Planning and Housing Committee

Minutes

Meeting #:
38
Date:
Time:
-
Location:
Champlain Room, 110 Laurier Avenue West, and by electronic participation
Present:
  • Chair: Councillor Jeff Leiper, 
  • Vice-chair: Councillor Glen Gower, 
  • Councillor Riley Brockington, 
  • Councillor Cathy Curry, 
  • Councillor Laura Dudas, 
  • Councillor Laine Johnson, 
  • Councillor Theresa Kavanagh, 
  • Councillor Clarke Kelly, 
  • Councillor Catherine Kitts, 
  • Councillor Wilson Lo, 
  • Councillor Tim Tierney, 
  • and Councillor Ariel Troster 

1.
Notices and meeting information for meeting participants and the public

This item has attachments. 
1.Public Notices English - Hybrid Standing Committee.pdf
2.Public Notices French - Hybrid Standing Committee.pdf

Notices and meeting information are attached to the agenda and minutes, including: availability of simultaneous interpretation and accessibility accommodations; in camera meeting procedures; information items not subject to discussion; personal information disclaimer for correspondents and public speakers; notices regarding minutes; and remote participation details.


Accessible formats and communication supports are available, upon request.


Except where otherwise indicated, reports requiring Council consideration will be presented to Council on Wednesday, November 27, 2024, in Planning and Housing Committee Report 38.


The deadline to register by phone to speak or submit written comments or visual presentations is 4 pm on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, and the deadline to register by email to speak is 8:30 am on Wednesday, November 20, 2024.

These “Summary Minutes” indicate the disposition of items and actions taken at the meeting. This document does not include all of the text that will be included in the full Minutes, such as the record of written and oral submissions. Recorded votes and dissents contained in the Summary Minutes are draft until the full Minutes of the meeting are confirmed by the Committee. The draft of the full Minutes (for confirmation) will be published with the agenda for the next regular Committee meeting and, once confirmed, will replace this document. 

2.
Declarations of Interest

 

No Declarations of Interest were filed.

3.
Confirmation of Minutes

 

4.
Planning, Development and Building Services Department

 

4.1
Development Charges – Reimposition of Corporate Studies Development Charge

This item has attachments. 
1.ACS2024-PDB-GEN-0011 - Development Charges – Reimposition of Corporate Studies Development Charge.pdf
2.Document 1 - 2024-218 Corporate Studies Amendment Five.pdf

File No. ACS2024-PDB-GEN-0011 – Citywide

  • Report Recommendation(s)

    That Planning and Housing Committee recommend Council approve the enactment of the amendment to the Development Charges By-law 2024-218 attached as Document 1.

    Carried

5.
Finance Services Department

 

5.1
2025 Draft Operating and Capital Budget – Planning and Housing Committee

This item has attachments. 
1.Report (EN) - 2025 Draft Operating and Capital Budgets.pdf
2.Full Budget Book - (Post Tabling) - Planning and Housing Committee.pdf
3.Condensed Book (EN) - (Post Tabling) - Planning and Housing Committee.pdf
4.Document 1 (EN) - 2025 Draft Budget Operating Summaries.pdf
5.Document 2 (EN) - 2025 Draft Capital Budget Summaries.pdf
6.Document 3 (EN) - 2025 Draft Budget Capital Transit Adjustments.pdf
7.Document 4 (EN) - Multi Year Budget.pdf
8.Document 5 (EN) - Budget Document Guide.pdf
9.Document 6 (EN) - Continuous Improvements List.pdf
10.Document 7 (EN) - 2025 Draft Budget – Investing in what matters, fighting for affordability EN.pdf
11.Report (FR) - 2025 Draft Operating and Capital Budgets.pdf
12.Condensed Book (FR) - (Post Tabling) - Planning and Housing Committee.pdf
13.Document 1 (FR) - Sommaires du budget fonctionnement provisoire 2025.pdf
14.Document 2 (FR) - Résumés du budget d'immobilisation 2025.pdf
15.Document 3 (FR) - Rajustements du budget provisoire des immobilisations du transport en commun de 2025.pdf
16.Document 4 (FR) - Budget pluriannuel.pdf
17.Document 5 (FR) - Lignes directrices concernant le budget.pdf
18.Document 6 (FR) - Liste des améliorations continues.pdf
19.Document 7 (FR) - Livret du budget préliminaire de 2025.pdf

File No. ACS2024-FCS-FSP-0017 - Citywide

The draft budget was tabled at the Council meeting of November 13, 2024. The Planning and Housing Committee report on the draft budget will be considered by Council at its meeting of December 11, 2024.

Direction to staff

Councillor T. Kavanagh (on behalf of S. Menard)

That staff be directed to explore the ‘public builder model’ of affordable housing provision alongside other alternative approaches to accelerating and making more efficient the production of affordable housing, including through new partnership models, innovative building techniques and financing approaches, and in consideration of a potential role for the City, Build Ottawa and OCHC, and report back by Q4 2025.

