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Ontario Bill 185

New updated content: 2024-04-15 08:20:13 Ontario Bill 185 Just this week, the Province has announced yet another omnibus bill to spur more rapid residential construction, walking back some provisions of previous housing bills, bringing back provisions previously dropped in similar earlier bills and other general flailing around to address housing supply. There has been no time to analyze the new Bill more carefully but one provision that stands out is

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Paul Johanis April 15, 2024 September 30, 2024

Ontario Bill 97

New updated content: 2023-04-17 12:18:14 The GA participated in a workshop on the Transportation Master Plan sponsored by POP and led by the FCA. It was held on April 15 at the Jack Purcell Community Centre and was attended by about 40 people. The meeting of the Transportation Committee at which the TMP was to be considered was pushed forward to April 17 from April 20, leaving very little time

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Paul Johanis April 17, 2023 August 30, 2024

A plethora of unsavory bills

With their new majority, the Conservatives unleashed a barrage of new legislation chipping away at representative municipal government and laying siege to the province’s natural heritage, under the subterfuge of more housing, quicker. Bill 109, the More Homes for Everyone Act, 2022 was introduced on March 30, 2022 and received Royal Assent on April 14, 2022. It mostly imposed fixed deadlines for city approvals of planning applications, with fines for

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Erwin Dreessen January 14, 2023 June 24, 2024

Ontario Bill 23

New updated content: 2022-11-21 10:30:13 Ontario Bill 23, Building More Homes Faster Almost hand in hand with the new OP, the provincial government unveiled Bill 23, an omnibus bill modifying many Acts, regulations and policies to turbocharge residential construction. The only good part of the bill from an environmental perspective is that it contains measures to promote gentle intensification, and in particular the elimination of exclusionary zoning for single detached

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Paul Johanis November 21, 2022 November 26, 2024

Ottawa Municipal Election 2022

For this election cycle, the Greenspace Alliance decided to endorse candidates for Mayor and City Council seats. This is the list of candidates that, in our opinion, would be most likely to advance and take action on climate, environmental and greenspace issues in the next term of Council. The upcoming municipal election is the first one to be held after the City’s declaration of a Climate Emergency. This gives us

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Erwin Dreessen October 13, 2022 September 3, 2024

Zoning Bylaw review

New updated content: 2022-08-29 09:59:31 Comprehensive Zoning By-law review Paul provided an update on the pre-consultation work being done by a broad stakeholders group, which includes the GA and the FCA, on the Comprehensive Zoning By-law review. Three meeting have been held to date, each dealing with the potential trade-offs in the context of given high level zoning scenarios applicable to the area designated as Neighbourhood in the new Official

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Paul Johanis August 29, 2022 November 26, 2024

Ontario Provincial Elections 2022

From the Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital, April 24 2022 The Ontario provincial election is only 40 days away (June 2, 2022). In Ottawa, it is hardly being talked about, flying under the radar as it were. This likely benefits the incumbent government, a prospect that should deeply concern anyone committed to climate and other environmental action in Ontario. The Ford government has gutted greenspace, weakened environmental oversight and failed

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Erwin Dreessen April 23, 2022 June 24, 2024

POP2

New updated content: 2022-02-21 09:15:11 Paul provided information on the final report being prepared for the Ottawa Community Foundation regarding the Peoples Official Plan, as required under the grant agreement between Ecology Ottawa, as POP contact point, and the OCF. Given the achievements of POP and the strength of the network of organizations working together under its umbrella, it was agreed that it would continue operating post Official Plan approval

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Paul Johanis February 21, 2022 August 30, 2024

Parkland Dedication Bylaw

New updated content: 2022-01-17 09:09:38 The City is required to update its parkland dedication by-law, which requires cash or land from developers for parks as part of development applications. A consultation session is scheduled for February 16 (since cancelled, but further consultation sessions are expected to be held in March. More details <here>. New updated content: 2022-03-28 09:25:58 Paul reported that he will be attending a first information session provided

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Paul Johanis January 17, 2022 August 30, 2024

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