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A CBA is a legally binding agreement between project developers
and/or public institutions and a legally constituted coalition of community groups.
The use of, and interest in, CBAs continues to increase as more and more parties recognize that traditional approaches to developments often yields few long-term community benefits.
CBAs enable communities to play a meaningful role in the planning and execution of a development and establish governance and enforcement mechanisms to ensure the realization of benefit outcomes. CBAs also provide developers with a defined, transparent framework with which to achieve social benefit outcomes for the community.
When it comes to development projects that meet the needs
of all citizens, Ottawa punches below its weight.
When it comes to development projects that meet the needs of all citizens, Ottawa punches below its weight.
As communities in Ottawa, and elsewhere, are learning a CBA is the most effective way to get beyond the platitudes and rhetoric by ensuring measurable community benefit outcomes.
We can do right for all walks of life and we can do right for the memory of the once thriving LeBreton Flats community that was removed in the 1960s.
As communities in Ottawa, and elsewhere, are learning a CBA is the most effective way to get beyond the platitudes and rhetoric by ensuring measurable community benefit outcomes.
We can do right for all walks of life and we can do right for the memory of the once thriving LeBreton Flats community that was removed in the 1960s.
We are a coalition of 21 community, service and labour groups with a shared vision of a CBA being put in place to ensure the community is kept top of mind with the development of LeBreton Flats.
Our focus is on everything from affordable housing, decent work and wages and job training, to social procurement, meeting the needs of our indigenous citizens, health services, recreation, accessibility and sustainable energy.
The Coalition offers the NCC an effective and efficient platform to:
We formed the LeBreton Flats Community Benefits Coalition to help create an urban neighbourhood that is vibrant, equitable, healthy, secure and supportive of all residents.
Check out our – Statement of Principles
I am very encouraged to see residents advocate for a Community Benefits Agreement for Lebreton Flats and I fully support these efforts. It is crucial that the social and economic benefits from the development of public lands are shared across the entire community. A CBA will ensure that families living on lower incomes will have access to the same employment opportunities, day care, housing and other positive amenities that everyone else benefits from in a new neighbourhood.
Lebreton Flats was once a residential neighborhood, but it was expropriated and leveled by the federal government. The redevelopment of this land must take place with the interests of the community in mind—not just big developers. Community organizations across the city have come together behind the vision of a Community Benefits Agreement, and decision-makers should take this coalition seriously.
Half a century ago, the federal government razed a vibrant, working class neighbourhood in the heart of Ottawa. It is an enduring shame on our city. Any development at Lebreton Flats should be focused on providing benefits to the working and low-income people of Ottawa, and on the first peoples upon whose land development is to take place.
I am very encouraged to see residents advocate for a Community Benefits Agreement for Lebreton Flats and I fully support these efforts. It is crucial that the social and economic benefits from the development of public lands are shared across the entire community. A CBA will ensure that families living on lower incomes will have access to the same employment opportunities, day care, housing and other positive amenities that everyone else benefits from in a new neighbourhood.
Lebreton Flats was once a residential neighborhood, but it was expropriated and leveled by the federal government. The redevelopment of this land must take place with the interests of the community in mind—not just big developers. Community organizations across the city have come together behind the vision of a Community Benefits Agreement, and decision-makers should take this coalition seriously.
Half a century ago, the federal government razed a vibrant, working class neighbourhood in the heart of Ottawa. It is an enduring shame on our city. Any development at Lebreton Flats should be focused on providing benefits to the working and low-income people of Ottawa, and on the first peoples upon whose land development is to take place.
I am very encouraged to see residents advocate for a Community Benefits Agreement for Lebreton Flats and I fully support these efforts. It is crucial that the social and economic benefits from the development of public lands are shared across the entire community. A CBA will ensure that families living on lower incomes will have access to the same employment opportunities, day care, housing and other positive amenities that everyone else benefits from in a new neighbourhood.
Lebreton Flats was once a residential neighborhood, but it was expropriated and leveled by the federal government. The redevelopment of this land must take place with the interests of the community in mind—not just big developers. Community organizations across the city have come together behind the vision of a Community Benefits Agreement, and decision-makers should take this coalition seriously.
Half a century ago, the federal government razed a vibrant, working class neighbourhood in the heart of Ottawa. It is an enduring shame on our city. Any development at Lebreton Flats should be focused on providing benefits to the working and low-income people of Ottawa, and on the first peoples upon whose land development is to take place.
