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Fernbank: OPA 77, its Appeal and its consequences

[page under construction] While efforts to meet the conditions of the Minister’s Order of July 2008 continued so that development in Kanata West could proceed, a development on land just upstream was forging ahead. After the OMB-sanctioned conversion of this land from rural to urban (in 2005, on appeal from ‘Del-Brookfield-Westpark’), a Fernbank Community Design Plan was approved, followed by an Official Plan Amendment (OPA 77), adopted in June 2009. 

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DevAdmin February 16, 2020 June 24, 2024

Budget 2000

From : Barbara Barr Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 17:11 To: gacc@home.com Subject: Budget 2000 Oral Presentation Hello Greenspace Alliance members and friends, I gave the oral presentation for Ottawa’s “Budget 2000″ on Jan. 14. Since some councillors were not present at the public hearing, I wrote a short cover letter and faxed it and the text of the oral presentation for distribution to every councillor. Thanks very much to

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DevAdmin January 18, 2020 June 24, 2024

Natural systems

Once again, hearings which were scheduled to take two weeks, were disposed of in a 20-minute teleconference call on June 11, 2019. Settlement with all appellants had been presented to Council on March 6 (Item 23) and April 10 (Item 1). On the appeals of OPA 179 (Significant Woodlands), the settlement involved a change from 40 to 60 years as the minimum age of an urban woodlot to be designated

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DevAdmin June 17, 2019 June 24, 2024

Pre-hearing conference of May 22, 2019

The pre-hearing conference of May 22 was over within the hour.  The main business was the City’s motion to settle all appeals related to “Building Heights and Design.”  This was presented to Planning Committee on April 11, 2019 (item 8) and endorsed by City Council on April 24 (item 20).  The City could now announce that the last appellant (Bridgeport) had withdrawn its appeal and that settlement had been reached

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DevAdmin May 31, 2019 June 24, 2024

Launch of 2036 Official Plan Review

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

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Paul Johanis February 25, 2019 August 30, 2024

Settlement of GA appeal of OPA 150

New updated content: 2019-02-25 08:51:32 The City has followed through with the settlement measure that was discussed at our September 18 2018 meeting with them. They have agreed to show the greenspace linkages, established in OPA 76 as a result of an earlier settlement of a GA appeal, in a new non-binding Annex 16 to the Official Plan. This satisfies our settlement proposal and we now await formal documentation and

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Paul Johanis February 25, 2019 August 30, 2024

Development Charges 2019

Background on Development Charges (DCs) To find out what happened in 2014, please go here. To find out what happened in 2014-2018, please go here (the untold story!) In brief: + Development Charges pay for a lot, but not all of the infrastructure cost of growth. A reasonable guess is that DCs cover 60-70% of the true cost of growth. Any gap is funded by all property tax payers. + Despite

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DevAdmin December 24, 2018 June 24, 2024

Pre-hearing conference of October 22, 2018

In a session that lasted less than two hours, the City presented two settlements that had been reached with various appellants: One party’s appeal of OPA 180 and a large number of OPA 150 appeals by the Greater Ottawa Homebuilders Association (GOHBA) and the Building Owners and Management Association (BOMA).  The settlements had previously been presented to Planning Committee and approved by Council on October 10.  (Also recall the related

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DevAdmin October 22, 2018 June 24, 2024

Greenspace Alliance 2018 Municipal Election Survey

The Greenspace Alliance has conducted a survey of the candidates for City Council on their awareness of and commitment to address greenspace issues.  The questionnaire deals with specific policies and issues that are on the City agenda and which the elected councillors will need to consider in the next term of Council. There are 102 candidates vying for 23 councillor positions. Six had no email address, one withdrew from the

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Erwin Dreessen October 6, 2018 June 24, 2024

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