Planning Committee

(on behalf of Councillor M. Taylor): WHEREAS the 2009 Development Charges By-law provided for the imposition of development charges for the growth-related capital costs for affordable housing and child care; AND WHEREAS the draft 2014 Development Charge Background Study does not currently provide for the imposition of development charges for affordable housing and child care; AND WHEREAS the City Clerk and Solicitor has provided an opinion to the effect that the City may impose such development charges where the growth-related capital costs are incurred by a third party authorized by the City; AND WHEREAS a supplemental development charge background study will be required to impose these development charges for these two areas with additional preliminary work being required with respect to child care; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Planning Committee recommend to Council that: 1. Staff be directed to prepare a supplemental development charge background study for affordable housing to be submitted to Planning Committee at the earliest possible opportunity. 2. Staff be directed to conduct a review of the municipal financing of child care focusing on how development charges could provide resources for growth-related capital costs with the outcome of the review to be reported to Committee and Council at the earliest possible opportunity. 3. There shall be ongoing community consultation led by the General Manager, Community and Social Services .

(on behalf of Councillor S. Qadri): WHEREAS Vic Whittaker has been a prominent individual in Ottawa’s land planning, development, and residential building community for over five decades; AND WHEREAS he is well-known for his career in land development with Campeau Corporation, Whittaker Consultants Limited and has been a past president of the Ottawa Homebuilders Association; AND WHEREAS Mr. Whittaker has been involved in many community initiatives and civic projects throughout the years in Ottawa, as well as in the United States and Europe; AND WHEREAS he has represented Ottawa on the international level by leading work on commercial development in France in 1969 and was an integral part of the Ottawa delegation to China and the Capital City of Beijing in 1998; AND WHEREAS at the local level Mr. Whittaker, working with Monarch Homes, has been instrumental in the planning process for one of the City’s premier residential golf course communities, Stonebridge; AND WHEREAS he has been a very active member of the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa over a span of 40 years and has contributed to successful fundraisers for CHEO, Queensway Carleton Hospital, Ottawa Civic Hospital, and the Ottawa Heart Institute; AND WHEREAS the name Vic Whittaker has been vetted through 9-1-1 Emergency Response and does not pose any concerns with name duplication; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Planning Committee recommend City Council recognize Vic Whittaker’s contributions to the City of Ottawa by naming the