New updated content: 2025-08-13 11:50:43

After review, the GA supported the POP submission on Draft 2 of the new Zoning Bylaw, in particular those sections that deal with the preservation of trees and greenspace. This submission was sent to the City on July 7 and is posted on the POP website.

In response to a full-page article in the Ottawa Citizen featuring Jason Burgraaf, the Executive Director of the Greater Ottawa Homebuilders Association, POP drafted a letter that supported the industry’s propositions on two outstanding issues in the Zoning Bylaw Review, one of which was extending the allowable building height to 3 meters in residential areas across the city. While building heights are not typically within the GA’s purview, it abstained from supporting this letter as it did not sufficiently take into account the community’s perspective on this issue. While we fully support intensification as the preferred growth strategy for the city, we believe it must be community led and improve community liveability for it to be sustained over the long-term.