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1 Vision: 3 Priorities

Transit

A STATION FOR STITTSVILLE

The quality and reliability of transit has deteriorated over the past several years especially for us in Stittsville, letting down riders who rely on it and pushing away those who want to be able to use it.

Stittsville needs and deserves a bus station to serve as a central transit hub for the community and to fundamentally restructure transit to better serve us. With a bus station, we can increase local transit coverage by running more local routes within the community and furnishing it with a park and ride that connects riders to a more direct service to downtown Ottawa and provides transit connections to other communities like Barrhaven and Algonquin College and potentially even to Carp and Richmond.

  • Enhancing Bus Rapid Transit

    Expand the addition of bus lanes, Bus Rapid Transitways, and transit priority signaling to improve transit speed, efficiency, and quality of service for riders.

  • Supplementing with On-Demand Transit

    Support a city-run on-demand ridesharing/taxi service similar to Metro Micro in Los Angeles and building off the pilot in Blackburn Hamlet to fill gaps in our transit, particularly for rural residents and communities.

  • Restoring Citizen Representation in Transit
    Re-establish the citizen seat on the Transit Commission to ensure riders are involved and have a say in transit decision-making and are better able to hold the commission accountable.

  • Improving Affordability of Transit
    Work towards fare-free transit for riders under 18, seniors, and recipients of the Ontario Disabilities Support Program and Ontario Works to improve transit affordability for those most dependent on it.

Community Planning

PROACTIVE PLANNING FOR GROWTH

Infrastructure and services are getting outpaced by the speed of development in Stittsville but, at the same time, housing and growth are needed to improve housing affordability and support our community.

A Community Design Plan (CDP) for Hazeldean Road, taking inspiration from the CDP for Stittsville Main Street, would allow for the community, not developers or the province, to take initiative and responsibly guide and plan growth on Hazeldean Road. A CDP would allow for proactive and big picture planning of the infrastructure and services needed to support the growth of our community but also to take into account the housing and development needed to build our growing community.

  • Ensuring Benefits from Developments

    Develop a Community Benefits Framework for Ottawa, similar to the one established in Toronto, to enforce on developers to contribute and deliver more on benefits in our communities like with infrastructure and parks.

  • Expanding Access to Key Services

    Continue Councillor Gower's work on the Kanata-Stittsville Primary Care Health Hub and see it to its completion and increase childcare access by creating more city-run and non-profit childcare spaces.

  • Protecting our Wetlands and Tree Canopy
    Leverage municipal planning powers to create protections for our wetlands so they aren't solely dependent on the province for protection and to preserve more of our existing tree canopy that protects us from the summer heat.

  • Preserving Affordable Housing
    Create a Housing Acquisition Fund to purchase affordable properties and rental buildings that go on the market and transfer them to non-profit housing providers to preserve the affordable housing stock.

Road Safety

SAFE STREETS FOR ALL

Stittsville's roads are becoming busier with more traffic leading to higher risks of serious collisions for road users and yet Ottawa only plans to end fatalities and serious injuries on our roads by the year 2035.

A comprehensive Vision Zero Action Plan is needed to more quickly improve road safety in Stittsville for the cyclists biking on our roads, for the students walking to school, and for the drivers in our community. A more ambitious timeline to implement policy changes like restricting right turns on red and to move through our infrastructure backlog faster including the upgrades of Stittsville Main Street and Fernbank Road is needed to meet the goal of Vision Zero sooner and make our roads safer all.

  • Closing the Connectivity Gaps

    Fill in the gaps of unconnected and broken paths, abruptly ending and missing sidewalks, and the lack of safe and accessible crosswalks throughout Stittsville like along West Ridge Drive and Iber Road.

  • Encouraging More School Streets

    Support the growth of the School Streets initiative to create car-free zones at schools during drop-off and pick-up to reduce vehicle traffic at schools and create safe environments for students to walk and bike to school.

  • Enabling Safe Cycling in our Community
    Build the necessary cycling infrastructure that is lacking in our community like on Hazeldean Road and West Ridge Drive to ensure residents can travel safely and uninterrupted throughout our community by bike.

  • Rolling out Sound Cameras
    Study a pilot of ‘sound cameras' to address excessive noise and noise disturbance from vehicles and as a means to crack down on unsafe street racing on our roads.

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