Category: Official Plan 2008

PDF version Official Plan Review Comments by the Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital To the Planning and Environment Committee, 24 November 2008 and the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, 27 November 2008 The Greenspace Alliance is submitting the following comments on the proposed amendments to the City’s Official Plan as reported to the meetings of the Planning and Environment Committee, 24 November and of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee on

Not only the Official Plan, but also its supporting Master Plans for Transportation and Infrastructure are being reviewed. Project leader for this Review is Colin Simpson, Planner, Transportation – Strategic Planning Unit, Planning, Transit and Environment Department, City of Ottawa, 110 Laurier Ave West, 4th Floor, K1P 1J1, Tel: (613) 580-2424 ext. 27881 , e-mail: colin.simpson (at) ottawa.ca. In his Winter 2008 Newsletter of January 18, Colin reviewed what has happened

On July 31, 2008, on behalf of the Greenspace Alliance, Chris Szpak submitted detailed comments on staff’s Preliminary Proposals for the Official Plan Review.   Comments by the Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital 31 July 2008 The Greenspace Alliance is submitting the following comments on the document, Official Plan Review: Preliminary Proposals produced by the City’s Planning, Transit and Environment Department (22 April 2008). We thank you in advance for

One of the changes to the Planning Act that came about in 2006 is that, in principle, changes to the Urban Boundary cannot be made or a refusal to make changes cannot be appealed unless the change is made as part of a 5-year review of the Official Plan. This is therefore an issue which will be discussed in 2008. To start things off, on the agenda of Planning and

I found this web page that has a good overview of how land use planning occurs in Ontario. It has links to all the relevant Acts and policy, so it is useful to bookmark. www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page186.aspx Bill Royds 17 December 2007   and more… That’s an excellent reference for the overall picture, Bill. Another interesting page is http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page167.aspx [no longer found online]. The full text of these “Innovative Municipal Land Use

At the last minute, City staff called a meeting to present and discuss the new population projections: (Message from the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, September 13, 2007:) “A last-minute announcement has been received of an event entitled “The Future of Ottawa’s Growth – 2006-2031 Population Projections / La croissance future d’Ottawa – Projections démographiques 2006-2031”. This event, to be held Monday September 17 from 6pm to 9pm at Festival Room

On November 2, 2007 Al Crosby wrote to the GA list: “Hi Folks, Re: Planning Ottawa http://www.city.ottawa.on.ca/residents/public_consult/beyond_2020/index_en.html, I read the Rural Discussion Papers and White Papers associated with the Beyond Ottawa 20/20 initiative and extracted the 89 questions from the White Papers below. Someone else may want to use them to submit their answers. I must say, it looks daunting for a single resident to provide comments on such a

From the GA list, October 19, 2007: At the Planning and Environment Committee meeting of October 23, 2007 City staff will table a series of discussion papers in preparation for the 2008 version of the Official Plan. They will be available at the Champlain Room at 9:30 a.m. and posted to the web site that day. The papers’ topics are: White Paper Topics (written by staff, no recommendations) Residential Intensification:

Item 6 on the Agenda of Planning and Environment Committee of April 24, 2007 concerned the Scope and Timing of the Review of the Official Plan, the Transportation Master Plan and the Infrastructure Master Plan. The Greenspace Alliance made this submission: To: Chair Peter Hume and Members of Planning and Environment Committee Given the importance of the Official Plan, we find it disturbing that this document seems to downplay the