The City of Ottawa released the first draft of its new Official Plan on November 20, 2020. After years of high level discussion papers, strategic policy directions, deferred growth management decisions, we would finally see what the City concretely intended to put in the new Official Plan. It wasn’t easy to discern however as the…
POLICY
A plethora of unsavory bills (Oct-Dec 2022) Ontario Elections, June 2 2022 (April 24, 2022) Don’t Shut Down the Local Planning Appeal Support Centre (Mar-Dec 2019) Bill 66, Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act (Dec 2018/Jan 2019)
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Last December 13, students in Queen’s University Urban Planning Program presented the result of a project, Canada’s Resilient Capital: Ottawa in the Next Half Century. The project was devised and executed in cooperation with the City, under the supervision of David Gordon. (The clients are identified as John Smit and Alain Miguelez.) Their Report (181…
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…