Recreation Facility Infrastructure Standards and Strategy
We need your help to:
- Create Recreation Facility Infrastructure Standards
- Develop a Recreation Facility Strategy
- Meet several objectives of the Municipal Sport Strategy
The project will:
1. Establish municipal recreation facility infrastructure standards and its critical elements. These standards will be included in designs for major renovation or newly built municipal recreation facilities.
2. Create the Vision and Guiding Principles for the City of Ottawa's Recreation Facility Strategy
3. Learn about who is using City of Ottawa recreation facilities and barriers for users and non-users
4. Develop a Recreation Facility Strategy, consistent with growth in the City of Ottawa, that recommends renovation, repurposing, decommissioning or the development of new facilities.
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What would you suggest the City avoid in any future builds or major renovation designs? What elements of our Recreation Facilities do not work well? Please post your ideas and vote for the other suggestions you like the most.Some examples of facilities are multi-sport complexes, community centres, field houses and arenas. Within these facility types there are elements that vary between sites. For example, an element may be a parking area, pool, fitness facility, storage, canteen, arena, gymnasium or multi-purpose room.At this time, we are looking for your ideas on the physical structures and how they are laidContinue readingView All Ideasabout 1 month ago
shelving storage
Hello again Elizabeth.. shelving inside the room would be best as it is sometimes difficult to carry lots of heavy books. Perhaps there could be one or more walls which are a series of lockable cupboards. I think this is really important to support adult activities other than sports.
3 months ago
Varied/diverse facilities to encourage Ottawa-ans on the go
I'd be interested in facilities and classes that accommodate Ottawa residents' varied schedules, and maybe even encourage them to take up new sports. I've always thought stuff like yoga and parkour looked cool, but have either been to busy to take a class or haven't had facilities to try safely. Weight-training facilities are always a plus, too.
2 months ago
Too many parking spots
Less parking/more expensive would be better. - Self driving technology, if possible, won't need parking as badly - parking can interfere with things like bike lanes - parklets would be a better use, the visually appealing nature benefits human health - more expensive parking / less parking decreases societies dependence on cars, which is environmentally friendly. Even if one doesn't believe in global warming, smog can still happen obvious some parking must continue to exist Citations: i don't want to be flagged as spam for posting external links, so here's just 1: look up: "the high cost of free parking" by vox.
about 2 months ago
thank you Elizabeth. Lockable storage is missing
I have reviewed the proposed recreation standards and what is missing is Lockable storage for 10-20 banker boxes of books and additional material for each group. I belong to a number of interest groups which get together monthly and it is extremely difficult to find space where there is lockable storage available. As you can appreciate carrying everything to each meeting is very onerous.
about 2 months ago
More smaller centers
Many of us in the downtown core do not own a car. Rather than large centres in single locations, can we have more smaller centers that are accessible (Plant Bath is a good example)
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What would you suggest the City include in any future builds or major renovation designs? What building elements in our Recreation Facilities work well? Please post your ideas and vote for the other suggestions you like the most.
Some examples of facilities are multi-sport complexes, community centres, field houses and arenas. Within these facility types there are elements that vary between sites. For example, an element may be a parking area, pool, fitness facility, storage, canteen, arena, gymnasium or multi-purpose room.
At this time, we are looking for your ideas on the physical structures and howContinue reading
View All Ideas3 months ago
Free parking.
2 months ago
We need an indoor pool in the south end, either Greely or Manotick for those in the south of the city.
3 months ago
In need of a few multiple gym complex for basketball, participant #'s rising - lack of facilities to support the demands
3 months ago
Indoor and outdoor skateboard/bike/scooter facilities
These sports are growing exponentially (skateboarding will be at the Olympics in 2020). Often the space at the current parks is taken up by adults, and kids get little time to practice safely themselves without getting in the way. It would be great to see skate-infra built into every rec centre and park plan - to spread people out across the city and allow kids to practice in their neighbourhoods, rather than have to be driven to downtown parks or parks in Orleans, Nepean, and Kanata. A city-run indoor park would also be ideal.
3 months ago
Indoor playground for families
Young families (I.e. with a 2 year old) have a difficult time finding something as simple as a playground in the winter time away from the elements.
Who's listening
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Phone 613-580-2424, 27366 Email RCFS-PublicEngagement@ottawa.ca -
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