Planning Committee

WHEREAS the Province has announced grants to the City of Ottawa transit capital program in respect of an extension of the O-Train Extension-Confederation Line West-Bayshore to Moodie in the amount of $47 million and the LRT Maintenance Service Facilities-Moodie, Walkley and Belfast in the amount of $173.3 million; and WHEREAS changes to the Development Charges Amendment Background Study: Transit and Roads and Related Services are required, pursuant to the Development Charges Act , clause 5(1)2 to adjust for anticipated grants, subsidies and other contributions made to a municipality; and WHEREAS these changes do not have an impact on the calculated Public Transit development charge rates included in the proposed 2017 Development Charges By-law as they are with respect to capital projects to be included in the calculation of the future development charge in 2019; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Development Charges By-law Amendment 2017 report be amended by the addition of the following recommendations: 1. The Development Charges Amendment Background Study: Transit and Roads and Related Services be amended by the deletion of pages 77 to 83 inclusive and that such pages be replaced by Document 6 attached to this motion. 2. Document 6 be appended to the staff report in the Report from Planning Committee to Council; 3. Recommendation 1 be amended to read: The City of Ottawa Development Charges Amendment Background Study: Public Transit and Roads and Related Services dated March

WHEREAS Report ACS2017-PIE-PS-0058 recommends an Official Plan change to allow habitable space on the ground level of a coach house in the urban area where a two-storey coach house is permitted by way of a Committee of Adjustment minor variance application; and WHEREAS. based on filed correspondence with the Planning Committee, it has been brought to Planning Staff’s attention that there exists an error in the proposed Official Plan policy wording which removes a garage as a required component of any permitted two-storey coach house in the urban area; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Planning Committee recommend Council approve: 1. the following changes be made to the staff report: a) Amend Document 1 – Official Plan Amendment, by adding and deleting the following text in Section 3.1 (1) (i): “ An application to allow a height of up to two storeys through a minor variance may be considered where, in addition in accordance with to the considerations noted in h. above, only where the coach house contains a garage within its footprint the coach house is proposed to contain all of its habitable space above a garage. ”; and 2. there be no further notice pursuant to Subsection 34 (17) of the Planning Act .

That the item be deferred to the Planning Committee meeting of June 13, 2017.

That the Planning Committee approve the addition of the following item for consideration by the committee at today’s meeting, pursuant to section 89. (3) of Procedure By-law 2016-377, in order to allow for timely discussion.

WHEREAS the City views the new Ottawa Hospital Civic campus as essential community service and a very important city-building project; and WHEREAS the National Capital Commission (NCC) recently amended the federal land use planning framework to permit a hospital on federal lands on the south side of Carling Avenue at the north east corner of the Central Experimental Farm after an extensive process of public engagement and a federal decision to offer the site; and WHEREAS the City provided input through the federal process with respect to the Ottawa Hospital’s new site, providing information on the applicable plans and policies, municipal sewer and water servicing information, transportation capacity and environmental and heritage information; and WHEREAS there is a need for the City to bring its Official Plan and Zoning By-law into alignment with the federal land use decision; and WHEREAS there are 5 different zones that apply to the site: one that already permits a hospital and two further zones permitting development, but not a hospital, (all three together comprising 67% of the lands designated for a hospital by the federal government); THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Committee direct staff to bring forward a City-initiated Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment to bring the City’s planning documents into alignment with the federal land use decision.