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Beyond Green Buildings

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

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DevAdmin November 25, 2018 June 24, 2024

Ottawa River Watershed Study Report

New updated content: 2018-02-26 18:01:19 We wrote indicating our interest and seeing if there was anything we could do to contribute. There will be an open house held this Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. updated content: 2018-10-29 14:33:13 The Environment Canada team leading the ORWS issued its first report, with a deadline for comments submission by October 31. This led to a very good discussion by members, with

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Paul Johanis October 29, 2018 August 30, 2024

Policy / Province of Ontario

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)

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Claudia Ruiz October 25, 2018 June 24, 2024

Policy / Ottawa City Hall

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

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Claudia Ruiz October 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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