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KBCA last general meeting of the year (just before the Christmas Party**) will be a time-saver Special General Meeting on 3 December at 7 pm at the Beaverbrook Community Centre (2 Beaverbrook Rd.).  This short meeting is an opportunity to review recent success and prepare for the New Year.

Agenda:

  1. Councilor Marianne Wilkinson will present a brief summary of the outcomes on #2 The Parkway with short q&a  City Staff expected to attend.
  2. house-keeping motion: That KBCA ask the membership, at a special General Meeting to approve the spending of up to $12,000 from the Reserve Fund for legal and planning costs as required.  
  3. preparations for next year's February AGM, nominations, plan to honour those who served/donated, enhanced the community
  4. winter schedule of KBCA events/activities

**(This meeting takes place after the Traveling Village Dinner on December 1 -- and before the Christmas Party on December 5.

 

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You’re invited

Saturday December 1st, 2012

6:00 P.M.

One of a few garden cities in the world, award-winning Beaverbrook is a system of parks, walkways, soft pedestrian lighting, curving streets, rock out-croppings and randomly planted trees. Families of all ages live here together.  But times change.  No longer are the supermarket, shops and post office the natural meeting places.  So we need to find new ways to connect with each other in order to keep the community strong.  That’s why we created the Beaverbrook Travelling Village Dinner.  And you asked us to do it again. 

Urban planning with a vision.  Let’s celebrate and plan to stay ahead.  Let’s keep Beaverbrook at the cutting edge of urban planning where human scale is respected and knowing your neighbors matters .      

Let’s keep talking.  More than ever before we need to talk to our neighbours and to get to know each other.   We  need to say hello next-door and across Beaverbrook to people you’d normally never encounter.  It is great to meet up with each other.  You know, be neighbourly, make a friend and build the community.   

Count yourself in (and pass along the invitation to your friends and neighbors) .... by calling me, Eileen Howell, (Director of the  Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association) at 613 592 8754.  Or email me before November 17th at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to confirm your participation.  Scheduling is made easier if you can do anything that is needed be it the appetizer, main or dessert course.  But please let me know what you decide.    

I’ll sign you up to host one of three courses and send you detailed instructions about your commitment and your personalized evening’s itinerary.  Just like last year, you’ll host one course for 6 people at your home (or at the Mlacak Centre for appetizer hosts).  In return, you’ll spend the evening travelling to different homes in Beaverbrook with different people for each of the other two courses to share food, drink and conversation.  By the end of the evening a lot of people who live, practically just around the corner, will no longer be strangers to you.  This year, we’ll all be together for appetizers, not for dessert as was the case last year.

How does the travelling dinner work?

The travelling dinner is similar to,  but different from a progressive dinner, so please read on.
 
First step:  Notify Eileen that you want to participate.   Tell her which course your will do for 6 people and say your 2nd and 3rd choice too in case she needs more flexibility.  Eileen will collect the names, assign the guests and give each household a personalized itinerary.  
 
Appetizers:  Designated couples will  arrive at the Mlacak centre with a plate of appetizers for 6 to serve to people as they arrive 6.00 p.m.  Those not designated to provide appetizers will arrive at the Mlacak Centre at 6:00 or soon after. All will leave the Mlacak centre at 7:15.
 
Main Course:  Each household will follow their personal itinerary to the Main Course host’s home, to arrive at 7.30.  Because the main course host has been at the Mlacak Centre for appetizers, the main course will need to  be something that has been prepared in advance, with a table ready to sit-down to (or trays if you prefer a buffet main course).  Main courses need not be complicated.  The goal is to enjoy the evening.  (Martha Stewart has not been invited.)  A period of one and a half hours will be allocated for the main course.
 
Dessert:  All will leave their main course host’s home to arrive at the dessert host's home by 9:15
 
Do not worry about the mechanics.  You’ll love it.   Once Eileen has your name, email, phone number, address and your choice of course (1st, 2nd and 3rd) that you will be responsible for, you will receive a schedule as to where to go.    This will be published just before the dinner on December 1st. as there are always last minute changes due to illness etc..... 
 
Allergies and special diets:  The hosts will not have time to accommodate special diets.  They will not know who their guests are till just before the event.  If you need a special diet, please plan accordingly.
 

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We want your involvement in your Beaverbrook Community Association; We will help you to champion a community activity you believe in!

We are seeking your opinion and your help to implement initiatives that you believe will make Beaverbrook a better community. Please take a few moments to fill out our quick survey (on the menu to the left).  Your input will be valuable to shaping our community!

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Please join us and meet your neighbours at a short KBCA meeting Wednesday 14 November at 7:00 p.m. KBCA Centre 2 Beaverbrook Road. Please reserve the date.  Gary

Programme

·        Local Neighbourhood Connections  (City Hall briefing)

·        Briefing/update  on 1131 and #2 The Parkway and Town Plan outlook

·        Traveling Village Dinner (see beaverbrookcommunity.ca)

·        Winter Programme – Skating

Open Business Meeting

·        Quarterly Financial Statements

·        Memberships Canvass

·        Community Survey (see beaverbrookcommunity.ca)

·        Nominations Committee

·        New KBCA online media

·        Select Date for Christmas Meeting and AGM

 

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Dear KBCA members, donors and residents:

Thank you, for your important involvement and generous donations!

Please join us Monday April 30th, 2012 from 6:30 to 9:30 at the Mlacak Centre in Hall ‘C’, 2500 Campeau Drive, when the Developer assisted by City Planning will show you his revised proposal for #2 The Parkway.

They will tell you how they justify changing the existing zoning of #2 The Parkway from Minor Institutional to Residential High Density, converting public-use lands into two residential towers on top of 17 townhouses.

To save time you could choose to read only the developer’s Planning Rationale at:

Planning Rationale.pdf

Or check the Concept Plan at:

Concept Plan.pdf

This will be the first time our community will see the new proposal. This latest proposal replaces their earlier proposal for a 16-storey high rise building.  It offers about the same number of units, now in 9 storeys, or a total of 10 storeys (a top level for mechanical and amenities and much bigger footprint). In summary, they are proposing to install a tower between five times and almost ten times the height of nearby single homes in Beaverbrook.  Resident parking is underground; visitor parking at grade.

Many in Beaverbrook are concerned. Together we wrote hundreds of letters and reports on the first proposal.  Please join us at this meeting.  Ask the developer and the City to answer your questions and concerns.  This is your main chance, to say, and explain whether and why this second proposal is also out of scale with the neighbourhood character.  If you want the City to Keep to The Plan, you can urge that these types of development be permitted only in the Kanata Town Centre.

KBCA is committed to saving Kanata from bad planning.  We have been advised this proposal sets out precedents leading to many more high-rises at choice Kanata Beaverbrook sites.  Your continuing support, involvement and donations are vital.

Your donations ensure KBCA can pay for qualified lawyers and experts to defend our award-winning model city planned by Bill Teron.  Please donate using the PayPal feature or by cheque payable to KBCA.   Please continue to give generously.

Let's Keep to the Plan!  See you, on April 30 at 6:30 p.m.!

Gary Sealey, President

Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association