Lots of Links

Here are some links to information about the Lansdowne Partnership Plan that relate to our community park:

• Guiding Principles for Design Competition
• Lansdowne Timeline
• Slides from the Design Symposium. The 3rd to last slide 'Overlap Area' is very interesting. It shows how the Commercial development is really what dominates the site.
• An Ottawa Citizen article by Maria Cook on the Request for Proposals (RFP)
• and the actual RFP for those who really want to dig in.
  

From the RFP, here is the key text regarding the community park:

Sylvia Holden Community Park
Sylvia Holden Park is currently separated from the Primary Competition Area by a chain-link fence. Design solutions are to integrate the existing park with the new urban park design.
The facilities in the existing park are important to the local community. Design solutions may propose to redesign the existing community park; however, must also ensure that the park amenities are not lost. Therefore if redesigned, the primary community facilities must be integrated into the new urban park and must remain fully community accessible at all times.
Currently, the primary community facilities in Sylvia Holden Park include two baseball diamonds, a basketball court, a splash pad, a play structure, outdoor rinks, an informal sports field and a small wadding pool and a park support building. If any of the current facilities are relocated to a new area, the new facilities must be in place before the existing ones are decommissioned.