Category: Official Plan 2021

On April 17, 2008 the City of Ottawa advises: Official Plan preliminary proposals ready for public review The City of Ottawa will table a report of preliminary proposals resulting from the initial review of the Official Plan and the Infrastructure Master Plan at Planning and Environment Committee meeting on April 22. The Official Plan must be reviewed every five years as mandated by the Ontario Planning Act. The existing policies

Beyond Ottawa 20/20 Planning for the Future The City advises: November 7, 2008 Official plan review heads to the finish line… Upcoming Events Notice of Special Meetings, Official Plan Review Planning and Environment Committee : November 24 2008 Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee : November 27, 2008 9:30 a.m., Champlain Room, Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West Since October 2007, Planning staff have worked on revisions to the city’s

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

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

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

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:

… leading to OPA 76 Scope and timing of the review (Apr 2007) Official Plan discussion papers (Oct 2007) 89 Questions… and Answers Population projections (Sep-Nov 2007) Guides to land use planning in Ontario (anno 2007) Should the urban boundary be pushed out? Rural settlement strategy (Mar 2007 – Jun 2008) Transportation Master Plan review (Feb – Sep 2008) Next stages in the review of Ottawa’s Official Plan (Apr –

Divisional Court granted leave to appeal the OMB’s decision to uphold the moratorium on country lot estate applications.  The 10-page decision, dated June 28, 2012, is attached (1.5 MB). Formally, this decision only grants leave to appeal the OMB Decision of November 25, 2011.  In doing so, however, it rather severely criticizes the Board’s basis for approving the moratorium, including it calling the measure a “pause.”  “It is highly debatable,”