Planning and Housing Committee

WHEREAS report ACS2023-PRE-PS-0049 seeks a zoning by-law amendment approval to permit a 26-unit, low-rise apartment building with site-specific exceptions; and WHEREAS a technical amendment has been requested from the project architects to slightly increase the maximum height in Document 2 of the report. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that, with respect to report ACS2023-PRE-PS-0049, Planning and Housing Committee amend Document 2 by: Increasing the maximum building height from 11.4 metres to 11.6 metres in Section 2(b)(i) Adding “ maximum number of dwelling units: 26 ” as Section 2(b)(vii) BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that pursuant to subsection 34(17) of the Planning Act , no further notice be given.

WHEREAS report ACS2023-PRE-EDP-0006 included direction

WHEREAS when report ACS2023-PRE-PS-0049 was published with the meeting agenda on April 21, 2023 Document 1 – Our City Starts with Home: Scaling Up Non-profit Housing in Ottawa inadvertently was missing the page containing the Land Acknowledgement (page 2); and WHEREAS a revised report has been provided to committee and the remainder of the report is unchanged;. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Planning and Housing Committee receive and replace Document 1 with the revised Document 1, on file with the Office of the City Clerk.

WHEREAS the City of Ottawa vacancy rate was at 2.2% in October 2022; and WHEREAS the City of Ottawa has an established 10-Year Housing and Homelessness Plan for 2020-2030; and WHEREAS The Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa has presented its report titled “Our City Starts with Home: Scaling Up Non-Profit Housing in Ottawa” to the Planning and Housing Committee; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT staff receive the Alliance to End Homelessness report and consider its recommendations when identifying programs and initiatives for the City’s forthcoming submission to the federal Housing Accelerator Fund, when refreshing the 10 Year Housing and Homelessness Plan and when planning other initiatives in support of the Municipal Housing Pledge.

That the following motion be added for consideration as an additional item at the May 3, 2023 meeting of Planning and Housing Committee, pursuant to Subsection 89 (3) of the Procedure By-law. WHEREAS a Site Plan Control application for 4 Campbell Reid Court, to permit an Animal Hospital on the existing lot, was deemed complete on October 24, 2022, prior to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing issuing a Notice of Decision to approve the City’s New Official Plan on November 4, 2022; and WHEREAS the subject lands were not identified as Urban Expansion Area on Schedule C17 in the Council adopted Official Plan, but were subsequently included in the Category 1- Future Neighbourhood Overlay Urban Expansion Areas on Schedule C17 with Ministerial approval of the Official Plan; and WHEREAS policy 5.6.2.1 1) of the approved Official Plan states “Development may only receive draft approval or final approval on land within the Future Neighbourhoods Overlay once the overlay has been removed through an Official Plan amendment. Removal of the overlay can only occur once the policies of this section have been satisfied.”; and WHEREAS the normal business process for Site Plan review is to determine whether a Minor Variance application(s) are required to support a development only after a preliminary circulation of the site plan is completed; and THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT City Council direct staff to: 1. Examine the unique circumstances surrounding the Site Plan Control applicatio