contents VOL 8 '&/U/AÆ3 H ousr /2 A/OTICEGOARO /é CLAUDE 'BENNETT ... /Z ONLY ft MAN ftUftY A3 CITIZEN PARTICIPATION 2 N NO 6 OS CA MEETING- . 3 V/KE3 S TEU/EN - STAM Toç-e/tô /y 08CAR éDITORIAL PAOE y LJftNT ftVS J 6 H/RAGE GrftUEAT !t UOAKOUT , . ,./5 eiute THF PU'bUCfiTlOtJ DftTE FCTR OSCffRô NEXT Apri I ’ 80 ISSUE /s MAY 6. DEOVUve FOR SUS/Y/SS/OMS /5 iïPH/L is. Lewis Motors Leaves, A Lot To Be Desired N/R/f/E SNCKRERMAN Ever since Lewis Motors (Ottawa) Ltd.'s About 20 Ottawa South residents operation screeched to a halt Feb. 22, attended the planning board meeting no one has come forward to buy the and voiced strong opposition to Lewis's defunct dealer's assets. demolition application. Alderman Michèle MacKinnon's as- Marianne LaFrance, then owner of the sistant, Toni Mitchell, said Tuesday no property at 32 Cameron Ave., attended applications have been filed at the City the meeting. She was against the Hall Corp. of Ottawa to turn the former demolition which would have taken dealership into another business. place across the street from her home. Lewis's receivership put its 50 em- Gordon Asher, of 18 Cameron Ave., ployees out of work. also attended the meeting. He had been There was some question as to whether concerned about the additional noise Lewis's workers were to receive their pollution from more customers at last week's wages plus holiday pay. Lewis's if it expanded. "The demolition Happily, that has been resolved. Paul would lead to a rapid deterioration in Vv f ' . ■ this part of the city," he said. Stehlin of Clarkson Gordon and Co., the chartered accountants who handled According to The Citizen, Mellon said he Lewis's receivership, said: "I am only and his partner, Al Celotto, will probably prepared to say the employees have lose about $500,000 from the closing. been paid". Southern Automobiles, a used car According to the Citizen, Owen Mellon, vendor at 1180 Bank St., has had fewer the dealership's co-owner, said Ottawa customers dropping in since Lewis's planning board "killed" the dealership. demise. Southern's owners, Gerry The planning board rejected Lewis's Daley, said people used to comparison application May 1 5 to demolish several shop at both his and Lewis's used car Bank Street buildings housing apart- lots. ments and small businesses to expand Southern has been selling cars at its its site. The demolished site would have present site for four years. "It's too early become a vehicle storage area. to tell, however, if we're losing any Capital Ward Alderman MacKinnon had business because of Lewis's closing," Daley said. opposed the demolition application PHOTO 3/: X SO/ETAER/TAN because the Bank Street East area from Southern's owner said although he had Belmont Avenue to Cameron Avenue no business or personal contact with STRING- IS HERE AND TAC SAT IS RUNN/AJG- would have become "a blighted area of Lewis Motors, he was sure "City Hall wall-to-wall cars and asphalt". wasn't very nice to Lewis's dealership". ANDREA UOLFSOV CT OAMEftON AVE . CMECfÏJ THE TAPS ON A AO CAL. MAPLE -- UEU, AT LEAST THE O AI£$ SME CAN 'REACH'. MfcBCURV UNCOIN LEWIS MOTORS AS /TINAS CAtooe) AND AS T NOO LOOT5 . DESERTED me QUESTION /vou /s 'UNAT U/U NATREN TO THE TWENYf' 2, OScfiif\ April '30 J. D. GERVIN & SONS. LTD. PLUMBING AND HEATING Workshop on GENERAL REPAIRSn=& Citizen Participation Wi/£ MPGÆq/yw On Saturday, February 23, 1980 the Advisory Group had a budget of City held an all day workshop entitled $50,000 over a two year period. The6e "Structures for Information, Communi- expenditures beg the question: Have Special Attention To Repairs And cations and Participation in the City of more people been encouraged to Ottawa." This was the latest in a long participate in the political process. Renovations series of workshops, advisory com- There is reason for doubt. mittees, liaison committees, and infor- The city has a list that was produced in JZ mation committees set up by city 1979. This list contains the names of all council to grapple with the question of the active community groups in the crty. how to involve people in the local This list gives an indication of who is political process. represented by lobby groups and who is Among the many groups that have not. Although there are over 150 groups Sheik Coe submitted recommendations are the on this list there are no groups (outside Citizen's Information Committee (1972), of public housing) that represent ten- r the Community Liaison Committee ants. This is particularly surprising THE REPAIRPERSON (1975), and the Participation Advisory when 60% of the households in the city Group (1978-1979). P.A.G. in turn are renters. There is only one lobby sponsored a workshop that produced group that represents low income