Planning and Housing Committee

WHEREAS Report ACS2023-PRE-PS-0129 (the “Report”) recommends amending the City of Ottawa’s Zoning By-law(2008-250) to permit a “heavy equipment and vehicle sales, rental and servicing” use; and WHEREAS Document 2 – the details of recommended zoning does not explicitly indicate the zoning change requested; and THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Planning and Housing Committee Amend the report to include in document 2 an item stating “Rezone the lands shown in Document 1 from IP13 to IP13[XXXX].”; and THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there be no further notice pursuant to Section 34(17) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13, as amended.

WHEREAS Report ACS2023-PRE-PS-0116 (the ‘Report’) recommends amending the City of Ottawa’s Zoning By-law to permit a four-storey apartment building at 222 Baseline Road; WHEREAS Document 2 indicates in Column 4, Section 2.b), that the site-specific exception would prohibit low-rise apartment dwellings of 10 units or less; and WHEREAS the intent of Document 2 was to ensure that low-rise apartment dwellings must have more than 10 dwelling units; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Document 2 be amended to move Section 2.b) from Column 4 to Column 5; and THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the Report be amended by replacing the text in Document 2, Section 2.b) with “a low rise apartment dwelling must have a minimum of 11 dwelling units”; and THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there be no further notice pursuant to Section 34(17) of the Planning Act .

WHEREAS Cash-in-Lieu of Parkland (CIL) funds are collected as the payment of funds equivalent to the value of the amount of land that the City would otherwise have been entitled to require to be conveyed for park purposes as part of a development; and WHEREAS the City is not meeting its approved parkland target inside the greenbelt, and the Parks and Recreation Masterplan notes that the Downtown Transect is the most underserved area from a parks and facilities perspective, and it is not recommended that CIL be waived or reduced as part report ACS2023-PRE-GEN-0010; and WHEREAS it would be possible under Exemptions Section 11 (2)(l) of the Parkland Dedication Bylaw for the City to forgo collection of CIL funds as part of a negotiation with the applicant for an alternative public benefit in partnership with the City; and WHEREAS Ward 14 includes downtown, with the most amount of office vacancies in the city, and the Ward Councillor has indicated support for a pilot that would forgo in part CIL; and WHEREAS there are transit and economic development benefits to facilitating rapid conversions of office to residential in downtown core to add more supply of housing to meet the City’s Housing Pledge and Housing Accelerator Fund targets; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that staff be directed to implement a Financial Incentive Pilot Program for Office-to-Residential conversions with the following parameters: That Staff be delegated authority, for office to residential conversion projects, to