McDonald's looking to move into old Scotiabank building in Westboro
![Scotiabank Westboro Scotiabank said Friday it will be closing its Westboro branch. (Peter Szperling/CTV News Ottawa)](/content/dam/ctvnews/en/images/2023/11/3/scotiabank-westboro-1-6630243-1699031816145.png)
A McDonald's restaurant could soon be opening in Ottawa's Westboro neighbourhood.
The plans for the new restaurant in the old Scotiabank on Richmond Road are contained in a report for the Committee of Adjustment, which requests permission to open a restaurant with no parking spaces.
The report says the applicant wants to renovate the existing building to open a new McDonald's restaurant. The applicant is asking for permission to permit zero parking spaces for a restaurant, noting the current Zoning Bylaw requires 18 parking spaces for a restaurant.
- Sign up now for daily CTV News Ottawa newsletters
- The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News App
A letter from MRA Architecture and Design, on behalf of McDonald's, says two parking spaces will be provided on a neighbouring lot under an agreement with the lot owner.
"The proposed minor variance is consistent with the intent of the Official Plan as the reduced minimum number of parking spaces encourages the use of transit, cycling and walking," the letter states, adding the majority of the clientele is located within a 10-minute walk of the restaurant.
"The site is also situated between two future rapid transit stations, 450-metre walking distance to the Kìchì Sìbì LRT station and 850-meter walking distance to the Westboro LRT station."
A look at the proposed McDonald's on Richmond Road in Westboro. (MRA Architecture and Design/report)
The Committee of Adjustment will discuss the proposal on Sept. 4.
The Scotiabank branch at 388 Richmond Road closed earlier this year after being open for more than 100 years in Westboro. Scotiabank told CTV News Ottawa it made the "difficult decision to consolidate" the branch on Richmond Road with the branch at the Hampton Park Plaza.
CTVNews.ca Top Stories
![](https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.7034404.1726088503!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_800/image.jpg)
'Buy nothing': PSAC wants federal workers to boycott downtown Ottawa businesses
A union representing federal employees is asking its members to bring their own lunch to work, in an apparent retaliation against downtown Ottawa businesses as new return-to-office protocols begin.
Actions speak louder: What experts are saying about the body language in the U.S. presidential debate
The highly anticipated debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was a heated matchup. Here's what experts who analyzed the exchange had to say.
Jon Bon Jovi helps talk woman down from ledge on Nashville bridge
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jon Bon Jovi and a video production assistant persuaded a woman standing on the ledge of a pedestrian bridge in Nashville to come back over the railing to safety.
Inside a Manitoba ghost town, a group of ladies works to keep it alive
Abandoned homes line the streets of Lauder, a town that's now a ghost of what it once was. Yet inside, a small community is thriving.
B.C. family says razor blades found in bag of frozen blueberries
The B.C. parents of an 11-year-old girl said their daughter recently found a package containing razor blades in a bag of Kirkland-brand frozen blueberries.
Langenburg UFO sighting commemorated with silver coin
Perhaps Saskatchewan's most famous encounter with Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP/UFO) – "The Langenburg Event" is now being immortalized in the form of a collective coin.
Taylor Swift wins at MTV Video Music Awards and Chappell Roan gets medieval
Taylor Swift and Post Malone took home the first award at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, for best collaboration, handed to them by Flavor Flav and Olympian Jordan Chiles.
Man, 70, and woman, 71, found shot dead in Montreal apartment, police
Montreal police (SPVM) are investigating after a man, 70, and woman, 71, were killed by gunshot wounds in an apartment.
Tens of thousands in the dark after Hurricane Francine strikes Louisiana with 100 m.p.h. winds
Hurricane Francine struck Louisiana on Wednesday evening as a Category 2 storm that forecasters warned could bring deadly storm surge, widespread flooding and destructive winds on the northern U.S. Gulf Coast.