City Council

That report from the Ottawa Community Lands Development Corporation entitled “ Ottawa Community Lands Development Corporation 2020 ‑ Annual Report”; the report from the Ottawa Public Library Board entitled “ Ādisōke – Project Update and Funding Strategy ”; Joint Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee and Planning Committee Report 5; Community and Protective Services Committee Report 22 ; Standing Committee on Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Water Report 19; Finance and Economic Development Committee Report 30; Transit Commission Reports 14 and 14 A; a nd the report from the City Clerk entitled “ Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions for Items Subject to the Planning Act ‘Explanation Requirements’ at the City Council Meeting of October 13, 2021 ” be received and considered.

Councillor R. King WHEREAS the report for the New Official Plan (ACS2021-PIE-EDP-0036) presents the details of the new Official Plan Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Secondary Plans and Area-Specific Policies), as well as supporting documents and annexes, with the objective to guide planning for the city’s growth and redevelopment over the next 25 years; and WHEREAS on January 25, 2021, at a joint meeting of the Planning Committee and Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, the committees reviewed a staff recommendation to identify and add an additional 270 ha to the urban boundary; and WHEREAS Council decided to remove the 173.35 ha South March lands and combine with the 270 ha land still to be identified to form 445.35 ha of lands known as the Tewin lands, against City staff recommendations; and WHEREAS the City’s planning staff did not identify the Tewin lands as those that should be included in the first tranche of lands to be included in the necessary 1,011 ha to be added to the urban boundary, and have identified concerns about the developability of the lands as well as servicing and transit challenges; and, WHEREAS the City of Ottawa has declared a climate emergency and there was limited investigation into the climate impacts of approving a development project far from existing urban areas; and WHEREAS there was limited assessment of the costs to the city relating to the capital, operational and lifecycle costs of new infrastructure that will be required to service the proposed

Councillor S. Moffatt WHEREAS there may be site-specific circumstances that should be examined through the application process to consider the permission for small-scale non-residential uses within Neighbourhoods; and WHEREAS Policy 6.3.3(3) of the Official Plan addresses situations where such uses are not permitted as-of-right; and WHEREAS it is more appropriate for the Official Plan to avoid anticipating the City’s position for each such application; THEREFORE IT BE RESOLVED that Council amend policy 6.3.3(3), as amended, as contained on page 173, by deleting the words “shall support” and substituting with words “will consider permitting”.

Councillor M. Fleury WHEREAS at the Joint Meeting of Planning Committee and the Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee held on October 14, 15, and 18, 2021, the Committees approved the forwarding to City Council for its consideration Document 9 from that meeting, being the New Official Plan Volume 2 (Secondary Plans and Area-Specific Policies); and WHEREAS Volume 2A (Urban Secondary Plans) includes the final draft version of a revised Rockcliffe Park Secondary Plan (RP SP) proposed to be adopted by Council in tandem with Council’s adoption of the New Official Plan; and WHEREAS members of the Rockcliffe Park community believe that the RP SP would benefit from additional minor edits to bring clarity to the policy language of the RP SP that is consistent with the intent of the Staff revisions to the RP SP while at the same time remaining complementary to the desirable policy aspects of the existing Rockcliffe Park Heritage Conservation District Plan; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Council approve the following minor changes to the RP SP included in Volume 2A of the New Official Plan, as follows: In Section 2.1 of the RP SP, A Stable Population, delete the final phrase “and coach houses” In Section 2.2 of the RP SP, Conserving the Character of Rockcliffe Park, add policies 9), 10) and 11) as follows: “9) Adjacent lands include lands adjoining a property in Rockcliffe Park and lands that are separated from it by land used as a private or public road, lane, trail, right of way, walkw

Councillor S. Moffatt WHEREAS potential future residential development in the Carp Airport Area should not prevent or negatively impact future development potential within the Village of Carp; and WHEREAS a Local Plan or an amendment to this Area-Specific Policy would adequately safeguard the servicing intended for future development in the Village of Carp; and WHEREAS existing development rights should be protected and

