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What Is Section 37 and Why Does It Matter? Condo Developments and Community Benefits DICK STEWART Outcome THE BUZZ Downsizing your book collection, pg 10 Record season forecast for Plouffe Rink, pg 7 MARCH 14, 2014 VOL. 19 NO. 3 At the heart of Ottawa since 1995 CENTRETOWNBUZZ.COM UZZ B SARAH GEL B ARD / YOW LAB What is Section 37 and why does it matter? Condo developments and community benefits DICK STEWART outcome. facilities and services that would some control over what benefits e frequently hear about In planning jargon, this refers to normally be required by the city. are implemented by identifying lo- City Council approv- a “Section 37 approach.” Section 37 The list of potential benefits in- cal neighbourhood improvements W ing a new condo build- of the Planning Act permits munici- cludes cultural and child care facili- through a Community Design Plan ing with greater height and den- palities to approve projects beyond ties, public art, affordable housing, or other processes. sity than the zoning rules allow. the zoning rules in return for “com- parks, improvements to rapid transit Whatever benefits are created, How does that happen and why? munity benefits.” In other words, stations and conservation measures they must have a planning relation- What most of us do not realize is developers can buy their way to an for energy or environment. ship to the development project. that since 2012, Ottawa has adopted exceptional approval. These ben- Perhaps more significantly, it is a formal approach to promote this efits must be over and above those possible for a community to have (Section 37, pg. 5) Questions and concerns about sex work laws With the old prostitution laws struck down, neighbourhoods ponder impact NEIL MCKINNON provinces and existing laws will re- has to come up with new legisla- tution is not harmful to society. main until next December to allow tion. We can’t go on without having “There’s a myth that street-level rostitution is always a hot citizens and politicians time to de- rules or laws. We can’t just have no prostitution is about consenting button topic, but it’s rarely cide how a contemporary Canadian regulation. That won’t work. We adults going off to some place, do- P been hotter than right now. society wants to tackle the issue— lived through what street-level pros- ing their thing and exchanging mon- Last December, the Supreme after that the rules fall, whether or titution does to a community,” says ey, that it doesn’t bother anyone, Court of Canada deemed three Ca- not there are new ones to replace Hintonburg resident Cheryl Parrott. and people should butt out. When ENTRETOWNnadian prostitution laws unconstitu- them. Today, street-level prostitution it’s happening on your property, in tional: activities related to brothels While most sex work takes is almost nonexistent in Hinton- your driveway, in your backyard (or “bawdy houses”), procuring and place indoors, many groups in the burg. Yet, 10 years ago, the area was and on top of your car… You just living on the avails of prostitution city feel the court’s decision will known for it. Condoms and needles can’t live like that. The difference of and communicating in a public place change their communities, particu- were visible in its parks. Many having gotten rid of it is night and for the purposes of prostitution. larly areas where street-level pros- women, including young girls, were day. Nobody wants their kids to be C Several provinces said they will titution (where the transactions take approached while walking around propositioned on the way to school. not prosecute new prostitution-re- place out in the open, rather than in the neighbourhood because they It’s not a pleasant place to live,” lated offences and in some cases ex- houses or online) was historically were mistaken for prostitutes. says Parrott. isting charges are being tossed out. prevalent. Parrott says people have mis- So far, Ontario is not one of these “Clearly the federal government conceptions that street-level prosti- (Sex work ruling, pg 3) 2 CENTRETOWNBUZZ.COM MARCH 14, 2014 March 14, 2014 — Vol. 19, No. 3 THE Letters to the editor CEN T RE T OWN No love for canal locks design. Our congratulations are also rusting this beautiful age to the natural habitat of to the architect! We were bridge, causing permanent Ottawa. Dear Ms. Hunt: very happy when it opened, damage and taking away I recommend that the creating a walkway to join from the original simple aes- city remove all the locks on BUZZ We were very disappoint- both sides of the canal. thetics of the bridge. (The the Corktown Footbridge, At the heart of Ottawa since 1995. ed to read this article [“Love However we do not find graffiti on the bridge also remove all the rust and graf- locks on the Corktown Foot- the thousands of locks on the does