Category: POLICY

In late February, word came around that the newly created Support Centre to help communities in provincial planning matters would shut down by June and would not take on any new clients. Since it opened its doors in April, it has dealt with 570 requests from 168 communities!  What better proof that this kind of help is badly needed. So we’re not taking this lying down: Here is a press

A most interesting discussion panel was assembled for an NCC Urbanism Lab on November 20, 2018.  The event took place at the new headquarters of the Canadian Geographical Society, 50 Sussex Drive (the former International Pavilion).  It was co-sponsored by the Canada Green Building Council and the Embassy of the U.S. Speakers were: + Doug Farr (Farr Associates, Chicago, a company that bills itself as “a firm of optimistic architects and planners

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        Planning Committee approves urban expansion, but not how much        City updates stakeholders