The Ottawa Record

Planning and Housing Committee

October 9, 2024

Who was there

Present (10): Riley Brockington, Cathy Curry, Laura Dudas, Glen Gower, Laine Johnson, Theresa Kavanagh, Catherine Kitts, Jeff Leiper, Tim Tierney, Ariel Troster

Absent (2): Clarke Kelly, Wilson Lo

Taken from the roll call in the town’s own minutes. The minutes record who was not there and almost never why.

What was decided (3 motions)

2 carried, 1 recorded otherwise. Every motion below is printed as the minutes print it.

WHEREAS report ACS2024-PDB-PS-0087 - Omnibus 2 - Official Plan Amendment includes a new Area-Specific Policy to limit the number of emergency shelters permitted in Ward 12 to four; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the proposed Amendment 56 to Volume 2C, New Area-Specific Policy (Page 27 of Document 1 – Appendix A) be
Moved by T. Tierney
Referred
WHEREAS report ACS2024-PDB-PS-0087 - Omnibus 2 - Official Plan Amendment (the Report) is targeting the City Council meeting on October 16, 2024; and WHEREAS staff have received multiple submissions relating to the proposed amendments in the Report following its publication on eSCRIBE; and WHEREAS staff require additional time to review the submissions ahead of Council. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Planning and Housing Committee adopt the following additional recommendation: That Recommendation 1 and proposed Official Plan Amendment 34 proceed from the Planning and Housing Committee to the Council meeting of October 30, 2024.
Moved by G. Gower
Carried
WHEREAS report ACS2024-PDB-PS-0087 - Omnibus 2 - Official Plan Amendment proposes to clarify that a secondary plan only replaces or supersedes the Official Plan where there is overlapping policy; and WHEREAS recent comments through the consultation process identified potential misinterpretation associated with the wording in proposed Amendment 35 in Document 1 – Appendix A; and WHEREAS Amendment 35 intends to clarify that the policies for the underlying designation in Volume 1 of the Official Plan apply when a secondary plan or area-specific policy does not contain direction for maximum heights or densities. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Amendment 35 in Document 1 – Appendix A be replaced with the following: A secondary plan or area-specific policy, adopted as part of Volume 2 of this Plan, may implement density and building heights that differ from those in Volume 1 of the Official Plan. Where a secondary plan or area-specific policy does not contain direction for maximum heights or densities, the policies in Volume 1 of the Official Plan apply, as they relate to the underlying designation.
Moved by G. Gower
Carried

The town’s own record

Read the minutes this page was read from →

Where this page and that document disagree, the document is right and this record is wrong. Say so and it will be corrected.