Category: OTTAWA CITY HALL

The Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT, formerly OMB) held another pre-hearing conference last Friday morning.  Its main outcome is that the dates are set for hearings of the various appeals of OPA 150/140/179/180, the cluster of Comprehensive Official Plan review amendments: Appeals on Mineral Aggregates matters, which are expected to take only two days, will be heard on October 23 and 24, 2018. Other hearings will take place starting on

Adapted from our 2015-16 Annual Report: …by the end of 2013, the City proceeded with the revision of the Development Charges By-law, to be completed by June 2014 as prescribed by the Development Charges Act. The public was excluded from this process, despite a joint effort by the Alliance, the Federation of Citizens’ Associations (FCA) and the Healthy Transportation Coalition (media release of 31 March 2014). At the last minute

January 3 was booked as the first of three days for an Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) Pre-Hearing Conference to consider a raft of appeals on a long list of matters, but it was all over by 1 p.m.  So while everything hummed along smoothly, the last hour produced a nasty surprise. At issue were the appeals of – OPA 150, approved by Council in December 2013 but derailed by the

Pre-hearing conference of January 3, 2018 Pre-hearing conference of May 4, 2018 The consolidated text of the Official Plan, as of October 2018 (PDF – 15 MB), annotated Pre-hearing conference of October 22, 2018 Pre-hearing conference of May 22, 2019 (includes Building Heights and Design settlement) Hearings (and links to the respective Procedural Order) + Mineral Aggregates – October 23-24, 2018 + Agricultural matters: March 4, 2019 (10 days) (PO) UPDATE: