Policies & Threats Related to Greenspaces
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
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The City of Ottawa released the first draft of its new Official Plan on November 20, 2020. After years of high level discussion papers, strategic policy directions, deferred growth management decisions, we would finally see what the City concretely intended to put in the new Official Plan. It wasn’t easy to discern however as the draft OP is a massive 264 page document, plus schedules and annexes. A deadline of
We don’t want any urban expansion, because climate change. In May 2019, we proposed a No Expansion scenario, with 63.5% of projected growth to be achieved through intensification, the balance by building out the remaining vacant greenfields already inside the urban area. The City concedes that: “This scenario represents the greatest extent to which growth management can contribute to achieving policy directions where most growth occurs through intensification, growth uses existing
On September 24, City staff briefed the FCA-GOHBA (Federation of Citizens’ Associations, of which the Greenspace Alliance is a member, and the Greater Ottawa Home Builders Association) stakeholders group on policy directions expected in the draft Official Plan that will be released in late November 2020. In an extensive presentation, senior planning staff gave the attendees a first look at the proposed structure of the new Official Plan. New concepts
In preparation for the next revision of the Official Plan, the City has launched the Beyond 20136 Sounding Board. Around 50 representatives from a wide spectrum of organization and interests, public, private and from civil society have been invited by the City to advise it on how to frame and position the next revision of the Official Plan. What approach should it take? What kind of public engagement? Clean slate
In preparation for the next revision of the Official Plan, the City has launched the Beyond 20136 Sounding Board. Around 50 representatives from a wide spectrum of organization and interests, public, private and from civil society have been invited by the City to advise it on how to frame and position the next revision of the Official Plan. What approach should it take? What kind of public engagement? Clean slate
Last December 13, students in Queen’s University Urban Planning Program presented the result of a project, Canada’s Resilient Capital: Ottawa in the Next Half Century. The project was devised and executed in cooperation with the City, under the supervision of David Gordon. (The clients are identified as John Smit and Alain Miguelez.) Their Report (181 pp.) and Executive Summary (3 pp.) are now available from here: http://www.queensu.ca/geographyandplanning/surp/project-courses. Here are the
The Greenspace Alliance was invited to sit as a member of the Sounding Board for the City planning exercise Beyond 2036. The goal of this planning project was to set the scene and context for the next review of the Official Plan. Through its participation at meetings and workshops organized by city planners over several months, the GA contributed to the production and review of the planning reports listed on
