The First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa
Campus Planning - Members' Page
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Site Plan Update - May 2025 Town Halls
On May 6, 2025, FirstU held a Town Hall to provide an overview to the proposed Updated Site Plan to be submitted to the City of Ottawa later that month.
On May 12, 2025, a follow-up Town Hall was held to provide Congregants with an opportunity to bring their questions and final feedback on the proposed Site Plan.
You can watch the recordings of both Tow Halls below.
ONLINE TOWN HALL: MASTER CONCEPT PLAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13 - 7PM - ON ZOOM
On February 8 and 13, 2023, the FirstU Board and Campus Planning Committee hosted Town Hall meetings to review the Master Concept Plan for our Campus development.
Also attending were representatives of our development partners: Theia Partners, Figurr Architects, Cahdco and Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services. Here, you can review a recording of the February 13 meeting, or the presentation document itself.
You can watch a replay of the Town Hall by hitting play on the YouTube video embedded to the right.
Click the button below to download a PDF of the Master Concept Plan. If the file is too large for you to download, please contact the office at uuoffice@firstunitarianottawa.ca to pick up or have mailed a copy.
FIRSTU TOWN HALL ON CAMPUS PLANNING
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2022
On October 26th, 2022, the FirstU Board and Campus Planning Committee hosted a Town Hall meeting to describe the progress in Campus Planning made since our Annual General Meeting in May 2022. Here, you can review a recording of the meeting, or the presentation document itself.
Learn about our site visit to a local site in Peterborough, the Integrated Campus Task Force activities, the Design Charette, the upcoming Master Concept Plan, and more!
You can watch a replay of the townhall by hitting play on the YouTube video embedded to the right.
To review the presentation documents, use the green button (below) to open the "FirstU Town Hall on Campus Planning" slideshow presentation in your browser. You can then click "Slideshow", in the upper-right corner of your screen, to view it as a slideshow.
"Odayanhaway" Mean "Little Village"
To the FirstU Congregation, and members of our campus partners,
On behalf of the FirstU Board and the Campus Planning Committee, it brings me great joy to present the proposed Master Concept Plan (MCP) delivered by our campus development partners.
The documents above describe the goals and process which guided us this far, the proposed site plan, and generated illustrations of our future campus, our "little village". A great deal of effort has gone into this plan, and we hope you are as excited about its contents as those that previewed it: the FirstU Board, the Campus Planning Committee and the Integrated Campus Plan Task Force.
Please bear in mind this vision for the campus is inspirational, but not necessarily final. For example, the appearance of the two new buildings is still very much an early architectural draft. Also please note that the exact locations of the two new buildings are still subject to further discussion with the City Planning department. There is also some room for minor changes to:
- the locations of pathways and parking
- the size and locations of campus amenities such as the Gathering Space
- the content of the "FirstU backyard" (behind 30 Cleary)
You likely have questions and concerns. To hear these, we are planning to host several Town Halls for the congregation and our campus partners (see above sections for video recordings of these Town Halls). We expect to have discussions with other neighbours upon congregational approval of this plan. Comments and questions can be sent before or after these Town Halls to me and to Terry K. See the upcoming eUUs for meeting details.
Your opinion matters. Congregational approval of this Master Concept Plan is anticipated at a Special Congregational Meeting (likely in March), separate from the Town Halls and from our Annual General Meeting. The approval process is itself complicated, and will be discussed at the Town Halls.
Finally I hope that this message finds you well, and I wish you health and happiness for 2023.
Sincerely,
Brent Nicolle
President, First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa
Campus Planning Proposal
The Board and Campus Planning have received and are in support of a proposal from Cahdco and Theia to undertake a master concept plan for the campus. This proposal will be the subject of a motion at FirstU's 2022 Annual General Meeting Continuation on May 15, 2022.
On April 19, 2022 the FirstU Ottawa Board and Campus Planning Committee held a Town Hall to discuss the FirstU Development Proposal. Click HERE to watch the Town Hall on YouTube.