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Village of Manotick – Municipal Servicing, Functional Design, Phasing Plan, Detail Design and Approvals Through the late 1990s, the former Township of Rideau had a “Manotick Servicing Options Study” carried out to evaluate alternatives for providing municipal servicing to the Village of Manotick. A revised “Secondary Plan” was prepared for the Village of Manotick that the City adopted into the City’s official plan following amalgamation. The City of Ottawa’s official plan indicates that Manotick will be connected to central servicing in the future. The City of Ottawa’s Planning and Growth Management department completed a study in 2003 entitled the “Village of Manotick Servicing Master Plan and Trunk Services Concept” The report identified, on a conceptual basis, the sanitary sewer requirements and the water distribution requirements to provide municipal servicing to the existing Village of Manotick as well as to allow for future development of the village in accordance with the City’s official plan. From the conceptual plan, it is envisioned that servicing will occur in phases. In June/July 2005, the City of Ottawa Planning and Environmental Services Committee approved and recommended to Council the following action plan for the provision of central wastewater services to the Village of Manotick:
Through a competitive process, the City selected a consulting engineering design team spearheaded by J.L. Richards & Associates Limited to carry out the action plan as directed by Council and Committee. The scope of the project was to complete the design of a pump station and trunk sanitary sewer system to connect Manotick to central servicing, with capacity for the entire village, including future development as described in the official plan. As the intent was for the City to front-end the full cost of the project and then recover costs directly from owners of property benefiting from the proposed sewers, it was identified that the project could not move past the design stage without first gaining majority approval from the affected property owners, in the areas generally known as Hillside Gardens and the Core, through a local improvement petition process. To keep the community up to date on the project, information sessions were held for the residents/owners of Hillside Gardens and the Core on June 28 and June 29, 2006. Further background information can be found at: Through the summer and fall of 2006, the design team conducted investigative and preliminary design work to meet the goal of completing the preliminary design and providing cost estimates to the affected property owners by the fall of 2006 in advance of the petitions. On December 12 and 13, 2006, information sessions were held for the property owners of the Hillside Gardens and the Core (respectively) to present the preliminary designs and local improvement information and costs. The presentations from the information sessions can be found by following the links in the left column of this web page. A petition in support of the proposed sanitary sewer work as a local improvement was circulated to the Core Area by a lead petitioner from that community in March 2007 and a similar petition was circulated to the Hillside Gardens Area by a separate lead petitioner in July 2007. Each of the affected property owners was sent an information package in advance with not only general information on the local improvement process, but also estimates of the associated charges that the City will be levying for recovery of project costs. The Core Area petition was certified as sufficient per the requirements of Ontario Regulation 586/06 on October 12, 2007 and the Hillside Gardens Area petition was certified sufficient on October 16, 2007. Public notice of the proposed project and the related staff recommendations' report was provided in advance of the project's review by committee and council via a Notice of Intent for each of the two priority servicing areas in the Village of Manotick; each notice was mailed to the affected property owners and published in local newspapers in advance of the committee meeting. The report recommending that the City approve a local improvement bylaw to undertake the installation of sanitary sewers for each of the Core Area and the Hillside Gardens Area was reviewed and approved by the Agricultural and Rural Affairs Committee (ARAC) at its March 31, 2008 meeting; City Council gave its approval on April 23, 2008. The local improvement bylaws 2008-160 and 2008-161 were enacted and passed on May 14, 2008. The project continues to move forward according to the schedule, with the first phase of construction expected to start before the end of 2008. For further information, please contact: Luc Marineau, P.Eng. |
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