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Manotick student Justin Reid encourages schoolmates to support Make A Wish Foundation by dyeing, shaving hair. – Page 2
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The Busting out the Brews beer tasting fundraiser made $25,000 for the Osgoode Township Care Centre on Feb. 1. – Page 11
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Dickinson Square ready for facelift City invites developers to learn more about village vision Emma Jackson emma.jackson@metroland.com
EMC news - The Dickinson Square development process is officially underway. The City of Ottawa posted a request for expressions of interest on Merx.com, Canada’s public tenders website on Feb. 1, inviting interested parties to come forward with their ideas and questions about the three properties up for sale or lease in the heart of Manotick. The package includes four designated heritage buildings: Dickinson House, home of the Rideau Township Historical Society; the Ayers building, home of Rural Ottawa South Support Services; the Carriage Shed, used as office and programming space for Watson’s Mill; and Weaver House. It also includes a development opportunity for a “mixed-use innovative and dynamic development” on the Clapp Lane property to the north of Dickinson Square. The city purchased the
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properties in 2007 and they are now managed by the Manotick Mill Quarter Community Development Corporation, of which the city is the sole shareholder. In May, the city began to work with residents and community groups to rezone the properties and make them marketable, while ensuring the heritage and social aspects of the square are maintained. Those rezonings were finally approved in December, limiting storefronts to small boutique-sized spaces and increasing the new development’s height limit from 11 to 12 metres. The development corporation board has also approved a list of architectural guidelines and a permanent special event easement on the square’s open space that must be included as part of the final purchase agreement. The city will host site visits throughout February for prospective developers and will entertain confidential meetings to discuss ideas one-onone throughout March. Dave Powers from the city’s real estate office said the city will compile the feedback received from those meetings and submitted ideas in April and will likely post a request for actual redevelopment proposals in the late spring. “The advantage is to gather as much information from interested parties to develop our own terms of reference for the request for offers,” Powers said. “We’re going into the request for offers in a more informed way.” At a Feb. 7 briefing for members of the Dickinson Square Heritage Management Inc., including members from the village’s community organizations who have a stake in the square, Powers said the chosen developers must have experience adapting heritage buildings, creating “sensitive infill” or managing tourismrelated properties.
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Painting with character Jessica McNeely, a Grade 6 student at Osgoode Public School, helps paint a mural in a hallway at her school on Feb. 7. The mural was designed with the help of Chrysler-based artist Nicole Belanger, who was supported by MASC (Multicultural Arts for Schools and Communities) and the City of Ottawa to spend a week at the school. The mural features silhouettes of students acting out 10 positive character traits, including respect, optimism, appreciation and co-operation.
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