Policies & Threats Related to Greenspaces
New updated content: 2024-12-19 12:45:52 Conditions and fees for urban expansion applications under the new policy were approved at a Joint Meeting of Agricultural and Rural Affairs and Planning and Housing Committees on October 16, and approved by Council on October 20, when they took effect.
New updated content: 2024-12-19 12:45:50 The Greenspace Alliance signed on to the Peoples Official Plan Coalition’s submission on Draft 1 of the new Comprehensive Zoning Bylaw. Much of the work on the submission was done by CAFE’s Tree Caucus, supplemented by contributions from POP members, including the GA. It is excellent work, which covered all the points that the Alliance wished to make, and more. Draft 2 of the new
New updated content: 2024-12-19 12:45:51 Staff has sent a memo to Council regarding their communications with the Normal Farm Practices Board of Ontario, which was in response to a staff direction provided as a result of the Tewin deforestation. It was the invocation of the agricultural exemption that was used as justification for not applying the Tree Protection Bylaw or the Site Alteration Bylaw to this clear cut by the
New updated content: 2024-11-25 12:23:33 The revised Site Alteration By-law was passed on October 16. Despite staff’s initial recommendations and our representations in support, the By-law has in fact been weakened by reducing the limit of peri-urban area, the only rural area where the By-law applies, to 1 km from urban boundary from 2 km in the original version of the By-law. The proposal to extend its natural environment protection
New updated content: 2024-11-25 12:23:33 The City has published its response to the change in the PPS that allows for individual applications for expansions of the urban boundary outside of the 5-year Comprehensive review cycle. To their credit they have set fairly onerous conditions and stiff fees for proponents to avail themselves of this new provision. This is in line with the GA’s stated position on this policy change when
New updated content: 2024-11-25 12:23:30 The City is developing indicators and metrics to track the progress of implementing the new Official Plan. The GA put forward the request for the OP targets for canopy cover, access to greenspace and no net loss of rural wetlands and forest cover be included in the regular monitoring.
New updated content: 2024-10-21 11:07:37 An omnibus Official Plan Amendment (OPA) was to be considered at Planning and Housing Committee on August 28. The GA made a submission regarding the specific issue of Country Lot Subdivisions, which led to a meeting with the lead planner to further elaborate on the issue. We later learned that the Omnibus OPA will be brought to Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee on October 3
New updated content: 2024-04-15 08:20:13 City of Ottawa Wildlife Strategy The City of Ottawa is reviewing its Wildlife Strategy. This strategy covers mostly the issue of resident-wildlife interactions, not the broader issue of wildlife conservation and biodiversity. The current policy, which dates from 2013, is considered regressive, involving mostly trapping and removal and in the case of beavers, habitat destruction. GA member Ottawa Carleton Wildlife Centre has been very active
For this election cycle, the Greenspace Alliance decided to endorse candidates for Mayor and City Council seats. This is the list of candidates that, in our opinion, would be most likely to advance and take action on climate, environmental and greenspace issues in the next term of Council. The upcoming municipal election is the first one to be held after the City’s declaration of a Climate Emergency. This gives us
New updated content: 2022-08-29 09:59:31 Comprehensive Zoning By-law review Paul provided an update on the pre-consultation work being done by a broad stakeholders group, which includes the GA and the FCA, on the Comprehensive Zoning By-law review. Three meeting have been held to date, each dealing with the potential trade-offs in the context of given high level zoning scenarios applicable to the area designated as Neighbourhood in the new Official