  • Report Recommendation(s)

    That the Planning and Housing Committee consider the relevant portions of the 2025 Operating and Capital Budgets and make recommendations to Council sitting in Committee of the Whole to be held December 11, 2024.

    Carried as amended
  • Amendment:
    Motion No. PHC2024-38-01
    Moved byG. Gower

    WHEREAS, on November 13, 2024, Council received and tabled the 2025 Draft Capital and Operating Budget (ACS2024-FCS-FSP-0017) and associated Committee budget books; and 

    WHEREAS it was discovered that corrections were required in the Planning Committee Draft 2025 Budget document tabled with Council specific to Affordable Housing; and 

    WHEREAS Finance and Corporate Services has subsequently issued a revised Planning Committee Draft 2024 Budget, which includes the following correction:

    Service Area – Affordable Housing

      • English Full Book (Page 32 and 48-50 and 55)
      • English Condensed Book (Page 32)
      • French Condensed Book (Page 39)

    Correction/Update – The update is to revise the budget request for 911160 for approved VUT impacts

    THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Planning and Housing Committee receive and consider the revised Planning and Housing Committee Draft 2025 Budget document.

    Carried
  • Amendment:
    Motion No. PHC2024-38-02
    Moved byL. Johnson

    WHEREAS existing capital resources within the City of Ottawa’s affordable housing budget envelopes are focused on the delivery of new affordable housing development, and

    WHEREAS affordable housing asset preservation is a stated objective within the community’s 10 Year 2020-2030 Housing and Homelessness Plan, and

    WHEREAS the acquisition of existing affordable housing assets, and their subsequent transfer to non-market operators, can both prevent evictions among at-risk tenants and secure affordability in perpetuity within the community-owned housing stock, and

    WHEREAS the Director of Housing Services already has delegated authority to execute acquisitions and already does so on a case-by-case basis;

    WHEREAS a federal acquisition fund, following from a federal Budget 2024 announcement, may be forthcoming, and 

    WHEREAS funding may flow more quickly to jurisdictions that demonstrate readiness, and

    WHEREAS the current projection for revenues from the Vacant Unit Tax in 2025 is $12.9 million, but could be higher given the revenue earned in earlier years,  

    THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that to maximize readiness and expedite the disbursement of any new acquisitions funding, that 50% of revenue from the Vacant Unit Tax above that forecast in the Long Range Financial Plan for Housing be allocated to an affordable housing Acquisition Fund.

    For (4)J. Leiper, R. Brockington, L. Johnson, and A. Troster
    Against (8)L. Dudas, G. Gower, T. Kavanagh, T. Tierney, C. Kitts, C. Curry, C. Kelly, and W. Lo
    Lost (4 to 8)
  • Amendment:
    Motion No. PHC2024-38-03
    Moved byA. Troster

    WHEREAS the land transfer tax is payable to the province on the close of any land acquisition in the province of Ontario unless said transaction is deemed exempt under the provisions of the Land Transfer Tax;

    WHEREAS the provincial land transfer tax is identified as a potential barrier to non-profit multi-residential acquisitions in the Alliance to End Homelessness report; and

    WHEREAS the Province of Ontario has the sole ability to modify the Land Transfer tax Act to create exemption classes of transaction.

    THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor write to the Minister for Municipal Affairs and Housing and the Premier of Ontario to request that multi-residential property acquisitions by a non-profit housing provider be deemed exempt from payment of the Land Transfer Tax; and

    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor include in this request that municipalities purchasing lands on behalf of a non-profit housing provider for the purposes of either affordable residential construction or housing loss prevention also be deemed exempt from payment of the Land Transfer Tax.

    Carried
  • Motion No. PHC2024-38-04
    Moved byG. Gower

    That Planning and Housing Committee recommend that Council, sitting as Committee of the Whole, approve the Planning and Housing Committee 2025 Draft Operating and Capital Budget as follows:

    1. The Planning, Development and Building Services Department Operating Budget, as follows:
      1. General Manager’s Office, and Business and Technical Support Services Operating Resource Requirement (page 2)
      2. Right of Way, Heritage and Urban Design Services:
        1. User Fees (pages 6-10);
        2. Operating Resource Requirement (page 4-5);
      3. Planning Services:
        1. User Fees (pages 13-19);
        2. Operating Resource Requirement (page 12);
      4. Building Code Services: 
        1. User Fees (pages 22-29);
        2. Operating Resource Requirement (page 21); 
    2. Strategic Initiatives Department, Affordable Housing Development Operating Resource Requirement (page 31). 
    3. The Planning Committee Capital Budget (revised page 32), with individual projects listed on revised pages 48-50 (Housing Services), and 51-54. (Planning and Development).
    Carried

6.
In Camera Items

 

There were no in camera items.

7.
Information Previously Distributed

 

8.
Notices of Motions (For Consideration at Subsequent Meeting)

 

There were no Notices of Motion.

9.
Inquiries

 

There were no Inquiries.

10.
Other Business

 

There was no other business.

11.
Adjournment

 

Next Meeting


Wednesday, December 4, 2024.

The meeting adjourned at 12:02 pm.

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