Planning Committee

G. Gower THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Recommendation 3 be revised to: “Request that Mayor Watson and the Co-Chairs of Planning Committee, on behalf of Council, make representations to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing detailing the City’s position, with a focus on: 1. Increasing provincial support for affordable housing and supportive housing. 2. Ensuring that meaningful public participation and engagement in the planning process is maintained. 3. Maintaining local context considerations, including the importance of heritage protections. 4. Maintaining equitable OLT appeal rights for residents and community groups.”

(on behalf of Councillor M. Fleury) WHEREAS the Province of Ontario’s released 55 recommendations through its the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force; and WHEREAS Recommendations 26 through 31 seek to “weed out” or “prevent appeals” the task force believes is aimed at delaying projects, WHEREAS the task force points to latest data from the Ontario Land Tribunal’s 2019-20 report states that there are more than 1,300 unresolved cases; and WHEREAS the National Capital Region’s latest growth population statistics show that it is the fourth fastest growing urban area in the Country; and WHEREAS Statistics Canada reports Ottawa’s 2021 population alone is now 1,488,307; and WHEREAS recommendation number 26 states the province should require appellants to promptly seek permission (“leave to appeal”) of the Tribunal and demonstrate that an appeal has merit, relying on evidence and expert reports, before it is accepted; and WHEREAS The City report states it has no concerns provided the province restore an office to advise community organizations or other stakeholders on the mechanics of filing a proper appeal; and WHEREAS the City further states Resources would also need to be provided to the Ontario Land Tribunal so that an expeditious review of the material providing on the “leave” application could be done and not cause delay; and WHEREAS recommendation 30 requests the province to provide funding to increase staffing (adjudicators and case managers), provide market-competitive

(on behalf of Councillor M. Fleury) WHEREAS the City of Ottawa is proud to be Canada’s Capital; and WHEREAS the City includes unique neighbourhood and villages; and WHERE AS communities evolve and needs change, and at times school properties being unused for educational purpose due to change in neighbourhood demographic; and WHEREAS many public lands are vacant and offer development opportunities; and WHEREAS the City has not signified the City’s objective for the development of these Federal, Provincial, Crown agencies and City public lands; and WHEREAS these lands should be considered in a complete community lens ahead of development and redevelopment; and WHEREAS the City has unique opportunity to ensure that publicly owned land meet the introducing a full range of affordability and increase the number of rental housing stock WHEREAS the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force mandate was to explore measures to address housing needs; and WHEREAS government-owned land was outside the mandate, but many stakeholders noted the value of surplus or underused public land and land associated with major transit investments in finding housing solutions; and WHEREAS several stakeholders on the task force raised issues that they believed to have merit in further consideration; and WHEREAS in Ottawa there are a number of vacant lands to be considered as underused including but not limited to Federal vacant lands such as former Canada Post offices, MTO/417 lands no longer being used fo

(on behalf of Councillor M. Fleury) WHEREAS Ottawa is a city of neighbourhoods and Villages. WHEREAS Each of these neighbourhoods and Villages are unique, but many elements of the City’s neighbourhoods and Villages are similar and is what shapes our City WHEREAS the City’s Official Plan sets objectives to continue to ensure these neighbourhoods and villages thrive WHEREAS these objectives include intensification, 15-minute neighbourhoods, Climate Change-focused considerations and pedestrian and cycling friendly focused planning WHEREAS the Official Plan intends to improve sophistication in urban and community design for good urbanism at all scales, from the largest to the very small. WHEREAS the Province of Ontario’s released 55 recommendations through its the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force; and WHEREAS recommendations 12 through 15 inappropriately define the review process for a planning applications as “NIMBYism” and can “delay the process” and extend the costs for building, remove the community consultation and local municipal councillor input and authority; and WHEREAS in a City like Ottawa, in mature urban neighbourhoods a site plan requirement helps capture elements of design such as materials, lighting, parking, garbage storage, landscaping and privacy; and WHEREAS The City does not agree with a complete override of these tools people value; and WHEREAS the City’s new residential zoning intensifications such as R4 has expanded to much of the inner urban core;

