Lake Ontario Park: Previous Activities

Below is an archive of earlier reports on efforts to develop a vision for the future of Lake Ontario Park.

VISION WORKSHOP #1

The first of two stakeholder-group workshops was held on February 23, 2006.

This meeting was attended by approximately 25 representatives of groups that included nearby property owners and organizations with an interest in future of the park.

Jennifer McKendry, a local historian living in Portsmouth Village, was commissioned by Carl Bray & Associates to compile a chronology of the park. She provided a fascinating overview of the history of the Lake Ontario Park area. (You can read a chronology summary of that research online. The full document is available from project planners by contacting lopvision@cityofkingston.ca.)

The stakeholder group brainstormed to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the park. The group then broke up into four sub-groups and used park maps to share knowledge of the park and to identify what works and does not work in the park, what is unique to the park, and to note important linkages to and from the park.

Those at the workshop included individuals from the Portsmouth Village Association (3), Ontario Realty Corporation (1), PCC Mental Health Services (1), Commodores Cove (1), Kiwanis Club(1), Providence Continuing Care Centre(1), Urban Aboriginal Community Alliance (1), Chamber of Commerce (1), Friends of Lake Ontario Park (3) 1000 King Street West (2), St Lawrence College (1), District Councillor Beth Pater, and Councillor Floyd Patterson, as well as a number of City Recreation and Culture staff. Representatives from KEDCO and the Cataraqui Golf Course were invited but unable to attend.

Minutes of the February 23 workshop can be downloaded using the link above.

Results of the meeting are intended to be shared with the membership of the representing groups for input at a follow-up workshop. That workshop (tentatively scheduled for April 20) will discuss input from the stakeholders and turn the ideas into design principles. These design principles will form the basis for the development of conceptual plans for the Lake Ontario Park to be delivered in an open-house-type presentation on-site sometime in the summer.

VISION WORKSHOP #2

At the end of Workshop #1, the representatives from each of the stakeholder groups were to go back to their groups and inform them of the proposed LOP Visioning process and get feedback from them on their collective thoughts on the strengths , weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the park.

At the beginning of Workshop #2, each stakeholder group representative indicated to the overall committee the feedback from their groups. The overall group was broken into four subgroups. Each subgroup took markers and indicated on park plans where important features, views and areas were on the park and outlined roughly where new and/or relocated activities/functions might occur. Each group presented their visions of the park.

Minutes of the April 9 workshop can be downloaded using the link above.

WORKSHOP #3 & OPEN HOUSE

At the last meeting of the Lake Ontario Park Revitalization Staff Advisory Group, held May 25, the committee reviewed ideas presented so far and considered a plan to get assistance from visiting landscape architects on special and technical requirements associated with many of the ideas.

The Advisory Group hosted an open house June 23 to get public feedback on conceptual plans for Lake Ontario Park. Citizens were encouraged to complete a survey about future uses of Lake Ontario Park.

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