Councillor E. El-Chantiry WHEREAS sensitive marine clay (otherwise known as Leda clay, quick clay, or Champlain Sea clay) are characterized as highly sensitive deposits of silt and clay, which are susceptible to retrogressive slope failures, erosion or subsidence; and WHEREAS sensitive marine clays exhibit significantly reduced strength compared to other soils once disturbed through mechanisms such as loading, excavation, seismicity, erosion or changes in groundwater levels; and WHEREAS development on marine clays may also interfere with local hydrogeologic regimes resulting in poor foundation drainage (reliance and potential interference with sump pumps) and potential structural problems; and WHEREAS sensitive marine clays, due to its unique geological history, are found widely throughout the City of Ottawa including most urban expansion areas; and WHEREAS damage has occurred to foundations and structures in some existing development areas of the City as a result of differential settlement in sensitive marine clays; and WHEREAS Ottawa is in a unique geological area due to the presence of deposits from the post-glacial Champlain Sea, which poses particular challenges when developing on sensitive marine clays; and WHEREAS the City’s existing geotechnical reporting guidelines do not sufficiently address the challenges of characterizing and engineering development on sensitive marine clays; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Council direct Staff to review, update and/or make recommen

Councillor T. Kavanagh WHEREAS the draft Official Plan policies accommodate future growth of the City of Ottawa through both residential intensification and urban expansion; WHEREAS the physical transformations resulting from intensification vary from neighbourhood to neighbourhood; WHEREAS the application of OP policies to accommodate intensification by protecting tree canopy, access to greenspace, etc., is on a city-wide basis; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that City Council direct staff to develop, as part of the Official Plan monitoring process, metrics to measure intensification, tree canopy, access to greenspace, at a sub-Transect level, both including and excluding the greenbelt where applicable.

Councillor M. Fleury WHEREAS Capital Ward has three universities either partially or fully located within its boundaries; and WHEREAS this density of Post-Secondary institutions has driven the supply of low rise development oriented to university housing in the ward, especially in the area surrounding Carleton University; and WHEREAS a specific site plan control process could proactively address aspects of parking, noise, privacy concerns, waste and recycling for the areas around all Post-Secondary institutions; and WHEREAS such a process could proactively save the City a significant amount of time and resources that have been expended to otherwise manage longstanding concerns on site and can be better mitigated through the site plan control process; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Council direct Staff to add as a departmental work item to explore the feasibility of developing a Low-Rise Apartment Specific Site Plan process for the area surrounding Post-Secondary institutions, to address some of the neighbouring resident’s developmental concerns.

Councillor L. Dudas WHEREAS the world of industry and business is rapidly evolving with changes in technology and business models; and WHEREAS the success of growth in the future of Ottawa depends on attracting leading businesses to create jobs to support the growing population, and per Policy 1.1.2 of the Provincial Policy Statement allows municipalities to protect employment lands regardless of the planning horizon; and WHEREAS Policy 1.3.2.6 of the Provincial Policy Statement requires municipalities to protect employment areas in proximity to major goods movement facilities and corridors for employment uses that require these locations; and WHEREAS transportation access remains a critical need of many businesses choosing their new locations; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Council direct Staff, as part of the five year review of population growth and land need, to also look at the absorption of serviced industrial and logistics lands at all highway interchanges and, should this inventory decline significantly, make recommendations to Council regarding the designation of additional industrial and logistics lands at highway interchanges, including the consideration of servicing options at these locations.

WHEREAS the report for the New Official Plan (ACS2021-PIE-EDP-0036) presents the details of the new Official Plan Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Secondary Plans and Area-Specific Policies), as well as supporting documents and annexes, with the objective to guide planning for the city’s growth and redevelopment over the next 25 years; and WHEREAS omissions and corrections for the New Official Plan Report have been identified since it was published on September 22, 2021, and revised at Joint Committee on October 18, 2021; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Council approve the new Official Plan modifications listed in Document 13 [1] .

