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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

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

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

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

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Erwin Dreessen October 6, 2018 June 24, 2024

Significant Woodlands Working Group

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

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Paul Johanis May 28, 2018 August 30, 2024

Pre-hearing conference of May 4, 2018

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

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DevAdmin May 20, 2018 June 24, 2024

Tree Conservation Bylaw

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

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Paul Johanis April 23, 2018 August 30, 2024

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