Congratulations to Ottawa and welcome back to the CFL
City council voted 15 to 9 to pass Lansdowne Live, now they can build the new stadium
Now its time for Hamilton city council to get on with the New Stadium!!!!!
Fantastic and looking forward to seeing a team from Ottawa back in the CFL. :thup:
Wow first my wishes are granted for the improved NFL rules on player safety for blows to the head, then the CFL elimination of the NFL revolving door, and now this? Next finally they figure things out in Southern Ontario? And the CFL season starts in TWO DAYS! :rockin:
And then what to make things even better by the time I move to Florida later this summer?
Good to see some positive news like this given all the crap we have going on down here. 
(i.e. the oil spill with approaching hurricane season, increasing unemployment, no national health insurance yet unless you are 65 or older or a kid, a Great Pretender who wouldn't know kickin' butt from finding his own for a president, looming ugly NFL lockout next year [see thread in "Other Leagues" for how ugly things are about it], and so on).
Well Bob now has Option to get now
if The City of Hamilton Flakes on Bob He can always sell the Team to The Ottawa Owners and get out ..
I hope they find way to fix Things so we have Hamilton
Congrats to Ottawa I hope it works this time (IMO Ottawa won't work It been tried Twice)
welcome back Ottawa Hope you Prove me Wrong.
But what about parking?
A huge underground parking lot is going to be built, busses on Bank Street, busses allowed for the first time on Queen Elizabeth driveway on game day, shuttle busses to Carleton U - 1km away. The stadium is central so a lot can walk to it too.
http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=326032
The ownership group, Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group
(OSEG)includes developers...just like Asper is in Winnipeg...
They are going to renovate Frank Clair Stadium will be renovated
and a 350,000 sq. ft of commercial retail space will be built there.
and 250 housing units, as well as developing
an urban park on the stadium's front lawn.
The stadium`s total cost will be $290 million.
Taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $173 million,
and the developers $117 million on the project.
The stadium will be rent-free to developers for 30 years.
[url=http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Lansdowne+Park+plan+passes/3213128/story.html]http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/L ... story.html[/url]-After almost three years of contentious debate,
passionate public consultation and mountains of documents
— and a 12-hour special city council meeting Monday
— a majority of councillors voted in favour of going forward
with the redevelopment plans for Lansdowne Park.
Lansdowne approval leaves 'divided community'
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 CBC News
[url=http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/06/29/ottawa-lansdowne-vote-decision-redevelopment.html?ref=rss]http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2 ... ml?ref=rss[/url]Gilbert Russell, chair of the Lansdowne Park committee for the Glebe Business Improvement Area, said he didn't
feel council addressed citizens' concerns about the deal, despite the 13 hours of discussion before the vote.
"Most of the time was spent making sure that the needs of the developers were met," he said.
"So concerns we have with size, the mix…the traffic issues, the parking issues — those weren't addressed."
Councillor Diane Deans,who had similar concerns voted against the plan Monday night
..[b] also said there is no doubt the deal will continue to face challenges in the future,
such as legal challenges, Ontario municipal board challenges, and zoning and site plan amendments.
[/b]
"And I do think that it will depend on a lot of the decisions
that are yet to come how ultimately successful this plan will be."
Lansdowne: The right decision, the wrong way
Plan opponents did no one proud with time-wasting
By Randall Denley, The Ottawa Citizen June 29, 2010 7:23 AM
[url=http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Lansdowne+right+decision+wrong/3213188/story.html]http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Lansd ... story.html[/url]The best shot for the nine councillors opposed to the Lansdowne deal was
to defer a decision until after October’s election.
Councillor Alex Cullen led the charge there.
One has to admit a certain attraction to delaying major matters until Cullen is not on council,
but this was a last desperate act of a councillor who hasn’t been able to persuade the public
that there are good reasons to reject the deal. I guess all citys have councillors like this. Sam Merulla?
Really cool news. Looking forward to seeing a well-runned franchise in Ottawa. Looking good.
[i]So concerns we have with size, the mix…the traffic issues, the parking issues — those weren't addressed."
Councillor Diane Deans,who had similar concerns voted against the plan Monday night
.. also said there is no doubt the deal will continue to face challenges in the future,
such as legal challenges, Ontario municipal board challenges, and zoning and site plan amendments.
"And I do think that it will depend on a lot of the decisions that are yet to come how ultimately successful this plan will be."[/i]
Of course that is not unique, any development in any city undergoes this type of scrutiny and challenges, legal or otherwise.