WHEREAS the report for the New Official Plan (ACS2021-PIE-EDP-0036) was considered by the Joint Meeting of the Planning Committee and the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee on October 14, 15 and 18, 2021, and presented to Council for consideration on October 27, 2021; WHEREAS the New Official Plan, as amended by Joint Committee and Council, meets all the Planning Act requirements; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Council approve th at the Official Plan, as amended: (a) has regard to the matters of provincial interest listed in the Planning Act, section 2; and (b) is consistent with policy statements issued under the Planning Act, subsection 3 (1).

That City Council approve the following: The Guiding Council has set the following as its short-term outcomes: · Increase the range of responses to mental health and addiction crises including community, service providers, and public service responses resulting in a decrease in the response of police · Provide clarity to the roles and responsibilities of Ottawa police within the new models of response to crisis intervention in the community · Working with Ottawa communities, identify training, education and skills required by the Ottawa Police Service to better respond to mental health and addiction crises, in a respectful and safe manner and when the crisis is linked to criminal activity as required

WHEREAS the report entitled “Social Assistance Modernization, Transformation and Integration Update” (ACS2021-CSS-GEN-0014) was received by the Community and Protective Services Committee on October 21, 2021 and will be received by Council October 27, 2021; and WHEREAS following the Community and Protective Services Committee meeting, staff identified an error in the Discussion Section of the report (Section 3 - Employment Services Transformation, Page 14 of the original English and Page 16 of the original French version of the staff report) concerning the 2021 Ontario Works Financial Assistance budget amount documented as $137 million; and WHEREAS the correct 2021 Ontario Work Financial Assistance budget amount is $182 million; THEREFORE Be It Resolved that Council approve a technical amendment to the report to reflect the correct 2021 budget amount of $182 million for Ontario Work Financial Assistance

That report from the Ottawa Community Lands Development Corporation entitled “Ottawa Community Lands Development Corporation 2020 Annual Report”; the report from the Ottawa Public Library Board entitled “Ādisōke – Project Update and Funding Strategy”; Joint Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee and Planning Committee Report 5; Community and Protective Services Committee Report 22; Standing Committee on Environmental Protection, Water and Waste Water Report 19; Finance and Economic Development Committee Report 30; Transit Commission Reports 14 and 14A; and the report from the City Clerk entitled “Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions for Items Subject to the Planning Act ‘Explanation Requirements’ at the City Council Meeting of October 13, 2021” be received and adopted as amended.

WHEREAS City staff were already planning on providing an update on the construction timelines for the Trillium Line Stage 2 at the December Finance and Economic Development Committee Meeting; and WHEREAS questions related to differences in technology between the Confederation Line and the Trillium Line have been raised by Members of Council in many of the previous briefings on this topic; and WHEREAS the approach to construction oversight of the Trillium Line includes a dedicated construction monitoring team co-located with the Contractor in the field which is substantially different than the Stage 1 approach to construction oversight; and, WHEREAS understanding that staff supports the notion of a peer review or similar mechanism as part of its due diligence exercise to ensure that the Trillium Line does not experience the same issues as the Stage 1 Confederation Line, but needs some time to properly assess and craft the scope of work for a peer review to otherwise protect the City’s interests; and WHEREAS staff advise that referring this motion to the December meeting of the Finance and Economic Development Committee would not significantly impact the timing of the work being proposed, particularly given the existing quality assurance mechanisms already in place; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that City Council refer the Meehan/Deans motion to the December meeting of the Finance and Economic Development Committee and direct the Director, Rail Construction to provide a memorandum t

That the by-laws listed on the Agenda under Motion to Introduce By-laws, Three Readings, be read and passed

That the following by-law be read and passed: To confirm the proceedings of the Council meeting of October 27, 2021.