La Croisée Community Association
For neighbours in the La Croisée Community of Gatineau, Québec
Potential development of 65 rue de la Croisee.
Document : Comité consultatif d’urbanisme 341e séance – 25 mars 2024 (Analyse de projet)
Phase 1B progresses:
Document: Analyse de projet – Comité consultatif d’urbanisme – 1er février 2022
Six new homes (approximate location)
New Police Station – to come:
The new Primary School 037 has started construction…
Phase 1A is progressing…
Last December, Richcraft provided an overview of their preliminary La Croisée Master Plan to members of the La Croisée Community Association. This extraordinary offering was gratefully appreciated by all who attended.
In the short-term plan, soon the golf course may be expanded in the eastern sector. There will also be a new primary school for 650 children at the end to rue du Golf and a new high-density, rental apartment development on rue de la Croisée.
Impasse du Tertre
The future Impasse du Tertre is in the current woodland adjacent to the Aylmer Police station located between rue de la Croisée and chemin d’Aylmer.
Preliminary planning concepts include between 100 and 140 rental housing units sub-divided into several 2 story, flat roofed buildings. The exit/entrance to this complex will on rue de la Croisée. The access to public transportation on Chemin d’Aylmer will remain similar in one form or another. This development may soon be submitted to the City for approval.
The purpose of this survey is to gather a reflection of thoughts and consensus amongst neighbours in La Croisée regarding this future development of Impasse du Tertre. The survey link is below and, thank you, for taking just a few minutes for this.
The early planning process for a new Master Development Plan of the La Croisée Community has begun. This plan will bring new investment and significant expansion. Understandably, there are many interests and responsibilities involved, such as those of the landowner, the Golf Club, the builders, design engineers, school boards, the Province and the Municipality.
The La Croisée Community Association believes the current residents of the La Croisée Community should also be identified as “stakeholders” in the future.
The legitimacy of residents as “stakeholders” lies in the project management guidelines recognized worldwide in the definition, – as people who have an impact and can affect a project and – can also be affected by a project.
“Stakeholder. An individual, group or organization that may affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a decision, activity, or outcome of a project, program or portfolio.”
PMBOK GUIDE, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Global Standard Sixth Edition, page 723
“Stakeholder Engagement” is now of increasing importance to the profession as a matter of trust and success.
“The community itself is a third partner: ….. Most importantly, when involved in planning and design, community members bring valuable ideas and knowledge about what will work for them. Strategies that address the needs and roles of developers, local governments and citizens in overcoming key challenges will be most effective at moving the market and local communities toward sustainable outcomes.”
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) , “Sustainable Neighbourhood Development: Practical Solutions to Common Challenges.
Yet, despite stakeholder legitimacy there is a tendency to dispense with the “inconvenience” of discovering the collective will, desires and possibilities known by the people who actually live in the community. Therefore, our Community Association will be pro-active to help avoid the presentation of plans in the typical “for you, without you” scenario when it’s too late.
Fortunately, our stakeholder partners have agreed to an early welcome of the concerns, ideas and visions of our residents. However, the Association cannot respond without consensus or presenting the views of all our members as part of this common agenda framework.
Neighbours will soon be welcomed to further community surveys, presentations and upcoming initiatives in 2021.
Our goal is that co-operation and collaboration will continue in a positive, transparent and open manner to help us reach better, shared and preferred outcomes for our community future.
Thank you, for participating in this extraordinary time.
Eventually, we will be getting new neighbours in the west end, just north of Provigo. This is Phase 1a of the expansion of La Croisée.
The following was outlined in the Project Analysis produced by the City of Gatineau Planning Advisory Committee received from our Councillor Mike Duggan on June 6th, 2019:
“The proposal for Phase 1 of the La Croisée project aims to offer a variety of typologies of dwellings for a total of 236 dwellings distributed according to different typologies and building templates, ranging from multi-single detached dwelling houses. The proposed typologies are available in 35 dwellings single family homes, 34 semi-detached single family dwellings, 10 single-family dwellings and 157 multi-family dwellings (two isolated buildings of six dwellings, one isolated building of eight dwellings, one isolated building of 11 dwellings as well as nine buildings in twinned structure of 14 dwellings) (annexes 4 and 6).”
Planning Advisory Committee – 260th Meeting December 10,2018 -Project Analysis, Implantation, Architecture of Buildings and Facilities (p.1)
A new high school is also going in the area and the timeline for the neighbourhood development will likely follow that construction, very soon.
The Project Analysis made December 10, 2018 by the Comité consultatif d’urbanisme – Ville de Gatineau is available below. Note: The translation, by the La Croisée Community Association, is an unofficial version of the original document.
Verbal records pertaining to this component of the meeting are also available below.
