Recreation Facility Infrastructure Standards and Strategy
Consultation has concluded
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 Ideas3 months ago
More badminton facilities
A lot more badminton courts would be nice. It's something that can't be played outdoors/in parks/on school yards, and is cheap to set up and maintain. All you need is a net and court markings. With it being a sport for 2-4 players, it also allows families or small group of friends or a couple to go be active without having to organize teams or leagues. It's also very affordable unlike other sports. A cheap raquet and birdie is all that is needed.
3 months ago
50m pool swimming is non-existent in our Capital City in the summer time.
Ottawa's only municipal 50m pool is not available for 50m lap / training swimming from may 1st to Sept. 15. This is absurd!
4 months ago
Too many baseball diamonds and not enough soccer fields.
3 months ago
meeting rooms
A meeting room or rooms which can hold up to 80 with a series of closets along the walls. Each interest group wishing to hold their monthly meetings would be assigned a lockable closet to hold the library of books and other equipment belonging to the group.
4 months ago
Facility design and requirements are too focused on team sports
Soccer, tennis, basketball, and hockey are great, but many people prefer cultivating individual sports such as track and field, dance, yoga, parkour, gymnastics, or martial arts. It is difficult to find safe, open spaces (even just an outdoor track or an empty room somewhere) to practice these sports by yourself and not in a class. When you can't find space for the sports you want to do, it's frustrating to see so many group sports facilities (rinks, pitches, etc.) that sit empty when not used by teams. Please take this into consideration when designing new facilities, and leave some open spaces for people who like to move but don't play on a team.
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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
Year Round Facilities for Ice Sports in South Rural Ottawa
All ice sports scramble for ice during the Off Season from April to September. Limited ice availability as facilities close for maintenance and the Spring/Summer months means training time is limited to our athletes. Aging ice surfaces have many issues including additional repairs required, added costs to keep the ice at appropriate quality and sound quality issues at some facilities. Ice rentals costs are also of concern to our group as ice fees increase we need to charge more for our programming which limits who can afford to register our programs.
4 months ago
Frank Ryan Park is desperate for a Field House/Community Centre.
The current building is quite old. There are so many new young families moving into the neighbourhood and it would be so well used.
4 months ago
Better publicity of resources that ARE available. Map of wading pools and hours? What else is out there? Target comms to know what th've got
4 months ago
obstacle course type apparatuses
Make obstacle course race type apparatuses....rings to swing on, rope climbs, long monkey bars or rig structures with grip features like rings/pipes/t-bars. 6/7/8 foot walls and Irish tables to climb over. Tree stump mazes to manouevre through...up/down and side to side. No sport is like OCR which encourages speed, power, endurance, agility, grip strength and technical skill. If you want to promote physical fitness and overall health, these types of structures appeal to children, teens and adults and work on so many muscle groups while actually having FUN too. If you want more examples/pictures, just PM me back. Go to any playground now and you don't see a lot of kids using the structures as they are designed to be used...instead they are climbing/hanging/swinging like apes and trying to stay as high off the ground as they can (including me! :) The nice thing about these is that they are accessible by the public any time of the day for many months of the year in Ottawa.... with no booking or fees necessary. THAT is what makes a great option for the city as far as accessibility is concerned! You also wouldn't need tons of land to make them happen. And if you make them high enough off the snow/ground then many WOULD be used year round. Take a look at the structures you can find on beaches in California like Santa Monica where they even have long ring swings and huge rope climbs.
4 months ago
Indoor Velodrome and gymnasium facility
Ottawa is home to Canada's largest cycling club, yet we have no velodrome. A shared multi-use facility could benefit not only cyclists but also participants of indoor sports like basketball, tennis and volleyball.
Who's listening
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Phone 613-580-2424, 27366 Email RCFS-PublicEngagement@ottawa.ca -
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