Policies & Threats Related to Greenspaces
Ottawa Municipal Election 2022 Ottawa’s new Official Plan Preparing for a New Official Plan: Beyond 2036 Consultation on the new Official Plan, 2019 Workshops on Climate Solutions and Ottawa’s New Official Plan Draft policy directions for new Official Plan approved Planning Committee approves urban expansion, but not how much City updates stakeholders
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
Mayoral debate – 26 Sep 2018 Results of the 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
New updated content: 2018-05-28 11:50:12 April 24 Paul was unable to attend, along with one other member, and Nick Stow will arrange to meet individually with him. We learned at the May 4 OMB pre-hearing conference that the appeal of OPA 179, by which the Significant Woodland Policy was adopted, will not be heard until 2019. As a result, the output of the Working Group will likely not be considered
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
New updated content: 2018-04-23 11:06:41 report from April 19th CAFES meeting Kate attended this meeting on behalf of the GA. The main outcome of the meeting unfortunately seems to have been the disappointment of the participants that Martha Copestake, the City Forester, did not attend although it was expected she would. This does not bode well for public consultation on this issue and a letter of concern will be drafted
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
New updated content: 2018-03-26 10:04:19 update, brainstorm Amanda has focused on researching what other nonprofit organizations have done regarding municipal elections. She suggested the possibility of using a survey as a way to communicate with candidates. Jake looked through our archives to identify strategies we’ve used during previous elections. He compiled data on how city councillors have voted in the past regarding issues GA has worked on. The data showed
First regulations (December 7, 2017) On December 7, the government posted two proposed regulations under Bill 139 on the EBR registry: EBR 013-1788 — transition provisions EBR 013-1790 — provisions about minimum information requirements for material sent to the tribunal The Ministry’s press release The Hon. Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi’s notice to the community The comment period for these regulations is until January 21, 2018. Proclamation date announced On
