Public Works and Infrastructure Committee

Minutes

Meeting #:

23

Date:

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Time:

9:30 A.m. - 4:30 P.m.

Location:

Champlain Room, 110 Laurier Avenue West, and by electronic participation

Present:

• Chair: Councillor Tim Tierney, 
• Vice-Chair: Councillor Catherine Kitts, 
• Councillor Jessica Bradley, 
• Councillor Steve Desroches, 
• Councillor Sean Devine, 
• Councillor Laura Dudas, 
• Councillor Glen Gower, 
• Councillor Laine Johnson, 
• Councillor Wilson Lo, 
• Councillor Matt Luloff, 
• Councillor Ariel Troster, 
• and Isabelle Skalski 

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1.

Notices and meeting information for meeting participants and the public

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 hybrid 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, December 10, 2025 in Public Works and Infrastructure Committee Report 23.

The deadline to register by phone to speak, or submit written comments or visual presentations is 4 pm on November 26, 2025, and the deadline to register to speak by email is 8:30 am on November 27, 2025.

2.

Declarations of Interest

No Declarations of Interest were filed.

3.

Confirmation of Minutes

3.1

PWIC Minutes 22 – October 23, 2025

• Carried

4.

Responses to Inquiries

4.1

PWIC-2025-03 - Tools Available for Regulating the Hauling of Fill and Road Impacts

A motion to lift the response to inquiries listed on the agenda as item 4.1 was moved by Vice-Chair C. Kitts:

• Motion No. PWIC 2025-23-01
  Moved by C. Kitts

  BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee approve that the following Inquiry Response be lifted for discussion by the committee at today’s meeting, pursuant to subsection 89(4) of the Procedure By-law (being By-law NO 2025-100):

  • PWIC-2025-03

  Carried
• Motion No. PWIC 2025-23-02
  Moved by C. Kitts

  WHEREAS some communities, including those who have a significant amount of new greenfield housing development have experienced road infrastructure degra-dation caused by heavy vehicles hauling fill between a development or construc-tion site and designated truck routes;

  AND WHEREAS the City has enacted by-laws that regulate the movement of heavy vehicles on city highways and prohibit damage to public infrastructure as a result of the operation of heavy vehicles, however successful enforcement of these by-laws is challenging; 

  AND WHEREAS in addition to these by-laws, the City may hold securities through the development approval process to ensure heavy vehicle damage to City roads associated with development activities is mitigated, however any damage which may have occurred prior to the execution of applicable agreements would not be addressed; 

  THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Public Works and Infrastructure Committee recommend Council direct staff to:

  a.    as part of the City’s review of the Over-Dimensional Vehicles By-law No. 2003-497, that staff in collaboration with other city departments be directed to explore pro-active opportunities for recovering the potential cost of deg-radation to City roadways by the operators of heavy vehicles, such as fill-hauling dump trucks, or the persons on whose behalf they are undertaking the activity, through for example a permitting system;  
  b.    explore opportunities to leverage new technologies as part of ongoing en-forcement of existing by-laws;
  c.    report back to Public Works and Infrastructure Committee with the results of its review as part of its report on the Over-Dimensional Vehicles By-law No. 2003-497 review in the next term of Council.

  Carried

5.

Planning, Development and Building Services Department

5.1

Potential Implications of Bill 60 on Cycling Projects and Recommendations for the 2026 Capital Budget

File No. ACS2025-PDB-TP-0021 - City-wide

The following Planning, Development & Building Department staff provided a presentation on the item and answered questions from the Committee. A copy of the slide presentation is filed with the Office of the City Clerk.

• Jennifer Armstrong, Director, Transportation Planning
• Kalle Hakala, Program Manager, Active Transportation Planning

Cyril Rogers, General Manager, FCSD and Chief Financial Officer, Finance and Corporate Services Department, and Marcia Wallace, General Manager, Planning, Development Building Services, Planning, Development & Building Department also responded to questions from Committee.

A written correspondence was received from Francine Brisebois and is filed with the Office of the City Clerk and distributed to Committee Members.

The following members of the public spoke before the Committee and provided comments on the item:

1. Justin Westlake Hughes
2. Rob Attrell (Bike Ottawa)

Following discussions, the Committee 'CARRIED' a motion moved by Councillor A. Troster as well as the report recommendations.

• Report Recommendation(s)

  That the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee recommend Council:

  1. Direct staff to preserve funding in the Cycling Facilities Program and Mainstreet Mobility Improvement Program accounts for projects that are unable to move forward in 2026 as a result of Bill 60, should it be enacted, and to report back to Public Works and Infrastructure Committee in early Q2 2026 with recommendations on how to reallocate the funding to other transportation initiatives, as identified in the Transportation Master Plan Active Transportation list; and
  2. Direct staff to report back to the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee as part of the same report on the broader implications of Bill 60 on the Transportation Master Plan, including recommended changes to the cycling project priorities, once a more fulsome assessment has been completed.
  Carried
• Motion No. PWIC 2025-23-03
  Moved by C. Kitts

  WHEREAS the report and supporting documents for item 5.1 titled “Potential Implications of Bill 60 on Cycling Projects and Recommendations for the 2026 Capital Budget” was not circulated with the agenda package; 

  THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee approve the addition of these documents for consideration by the Committee at today’s meeting, pursuant to Section 89(3) of the Procedure By-law (being By-law no. 2025-100).