frdeetnm! afifiluum even more recommendations. In the fall people even though, according to the LARGE & small of 1979 both the City Clerks department Social Planning Council, 16% of the and the Human Resources Division also families and 39% of the individuals in produced reports on the subject. Plan- Ottawa live on or below the poverty line. 234-4726 ning Board was then asked to submit a There are no groups representing the proposal to city council on how best to unemployed even though 25,000 Ot- encourage citizen participation. Instead tawa residents are out of work. There is they decided not to take a position but to no group, unlike other urban centres, establish another committee to organize that has the rsearch capacity to present the February workshop which would counter arguments to the economic produce yet another report. development strategies of the big ALLEN end MIOSI LTD. BANK «nd RIVERDALE B.P. SERVICE 1305 BANK ST., OTTAWA, ONT. K1S 3Y2 Specializing in rtpairs to all Mikai of oars Owner— ANDREA MIOSI S 21 » 4*16 ». — ■ . -•——i—■.—-—-—-A■■■«» TXCH/t/es "PHOTO Antiques CSCOH. «f THOTOT Stuff There is much confusion around this business lobbies like the Ottawa Board issue and this partly explains why it has of Trade or the Visitors and Convention taken city hall so long to make up its Bureau. In fact the list is heavily mind on a definitive policy statement. weighted in favour of community To some a citizens participation policy groups dominated by middle and upper simply means that the city should middle class property owners. inform the community of decisions that affect it. It is then up to a group or The expenditures on the Neighbour- individual to decide on whether to hood Studies, the Participation Ad- participate or not. To others the policy visory Group, and the two year experi- must go further. Not only must the city ment with the Human Resources inform but it must also ensure that all Division have singularly failed in chang- Professional Refinishing, sides of an issue are debated by people ing the middle class nature of the city's being affected by it. This means the city community group structure. Indeed the has an obligation to assist in the Human Resources Division refused to Restoration and formation and operation of interest help the Glebe Tenants Association groups that would be silent without when it was starting to form. It is in this such assistance. area that the city must stop forming Upholstering on premises committees and holding workshops and The confusion and inaction around this start instituting some positive action. complex policy debate has not pre- vented the city from acting on the The Participation Advisory Group stated concept of citizens participation. The the best way to deal with this problem is Neighbourhood Studies process, many to establish a $300,000 ^community open public meetings, the publishing of development fund that would directly ^Critiques ^Bought and Sold committee agendas in Saturday News- fund interest groups representing low papers, the establishment of advisory and moderate income individuals. This Open- committees, and the funding of various fund would simply continue the city's Tues, to Sat. 10 to 6 community groups have all been under- committment to participation as dem- taken while the policy debate has been onstrated through the funding of the occuring. These efforts have also been Neighbourhood Studies. It must be Sundays 10 to 5 backed by a significant financial com- recognized that the participation efforts mitment. Between 1974-78 the city of the city to date have been dominated 1095 Bank Street, Ottawa spent $?..5 million on the Neighbour- by the interests of business and hood Studies. The Human Resources property owners. It is time the city put a (613) 234-9070 Division (the organizers of public similar financial committment behind meetings and the division responsible the political participation of the majority for citizens participation) has an annual of the population: Low and moderate budget of $200,000. The Participation income people and renters. PUBLIC OSCf)f{ ~ fiprii SO j STING OTTAWA SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION TIME : 8=00 P.M. Thursday, MAY 1 PLACE: Firehall (Community Centre) Sunnyside & Fairbairn The Ottawa South Community Association will be holding a special annual general meeting to "celebrate" our incorporation. This meeting is of fundamental importance as it will mark our formal transition to corporation status. Agenda: Members: 1. Winding up of OSCA (unincorporated) All members of OSCA (uninc.) in good standing (i.e. dues paid) will become 2. Adoption of By-Law #1 (constitution) of OSCA Inc. members of OSCA Inc. on April 17 before the special general meeting.