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City Council
August 23, 2017
What was decided (8 motions)
8 carried, 0 recorded otherwise. Every motion below is printed as the minutes print it.
That Item 3 of Planning Committee Report 48 and the report from the City Clerk and Solicitor’s Office entitled “Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions for Items Subject to Bill 73 ‘Explanation Requirements’ at the City Council Meeting of July 12, 2017” b e received and considered; and That the Rules of Procedure be suspended to receive and consider Items 1 and 2 of Planning Committee Report 49, in order to meet the statutory 90-day timeline for consideration under the Ontario Heritage Act ; and That, pursuant to subsection 35 (5) of Procedure By-law 2016-377, Council receive and consider Item 3 of Planning Committee Report 49.
Moved by Councillor A. Hubley, seconded by Councillor M. Qaqish
Carried
That Item 3 of Planning Committee Report 48, Planning Committee Report 49 and the report from the City Clerk and Solicitor’s Office entitled “ Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions for Items Subject to Bill 73 ‘Explanation Requirements’ at the City Council Meeting of July 12, 2017 ” be received and adopted as amended.
Moved by Councillor A. Hubley, seconded by Councillor M. Qaqish
Carried
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Rules of Procedure be suspended to consider the following Motion, due to the desire to move forward with this initiative after delays resulting from the summer legislative agenda schedule and the City's interest in supporting economic development opportunities. WHEREAS T elecommunication companies generally have a statutory right to use municipal streets, but this is subject to the consent of the municipality, with the process, terms and conditions for granting Municipal Consent embodied in a Municipal Access Agreement (MAA) and consistent with the five right-of-way management principles developed by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) as adopted by Council on March 28, 2001; and WHEREAS Community Fibre Company is a registered telecommunications provider with the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC); and WHEREAS Community Fibre Company has entered into an agreement, subject to Council approval, with City of Ottawa whereby Community Fibre will install telecommunications equipment including wires and cables, ducts, conduits, manholes and other structures, within the City rights-of-way to provide communities with higher speed internet access; and WHEREAS as part of the MAA, Community Fibre Company has agreed to pay the City an annual cost recovery fee of $5,000 plus appropriate taxes as compensation for costs incurred by the City due to the installation of its equipment and its presence in City streets and has agr
Moved by Councillor J. Leiper, seconded by Councillor S. Moffatt
Carried
That the Rules of Procedure be suspended to consider the following motion to avoid unnecessary delays in the redevelopment of the Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre in accordance with the recently adopted Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre Secondary Plan. WHEREAS Report ACS2017-PIE-PS-0057 recommended approval of an amendment to Volume 1 of the Official Plan for the City of Ottawa to designate 1910 St. Laurent Boulevard as Arterial Mainstreet and add to Volume 2a of the Official Plan the Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre Secondary Plan; and WHEREAS Council on July 12, 2017 approved the report recommendation and adopted Official Plan Amendment No. 189 through By-law No. 2017-233; and WHEREAS Document 2 of the said report as well as Official Plan Amendment No. 189 contain schedules associated with the Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre Secondary Plan that were incorrectly labelled; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Council adopt the attached Official Plan Amendment to amend the title blocks of the schedules contained within the Elmvale Acres Secondary Plan to read as set out in the attached schedules to this motion. SCHEDULE A SCHEDULE B SCHEDULE C SCHEDULE D
Moved by Councillor J. Cloutier, seconded by Councillor J. Harder
Carried
That the Rules of Procedure be waived, due to the Federation of Canadian Muncipalities’ (FCM) timelines, to consider the following: WHEREAS the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is working in partnership with the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) on the Building Inclusive Green Municipalities (BIGM) project, a five-year, $5.8 million initiative to help build sustainable infrastructure, generate inclusive growth and address the impact of climate change in the Eastern Cape Province; and WHEREAS the BIGM project pairs individual Canadian municipalities with South African municipal counterparts in the Eastern Cape Province in order to share advice, training and best practices regarding modernizing infrastructure, including integrating climate change adaptation and asset management practices, and stimulating local economies, with a strong emphasis on empowering vulnerable segments of society, including women and youth; and WHEREAS the City of Ottawa applied, subject to obtaining Council approval, to participate in the BIGM project, and on 1 August 2017, was notified that it has been selected to partner with the Municipality of Ndlambe and the Municipality of Nelson Mandela Bay for a period of three years; and WHEREAS FCM and the SALGA have secured funding to cover the direct costs associated with the City of Ottawa’s participation in the BIGM project and the municipal contribution will be the donation of staff time; and WHEREAS, should Council approve th
Moved by Councillor T. Tierney, seconded by Councillor M. Wilkinson
Carried
C. McKenney That the Rules of Procedure be suspended to consider the following motion, in order to allow the institution of interim control within a portion of the Glebe without delay. WHEREAS the City of Ottawa Zoning By-law No. 2008-250 controls the size of the building envelope for low-rise single detached and multi-unit dwellings, but does not regulate the number of bedrooms in such dwellings; and WHEREAS on 12 July 2017 Council
Moved by Councillor M. Fleury
Carried
That the by-laws listed on the Agenda, under Motion to Introduce By-laws, Three Readings be read and passed; and That the by-law entitled “ A by-law of the City of Ottawa to establish interim control for lands within the Glebe,” as approved by Motion at this meeting, be read and passed.
Moved by Councillor A. Hubley, seconded by Councillor M. Qaqish
Carried
That the following by-law be read and passed: To confirm the proceedings of the Council meeting of August 23, 2017.
Moved by Councillor A. Hubley, seconded by Councillor M. Qaqish