not help). Furthermore, fiti and return it to its original 101-210 Gloucester St. bridge”] in the February 14 bridge “romantic.” There are the fact that the thousands and beautiful look. Ottawa, ON edition of The BUZZ. many ugly, bicycle or sports of keys for these thousands K2P 2K4 The Corktown Foot- locks—large locks with of locks are thrown into the Thank you. Phone: 613-565-6012 bridge is a beautiful bridge, cables—on the bridge. The canal is an environmental F.J. Psutka with an elegant and simple locks are ugly. These locks disaster, causing untold dam- A Centretown resident www.centretownbuzz.com twitter.com/centretownbuzz facebook.com/centretownbuzz How the Corktown Footbridge got Centretown BUZZ Staff its name: a springtime story Managing editor by Charles Akben-Marchand to commemorate a specific similar origin story. Each person received a dot Kathryn Hunt | [email protected] person. The Irish weren’t repre- sticker to place on the poster he words “Cork- We met four times, paring sented in the bridges over with their preferred name for Associate editor stown Bridge” on down the submissions first to the Rideau Canal, but the the bridge. Corktown won Eleanor Sawyer T the cover of the eight names, then a shortlist Laurier and Mackenzie King overwhelmingly with over February BUZZ made me of three: Charlotte Whitton, bridges can be said to reflect 150 dots, with fewer than City editor cringe, having been on Corktown, and Somerset. the French-Canadian and five for Somerset and Char- David Gladstone the committee to call it The Charlotte Whitton Scottish-English founding lotte Whitton. the Corktown Footbridge. suggestion elicited strong communities of Bytown/Ot- With this clear mandate, Distribution managers With spring nearing, it’s opposition, much as it did tawa. Rather than celebrat- Councillors Holmes and Archie Campbell & David Seaborn worth sharing the story of years later when Mayor Wat- ing one powerful person, the Bédard presented a motion For distribution questions, please contact the editor how the name came about. son floated the name of Ot- name Corktown helped to to Ottawa City Council and Two days into spring tawa’s first female mayor for commemorate the many un- on June 13, 2007, just a few of 2007, community repre- the new City Archives build- known workers who toiled days before the end of spring, sentatives from both sides ing. Somerset was favoured and died in the construction the bridge was formally and of the Canal were gathered by some for navigational rea- of the locally and nationally officially named Passerelle Advertising by Councillors Diane Hol- sons, though the City’s tech- significant canal. Corktown Footbridge. The mes and Georges Bédard in nical folks worried it might Last, the committee ribbon was cut on September The BUZZ is proud to offer an effective advertising medium that reaches 10,000 Centretown homes and a small meeting room. The be confused with the bridge agreed to call it a “foot- 11, 2007, with many com- businesses each month. Our competitive advertising Pedestrian Bridge Nam- over the O-Train tracks. bridge” rather than a “pe- munity members, politicians, rates are as low as $28 per issue. ing Committee included The strongest support destrian bridge,” which was and costumed volunteers members of the Centretown was for Corktown. While snappier and more inclusive from the Bytown Museum View our rate card and publishing dates at Citizens’ Community Asso- Colonel By is celebrated for of all foot-powered modes, on hand to celebrate. centretownbuzz.com. For more information, email ciation, Action Sandy Hill, supervising the construction including bicycles. [email protected] or call 613-565-6012. Heritage Ottawa, and the of the Rideau Canal, it was On May 29, the sponsor- Charles Akben-Marchand’s University of Ottawa. I sat on mostly Irish who provided ing councillors hosted a com- archived blog, detailing the Next Issue the committee as president of the labour. They lived in an munity meeting at City Hall construction progress of Citizens for Safe Cycling. encampment on the west to conduct a “straw poll” the bridge, can be found at The next issue of The BUZZ will be published The committee mandate bank of the canal called vote for the three names. The pedbridge.blogspot.com. He April 11. Contact the managing editor to find a name for the bridge “Corktown” (and in some Irish community had a cel- can be found online today at for submission deadlines. was actually unprecedented, documents, “Corkstown”) ebration (a “ceili”) outside centretown.blogspot.ca and to the extent that the City’s after County Cork in Ireland, City Hall before the meeting twitter.com/Centretowner. Mail Subscriptions Commemorative Naming Pol- from which most of them and attracted so many enthu- icy only provided for situa- had emigrated.
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