(on behalf of Councillor M. Fleury) WHEREAS The Province of Ontario released its 55 recommendations through its the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force; and WHEREAS the mandate of the Task Force was to explore measures to address housing affordability; and WHEREAS the Housing Affordability Task Force recommends limiting exclusionary zoning in municipalities through binding provincial action including allowing as of right residential housing up to four units and up to four storeys on a single residential lot; WHEREAS this recommendation aims to address how Ontario can quickly create more housing supply by allowing more housing in more locations “as of right” (without the need for municipal approval) and make better use of transportation investments. WHEREAS this recommendation further aims to get more housing built in existing neighbourhoods more quickly than any other measure; and WHEREAS the City of Ottawa has currently grown and intensified the focus remains on the inner core of the City; and WHEREAS these intensification goals have pushed the limits of space, including green space WHEREAS use of lands and extended the urban landscape further east, west and south for up to four units and up to four storeys on a single residential lot should be considered; and WHEREAS this can be successfully achieved by extending the urban core intensification goals to align with the extension of the City’s Light Rail Transit Confederation line and the current expansion to Trim Road to

S. Moffatt WHEREAS the High Performance Development Standards respond to the policy direction in the New Official Plan; WHEREAS the High Performance Development Standards support Council-direction through the development and implementation of design metrics; and WHEREAS City owned infrastructure would be affected by the proposed metrics; and WHEREAS City Staff will review the wider implications of the proposed standards to existing and future City builds. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Asset Management Implications section of Report ACS2022-PIE-EDP-0005 be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following: The recommendations documented in this report are consistent with the City’s Comprehensive Asset Management (CAM) Program objectives . The implementation of the Comprehensive Asset Management program enables the City to effectively manage existing and new infrastructure to maximize benefits, reduce risk, and provide safe and reliable levels of service to community users. This is done in a socially, culturally, environmentally, and economically conscious manner. The recommendations documented in this report further the City’s climate change goals by improving energy performance in new builds. This may, however, come at an increased capital cost when the City/City partners build new buildings or expand existing ones, subject to applicability of Site Plan Control criteria. Staff will need to work together to assess the project-specific impacts and potential cost incre

S. Moffatt THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT That the Official Plan Amendment – Manor Park North and Manor Park South (Multiple Addresses) be

S. Moffatt WHEREAS Report ACS2022-PIE-PS-0016 includes a height schedule in Document 4; and WHEREAS the applicant is requesting to amend the northern setbacks of Tower B1 and its podium from 9.9 metres to 9.0 metres and from 7.9 metres to 7 metres, respectfully, to allow room for adjustment of the building envelope at the detail design stage; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the height schedule shown in Document 4 be replaced with the attached revised schedule. FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that there be no further notice pursuant to Section 34 (17) of the Planning Act.

S. Moffatt Motion No PLC 2022-58/10 BE IT RESOLVED that the meeting time be extended past 7:00 p.m. pursuant to Subsection 8(1)(c) of Procedure By-law (By-law No. 2021-24).

S. Moffatt WHEREAS Report ACS2022-PIE-PS-0023 recommends zoning changes to the lands known municipally as 879 River Road; AND WHEREAS through discussions with the applicant, it has been deemed advisable to make certain changes to the zoning provisions as it has been determined that the back-to-back townhouse units proposed in the draft approved subdivision are not able to conform to the zoning standards of the R4Z zone; AND WHEREAS separate zoning provisions are required to ensure that back-to-backs townhouses can be constructed as planned; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the following changes be made to the Report: 1. Replace Recommendation 1 with the following: That Planning Committee recommend Council approve an amendment to Zoning By-law 2008-250 for 879 River Road from Development Reserve (DR) to Residential Fourth Density (R4Z) and Residential Third Density, Subzone Z, Exception [2059] (R3Z [2059]), to permit low-rise residential development, as detailed in Document 2. 2. Replace Document 1 with the attached map [1] . 3. Replace Document 2 with the following: DETAILS OF RECOMMENDED ZONING DOCUMENT 2 Proposed Changes to the Comprehensive Zoning By-law 1. The Zoning Map of City of Ottawa Zoning By-law 2008-250 is amended by changing the zoning of the lands known municipally as 879 River Road from Development Reserve (DR) to Residential Fourth Density, Subzone Z, (R4Z) and Residential Third Density, Subzone Z, Exception [2059] (R3Z [2059]) THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED th

G. Gower WHEREAS recent amendments to the Development Charges Act requires municipalities to defer payment of development charges for uses including rental housing, institutional developments and not-for profit housing, pursuant to Section 26.1 of the Act; and WHEREAS Section 26.2 allows for Development Charge rates to be frozen at the time of site plan or rezoning application. In both cases, interest may be applied to offset the cost associated with the delay in collection of development charges to account for the funding gap between when services are required and the timing of the collection of revenues to fund growth-related infrastructure; WHEREAS the legislation allows municipalities to apply interest on the