Planning Committee

(on behalf of Councillor C. McKenney) WHEREAS Report ACS2019-PIE-PS-0061 details the intent for the City of Ottawa and Trinity Developments to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to address the issue of Affordable Housing at 900 Albert Street; and WHEREAS Ward Councillors can submit comments to be included in reports; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the following replace the text of the “Comments by Ward Councillor” section of the Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Ottawa and 801 Albert Street Inc. Report: “I am pleased to see this investment in Affordable Housing by Trinity Developments and thank them for the ongoing deliberations to arrive at the amount. However, this MOU is also evidence that the City of Ottawa needs a strong Inclusionary Zoning policy to ensure affordable housing is provided in all new developments. Communities and the City should not be required to fight for affordable housing funds to be supplied retroactively. An IZ policy would have achieved more affordable units within a site in close proximity to rapid transit. The community expects that these funds will remain within the vicinity of 900 Albert and will help to provide affordable housing units in this community to contribute to transit oriented development around the new LRT stations.”

(on behalf of Councillor C. McKenney) WHEREAS Report ACS2019-PIE-PS-0061 recommends that Council delegate the authority to the General Manager of Planning, Infrastructure and Economic Development to enter a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU); AND WHEREAS the MOU between the City of Ottawa and 801 Albert Street Inc. outlines that a price of $1,250,000.00 has been agreed upon for parcels 1 and 2 shown on the attached Document; AND WHEREAS through the Site Plan Control process, 801 Albert Inc. has agreed to provide $6,250,000 towards affordable housing in the City of Ottawa; AND WHEREAS this is a generous contribution from this development towards meeting the needs of providing affordable housing; AND WHEREAS rents and average home prices in the City continue to increase at a rate higher than inflation and is becoming more unaffordable to households at or below the City’s 40th income percentile; AND WHEREAS the City’s Centralized Waiting List for Social Housing now exceeds 12,000 households and more efforts need to be made to provide affordable housing options; AND WHEREAS through the sale of parcel 1 and parcel 2 parcel of adjacent City land there is more opportunity for this proposed development, the tallest in Ottawa, to contribute to these broader City goals and needs; AND WHEREAS, the City has revenues of $6.5M included in the budget for the sale of lands from both surplus lands and Ottawa Community Lands Development Corporation (OCLDC), and at the end of September there was

(on behalf of Councillor M. Fleury) WHEREAS staff are currently working on the R4 Zoning Study scheduled to come to Planning Committee in 2020; and WHEREAS it is appropriate to direct staff to consider the request now, as the study is being conducted, in order to be included; and Whereas to ensure openness and transparency it is further appropriate to direct this consideration in advance of the consideration in the study; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Planning Committee approve the following item be added to the agenda pursuant to subsection 89(3) of the Rules of Procedure: • Direction to staff to consider Sandy Hill Waste Management as part of R4 Zoning Study.

(on behalf of Councillor M. Fleury) That Planning Committee direct staff to assess the mechanisms of requiring an indoor garbage storage area for the geographic area of Sandy Hill covered by Schedule 383 inside the main building for all multi-unit residential buildings regardless of the floor area and include options to implement this in the Zoning By-law in the forthcoming R4 Phase 2 report to be brought back to Planning Committee in 2020.