2010 Planning Primer Program

From the City of Ottawa:

Have you ever wondered how land-use planning is done? What those black and white signs in your community mean? How a zoning application is made? How to make a presentation to Planning Committee? What land-use planners do for your community?

Now is your time to find out

The Planning and Growth Management Department is offering the Planning Primer Program to help residents become more aware of, and more involved in, the land-use planning process.  The program is a series of half-day courses.  The series includes two core courses and a series of elective courses.

• The core courses, called Primer I and Primer II, describe the legislative and policy basis under which land-use planning decisions are made, the way policy documents are amended and how to make a development application.
• The elective courses differ each year.  In the spring of 2010 we offered a session on the Ontario Municipal Board. A new Parks Planning elective will be held in November.

To make the most of the information being presented, residents must attend the Primer I course before attending Primer II and attend both the Primer I and II courses before attending an elective course. The content of these Primer courses is the same as those offered in previous years.

Come Join Us

Primer I Course
Saturday, September 18 or Monday, September 20
Colonel By Room, 2nd Floor, City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West
8:30 a.m. to noon
Register no later than September 15, 2010

Primer II Course
Saturday, October 23 or Monday, October 25
City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West, Festival Control Room, Main Floor
8:30 a.m. to noon
NOTE: Participants must attend the Primer I session before attending Primer II

Elective Course:  Parks Planning
Registration for the Parks Planning elective course will open at the end of October.
NOTE: The courses are offered in English only.

SLOWest Fall seminar series

From SLOWest:

Interested in making a few changes to reduce your family’s environmental footprint?  Looking to save money and energy? Then attend one or more FREE local seminars in your neighbourhood!  Sustainable Living Ottawa West (SLOWest) in partnership with Maison Tucker House, presents The Seventh Generation Learning Series the forth Monday of each month, from 6:30 – 8pm hosted by Carbon Computing in their upstairs classroom, 1065 Wellington Street West.

Monday Sept 27 – Simple and Sustainable Living

Monday October 25 – Get Energy Smart!

Monday November 22 – Ecological Home Renovations

The series will also continue with more seminars in Jan 2011.  For more details about the seminars, visit www.SLOWest.ca.