Sign over the front door of École élémentaire publique Louise-Arbour.
The city's latest plan for a mixed-use redevelopment in Little Italy saves Plouffe Park, to the relief of the local community association. But the group says other elements of the plan leave them disappointed.A new location for école élémentaire publique Louise-Arbour is now proposed to go beside a park in Ottawa's Little Italy, as opposed to over it.
This is the city's prior plan for the redevelopment project, with Somerset Street at the bottom of the map. It shows the school going on top of the space currently occupied by Plouffe Park. , the school would be located between Plouffe Park to the east and an extra one hectare of green space to the west.
The road would also demolish a basketball court the city installed a year ago that's "getting huge amount of use," Boucher said.Somerset Coun. Ariel Troster has spent hours discussing the project with local residents and school parents over the past months.Any lingering concerns can be addressed in the final detailed design, she added.
Local residents started a 'Save the Park' campaign when the city initially proposed to develop over the area taken up for decades by Plouffe Park. student and a member of the school council, said it's been "a long time coming to get to this point" and that other parents are also anxious to see the project finally move ahead."Most if not all of the parents students at our school also live in this community and ...
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