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Fisher Heights & Area Community Association

About

Our Association

The Fisher Heights and Area Community Association (FHACA) is run by volunteers who dedicate time and energy to making our beautiful neighbourhoods even better places to live.  More specifically:

  • FHACA organizes a variety of community events every year, including seasonal family parties, rummage and yard sales, and  a spring clean-up of our neighbourhood parks.
  • FHACA is responsible for administering the day-to-day operation of  the city-owned Fisher Heights Community Place at 31 Sutton Place.  Every winter, the Association operates and maintains the outdoor skating rink on the lawns behind the community building.
  • FHACA sponsors a number of community programs that are open to all members of the community, including Yoga Partners, an Arts and Crafts Circle, and a Bridge Club.  A city-run Fitness Program for people 50 and older also operates in the building. FHACA is also an enthusiastic supporter of less frequent or formal community events, such as street parties, and winter carnivals.
  • FHACA is an important point of contact for city staff and councillors, and is in frequent contact and consultation with Ward 9 City Councillor about development and programming issues which affect our neighbourhoods.
  • FHACA publishes this website, as well as a newsletter which is delivered by volunteers, five times a year, to 1,400 homes throughout the neighbourhood.
In transition
Built mostly in the 1950-1970’s, it’s a beautiful area filled with quiet residential streets, well-cared for detached and semi detached bungalows and two story homes, town homes and apartment buildings, and small parks and playgrounds tucked in peacefully between the busy shopping plazas of Merivale Road and the bus routes and major arteries that can quickly get you downtown or out of town.
Sustainable Transportation

Cycling

Ottawa’s cycling network is easily accessible: The Nepean Trail goes right through the neighbourhood and the NCC pathways on the Experimental Farm and along the historic UNESCO heritage site Rideau Canal and the Rideau river. We are a stone’s throw away as are the impressive Hog’s Back Falls.

Baseline Ave is set to add a rapid bus corridor connecting to the LRT system. The corridor will also see separate cycling infrastructure and safe protected Dutch style intersections. Downtown can be reached by bicycle, in under 30 minutes, via the Central Experimental Farm and/or the Arboretum pathways and the Trillium pathways, connecting to the Ottawa River pathways and ultimately Gatineau Park.

Public Transit

Several high frequency buses serve the community from arterials such as Meadowlands, Merivale, Baseline and Fisher. The city intends to rebuild Baseline with a separate bus corridor, running all the way from the Queensway Carleton Hospital, passing Algonquin transit station as well as Algonquin College and then continue to Heron Road. A 5 km bus ride from Fisher and Baseline to the Tunneys LRT station is about 12-15 minutes. A bike ride is only slightly slower though (20 minutes). OCTranspo allows bicycles on the LRT at all times; the buses have bike racks during spring, summer and fall.

Walking

Walking becomes increasingly popular. As the city is replacing our 70 year old sewers, more and more streets are rebuilt with at least a side walk on one side of the street. Thanks to a somewhat intricate lay out of the neighbourhood, there is not too much fast traffic. the city is adding speed bumps on the busier roads.
FHACA Membership & Governance

FHACA is committed to being open, transparent, and accessible to everybody who lives in the community. It is a registered not-for-profit corporation.

A Board of Directors is elected during each Annual General Meeting in September, which takes place at Fisher Heights Community Place, 31 Sutton Place. All paid-up members of FHACA are eligible (and encouraged!) to run for positions on the Board of Directors or to volunteer to help with our activities.

The Board meets monthly, except in the summer.

Membership