabilitated to levels to safely establish a hospital.
 
Clearly the same can be done in Ottawa for a stadium/ cultural centre and library.
 
We are the Nations Capital and can be setting the standard in LEED development and design.
 
We are at a crossroads, a change to listening to our earth and its needs and cleaning her wounds
and treating her softly will in turn help us heal as well.
 
The sun the wind the warmth of the earth are all available to provide us the power to go ahead.
 
The grass and trees to cool our air and climate and to provide the quiet and shelter that we
desperately need and understand.
 
This is our chance to make a change and to bring people together to concepts and ideas that have
beauty, nature and are understandable and that make us grow by taking responsibility now for those
to come after us.
 
This is my dream, my goal and that of many others.
 
 I  look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience .
 
All the best, et à bientôt.
 
John E. Martin
 
John E. Martin,
Founder/Fondateur VO - AO ,
Vitally Ottawa - Absolument Ottawa
Ph./tél: 613.898.1284
(www.vo-ao.ca         will be live the afternoon of August 29, 2009)
(jemartin@vo-ao.ca   will be live the afternoon of August 29, 2009)
 
 
 
 

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