City Council

That the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee Report 12, Built Heritage Committee Report 13, Finance and Corporate Services Committee Report 13A, Planning and Housing Committee Report 25, Transit Commission Report 12, and the reports from the City Clerk entitled “Status Update – Council Inquiries and Motions for the period ending April 12, 2024” and “Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions for Items Subject to the Planning Act ‘Explanation Requirements’ at the City Council Meeting of April 3, 2024” be received and considered.

WHEREAS the report for the Brownfields Redevelopment Community Improvement Plan Bylaw (ACS2024-PRE-PS-0053) was considered by Finance and Corporate Services Committee on April 2, 2024; and, WHEREAS the report stipulates that a brownfields application associated with a proposal requiring site plan control approval cannot be deemed complete, until the site plan control approval application is deemed complete; and WHEREAS the report provides for eligibility requirements that a building permit be issued within 18 months of Council approval of the brownfields application; and, WHEREAS concerns have been raised that 18 months from Council approval may not provide adequate time to undertake required remediation activities related to groundwater remediation or a risk assessment approach; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that with respect to Item 14.5, Motion – Brownfield Redevelopment Community Improvement Plan, that the final bullet in Committee Recommendation 1 be amended to read as follows: Any funding approval will become null and void if a building or excavation permit is not issued within 18 months post Council approval of the brownfields application. THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, with respect to Item 14.6, Brownfields Redevelopment Community Improvement Plan By-law, that Attachment 1, Part II be modified as follows: Program Eligibility Requirements 5. Any brownfields funding approval will become null and void if the development is not issued a building or excavation permit within

WHEREAS the 2023-2026 term of council priorities Strategic objective 1 states: increase housing options including below market and deeply affordable near transit, leverage City land and seek sustainable funding; and WHEREAS Council approved the Integrated Transition to housing Strategy in 2023 that outlines short, medium and long-term initiatives to assist single adults experiencing homelessness to transition to housing while addressing immediate pressures in the shelter system; and WHEREAS the City’s 2024 Budget committed $5 million operating funding towards this strategy to support those in the most immediate need of housing including those living in community centres and shelters; and WHEREAS Staff and City resources are finite and it that expediting the work

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Rules of Procedure be suspended to permit the receipt of a briefing from the City Manager with respect to the organizational alignment of the City of Ottawa; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that City Council resolve In Camera pursuant to the Procedure By-law 2022-410, Subsections 13.(1)(b) personal matters about an identifiable individual, including staff; 13.(1)(d) labour relations or employee negotiations, in order to receive a briefing from the City Manager with respect to the City’s organizational alignment.

WHEREAS in recent years, there has been an increase in the number of laneway plow and snow clearing services in Ottawa; and WHEREAS these private operators have a significant number of resources, both in terms of personnel and equipment and frequently arrive on residential streets significantly before municipal street plows arrive and often have “dead time” that could be applied more productively to street clearing if there were a policy to accommodate such activities; and WHEREAS this discrepancy between arrival times is particularly acute in rural villages, but is also observed city-wide; and WHEREAS a public partnership could be explored that would see the City provide compensation to private laneway clearing vehicles for complementing municipal plows by assisting with clearing portions of the winter road maintenance schedule on residential roads prior to when municipal plows are able to attend a given beat; and WHEREAS this may reduce costs and improve service delivery times, reducing stress on some municipal resources. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Roads and Parking Services staff perform a municipal scan in Canada, or other comparable jurisdictions, to determine if public partnerships involving private laneway clearing vehicles complementing municipal plows have been explored; and THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that if such a partnership is determined to have been explored, staff identify what the lessons learned are; and THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that staff complete an intern

That the Rules of Procedure be suspended to consider the following Motion: WHEREAS The Orléans Poutinefest & Street Food Festival is an outdoor festival promoting traditional, gourmet, exotic and different worlds of poutine and street foods featuring multiple food vendors, musicians and a craft beer garden; and WHEREAS The Orléans Poutinefest & Street Food Festival is to occur on Friday, May 3, 2024 through Sunday, May 5, 2024; and WHEREAS Centrum Boulevard from Brisebois Crescent to Prestone Drive is required to be closed to accommodate the festival and on-street festival set-up; and WHEREAS the on-street festival set-up will commence at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 2, 2024 and the festival will begin operation at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, May 3, 2024; and WHEREAS the on-street festival take-down will commence at 7:00 a.m. on Monday, May 6, 2024 and continue until 12 p.m. noon on Monday, May 6, 2024. WHEREAS the City of Ottawa’s Special Events on City Streets By-law (2001-260) prohibits road closures before 6:00 p.m. Monday to Friday; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Council approve the road closure for Centrum Boulevard from Brisebois Crescent to Prestone Drive from 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 2, 2024 to 12 p.m. noon on Monday, May 6, 2024 for the Orléans Poutinefest & Street Food Festival, providing it meets the requirements, conditions and approval of Special Events Advisory Team (SEAT).

That the proceedings of the City Council meeting of April 17, 2024 be adjourned.