Joint Meeting of the Planning Committee and Community and Protective Services Committee

WHEREAS the Planning Act , as amended by Bill 73, the Smart Growth for Our Communities Act, 2015, encompasses provisions around public engagement requirements, including identifying how Council decision-making incorporates formal public submissions; and WHEREAS City Council adopted a practice in 2016 in an effort to meet those requirements whereby staff reports involving Zoning By-law Amendments or Official Plan Amendments include a recommendation that requires the Office of the City Clerk to prepare a summary of the oral and written submissions received by the Committee Coordinator between the publication of the associated reports with the respective committee agenda and the time of Council’s decision on the matters; and WHEREAS the standard recommendation in respect of this explanation requirement was inadvertently omitted from report ACS2021-PIE-EDP-0005; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the report be amended to include the following recommendation: “ That the Community and Protective Services Committee and Planning Committee approve the Consultation Details Section of this report be included as part of the ‘brief explanation’ in the Summary of Written and Oral Public Submissions, to be prepared by the Office of the City Clerk and submitted to Council in the report titled, “Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions for Items Subject to the Planning Act ‘Explanation Requirements’ at the City Council Meeting of April 28, 2021,” subject to submissions received between the p

WHEREAS, as part of the Report on Rental Accommodations Study and Regulatory Regime (ASC2019-EPS-GEN-0015) that detailed the research which informed the recommended Short-term Rentals By-law being proposed by staff, Maclaren Municipal Consulting prepared an independent assessment of local regulations and recommendations for municipal consideration (The Regulation of Short-Term Rental Accommodations report) ; and WHEREAS, following the publication of the Short-term Rental By-law report on the agenda for this meeting, an error was noted in the language of the report which could give readers the false understanding that Maclaren Municipal Consulting endorsed staff’s recommendation to apply the principal residence requirement to secondary dwelling units, and this language requires minor corrective amendments; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that prior to consideration by the Joint Committee and Council, the language in the ‘Discussion’ section of report ACS2021-EPS-PPD-0001, under the last paragraph of the subsection ‘The Principal Residence Requirement’ (page 12 of the report as posted with the agenda), be changed from: ‘ As a result of the above, staff recommend that the principal residence requirement is an integral part of Ottawa’s regulatory regime. This is supported by Maclaren Municipal Consulting’s final report, which noted that “Limiting short-term rentals to principal residences is a theme shared by reforms in other jurisdictions, including the leading Canadian examples of Van