  Carried
• Motion No. PWIC 2025-23-04
  Moved by A. Troster

  WHEREAS the Albert (between Bay Street and Elgin Street) and Slater Street pro-ject is based on long standing transportation planning decisions; and

  WHEREAS the lanes that would be removed for this design are the lanes designated for the former Transitway; and

  WHEREAS this project intersects with many other major cycling routes; and

  WHEREAS previous similar pieces of provincial legislation have been successful-ly challenged in court;

  THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the revised design for the Albert (between Bay Street and Elgin Street) and Slater Street Improvement project include no elements that would preclude cycle lanes from being incorporated at a future date, legislation permitting.

  Carried

6.

Finance and Corporate Services Department

6.1

Draft 2026 Operating and Capital Budgets – Public Works and Infrastructure Committee

File No. ACS2025-FCS-FSP-0013 - City-wide

The draft budget was tabled at the Council meeting of November 12, 2025. The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee’s report on the draft budget will be considered by Council at its meeting of December 10, 2025.

Cyril Rogers, General Manager, FCSD and Chief Financial Officer, Finance and Corporate Services Department, Tammy Rose, General Manager, Infrastructure & Water Services, Infrastructure & Water Services Department, Alain Gonthier, General Manager, Public Works, Public Works Department, and Marcia Wallace, General Manager, Planning, Development Building Services, Planning, Development & Building Department provided a presentation on the item and answered questions from the Committee. A copy of the slide presentation is filed with the Office of the City Clerk.

The following staff also responded to questions from Committee:

• Susan Johns, Director, Asset Management Services, Infrastructure & Water Services Department
• Heidi Cousineau, Manager, Traffic, Safety & Mobility, Public Works Department
• Stuart Edison, Manager, Traffic Operations, Public Works Department
• Jennifer Armstrong, Director, Transportation Planning, Planning, Development & Building Department
• Quentin Levesque, Director, Roads & Parking Services, Public Works Department

Written correspondence was received from the Queensway Terrace North Community Association and from Andrew Ralph & Rosalie T0-Thanh-Hien and were filed with the Office of the City Clerk and distributed to Committee Members.

The following members of the public spoke before the Committee and provided comments on the item:

1. Ken Holmes
2. Marko Miljusevic
3. Andrew Ralph
4. Kathy Vandergrift (Queensway Terrace North Community Association)
5. Etienne Lefebvre (Strong Towns Ottawa)

At the conclusion of questions to staff and Committee deliberations, the 'Roadmap' Motion PWIC-2025-23-04 was 'CARRIED' with Councillor's M. Lullof DISSENT on clause 4 and Vice-Chair's C. Kitts DISSENT on the whole motion.

• Report Recommendation(s)

  That the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee consider the relevant portions of the 2026 Operating and Capital Budgets and make recommendations to Council, sitting as Committee of the Whole, to be held December 10, 2025.

  Carried
• Motion No. PWIC 2025-23-05
  Moved by C. Kitts

  That the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee recommend that Council, sitting as Committee of the Whole, approve the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee 2026 Draft Operating and Capital Budget, as follows:

  1. The Public Works Department Budget, as follows:
     1. General Manager’s Office and Business Technical Support Services - Operating Resource Requirement (page 2);
     2. Roads Services, as follows:
        1. User Fees (page 5);
        2. Operating Resource Requirement (page 4);
     3. Parking Services, as follows:
        1. User Fees (pages 8-12);
        2. Operating Resource Requirement (page 7);
     4. Traffic Services, as follows:
        1. User Fees (revised pages 15-17);
        2. Operating Resource Requirement (page 14);
     5. Operational Performance and Development Services, Operating Resource Requirement (page 25).
  2. Planning, Development and Building Services Department, Transportation Planning Budget, as follows:
     1. User Fees (page 20);
     2. Operating Resource Requirement (page 19);
  3. Finance and Corporate Services Department, Fleet Services Budget, as follows:
     1. User Fees (page 23);
     2. Operating Resource Requirement (page 22);
  4. The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee Capital Budget (pages 26-29) [Individual projects listed on pages 53-175, including revised pages 100-101].
  Carried

7.

Office of the City Clerk

7.1

Status Update – Public Works and Infrastructure Committee Inquiries and Motions for the period ending November 18, 2025

File No. ACS2025-OCC-CCS-0123 - City-wide

• Report Recommendation(s)

  That the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee receive this report for information.

  Received

8.

In Camera Items

There were no in camera items.

9.

Notices of Motions (For Consideration at Subsequent Meeting)

9.1

Watershield parking

Submitted by W. Lo

• Motion No. PWIC 2025-23-06

  WHEREAS demand for on-street parking in the Watershield neighbourhood is extremely high on Fridays year-round; and

  WHEREAS residents have expressed concerns about the navigability of the neighbourhood’s streets during peak demand times; and

  WHEREAS winter parking prohibitions already exist on one side of the neighbourhood’s streets; and

  WHEREAS the conditions under which staff have delegated authority to implement a change to the curbside regulations along these roadways are not met, based on the On-Street Parking Regulation Change Policy, as approved by Council in April 2017.

  THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Public Works and Infrastructure Committee recommends Council direct staff to implement a year-round parking prohibition on Fridays from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm on the same side as the existing winter parking prohibition on the following streets before 1 April 2026:

  • Cicely Terrace
  • Coralroot Avenue
  • Gentian Heights
  • Springbeauty Avenue
  • Sweetflag Street
  • Twayblade Avenue
  • Watershield Ridge

10.

Inquiries

There were no Inquiries.

11.

Other Business

There was no other business.

12.

Adjournment

Next Meeting: January 29, 2026.

The meeting adjourned at 1:53 pm.