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Workshop on Climate Solutions and Ottawa’s New Official Plan

On November 15 and 16 some 100 people gathered for a day and a half at Bayview Yards in Ottawa to discuss the climate crisis face to face and define priority actions that must be included in Ottawa’s new Official Plan to address the climate emergency. The organization of the workshop was led by Daniel Buckles and Paul Johanis of the Greenspace Alliance, with significant support from Ecology Ottawa, The

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Erwin Dreessen November 19, 2019 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  The City could now announce that the last appellant (Bridgeport) had withdrawn its appeal and that settlement had been reached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

Water rate structure review

At Environment Committee, May 19, 2015 The Greenspace Alliance’s submission (May 19, 2015) The City’s new proposals and decision (October 2016; updated February 2019) ECO calls on the Province to lead stormwater funding reform (November 2016) Province proposes runoff volume control targets (July 2017) What Waterloo, Victoria and Halifax are doing About rain gardens and road run-off

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DevAdmin March 18, 2019 December 8, 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

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

The City’s new proposals and decision

After a summer of reworking its Spring proposals, on October 3, 2016 the City tabled its revised recommendations.  The slides used by staff at the October 18 Environment Committee meeting are here. Earlier, the City issued a What We Heard report about the Spring consultations.  Find it here (1 MB). Following the Environment Committee meeting, the Clerk’s Office made a 74-page file available containing submissions from 50 citizens, redacted for

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DevAdmin February 4, 2019 December 8, 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

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