On May 25th, 2025 we held our Annual General Meeting at the Plant Recreation Centre. This year’s meeting featured a full agenda which included topics ranging from the disconcerting (umm, don’t ask what’s under Nepean Bay) to the existential (where exactly is the Dalhousie in Dalhousie Community Association?). If there is one thing we can say for… Read more: 2025 AGM recap

Early this past summer, Laura Mueller, Chief of Development Implementation for the National Capital Commission, attended the DCA’s regular monthly meeting in June and provided an update on the “Building LeBreton” project and the NCC’s application to the city for approval of the project’s draft Plan of Subdivision. In September, we learned that the National… Read more: Building LeBreton

Saturday, September 28 was a beautiful day for the Sweet Willow Garden with about 40 neighbourhood volunteers joining us to help construct and fill 20 large steel beds. The steel beds came in four pieces, so we needed to move each to its designated location,assemble it, and bolt the pieces together. Folks jumped into the… Read more: Sweet Willow Garden build day a success!

Rochester Street’s Sweet Willow Garden will be back in action in spring 2025 thanks to funding from Just Food and the hard work of the DCA’s Public Realm Committee. 31 Rochester Street was the home of the Sweet Willow Garden for approximately two decades, where it sat atop a CMHC demonstration underground heating plant built… Read more: Sweet Willow Garden to reopen in spring 2025

The City of Ottawa has posted its “final” concept plan for 1010 Somerset Street – the area west of the Plant Recreation Centre and Plouffe Park border extending to the pathway next to the O-Train (LRT) tracks: https://engage.ottawa.ca/1010-somerset Plouffe Park has been preserved and space in the 1010 development site has been allocated for a… Read more: 1010 Somerset Street development plan

On May 25 we held our Annual General Meeting at the Plant Recreation Centre, which brought together approximately 40 members and ten guests to celebrate our 40 years as an association and reflect on how our neighbourhood has changed since the DCA was first formed by a group of neighbours in 1984.  Catherine Boucher, current president, kicked off the meeting with a warm… Read more: 2024 AGM recap: DCA turns 40!

This year’s Annual General Meeting was held on May 14 at Plant Recreation Centre. To kick off our meeting we invited three experts to ask them three important questions: How tall is tall? How affordable is affordable? How green is green? Our panel was moderated by Catherine McKenney, Councillor for Somerset Ward and consisted of… Read more: 2022 AGM recap