Planning and Housing Committee

Minutes

Meeting #:
27
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 Laine Johnson, 
  • Councillor Clarke Kelly, 
  • Councillor Catherine Kitts, 
  • Councillor Wilson Lo, 
  • Councillor Tim Tierney, 
  • and Councillor Ariel Troster 
Absent:
  • Councillor Laura Dudas 
  • and Councillor Theresa Kavanagh 

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Except where otherwise indicated, reports requiring Council consideration will be presented to Council on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 in Planning and Housing Committee Report 27.


The deadline to register by phone to speak,or submit written comments or visual presentations is 4 pm on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, and the deadline to register by email to speak is 8:30 am on Wednesday, May 8, 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.The Chair read the following statement at the outset of the meeting pursuant to the Planning Act:

This is a public meeting to consider the proposed Comprehensive Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments listed as Item(s) 4.1 on today’s Agenda.

For the item just mentioned, only those who make oral submissions today or written submissions before the amendments are adopted may appeal the matter to the Ontario Land Tribunal. In addition, the applicant may appeal the matter to the Ontario Land Tribunal if Council does not adopt an amendment within 90 days of receipt of the application for a Zoning By-law Amendment and 120 days for an Official Plan Amendment.

To submit written comments on these amendments, prior to their consideration by City Council on Wednesday, May 15, 2025, please email or call the Committee or Council Coordinator.

No Declarations of Interest were filed.

ACS2024-PDB-PS-0061 - Kanata North (4)

  • Report recommendation(s)

    1. That Planning and Housing Committee recommend Council approve an amendment to Zoning By-law 2008-250 for 1158 Old Second Line Road, as shown in Document 1, to permit stacked dwelling units on private streets, as detailed in Document 2.
    2. That Planning and Housing Committee the Consultation Details Section of this report be included as part of the ‘brief explanation’ in the Summary of Written and Oral Public Submissions, to be prepared by the Office of the City Clerk and submitted to Council in the report titled, “Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions for Items Subject to the Planning Act ‘Explanation Requirements’ at the City Council Meeting of May 15 2024,” subject to submissions received between the publication of this report and the time of Council’s decision.
    Carried

ACS2024-PDB-GEN-0004 – Citywide

  • Report recommendation(s)

    That Planning and Housing Committee recommend Council: 

    1. Approve the provisional 2024 City-wide and Area-specific Development Charges Background Study dated March 15, 2024, and the provisional 2024 Stormwater Management Area-Specific Development Charges Background Study dated March 15, 2024.
    2. Approve the provisional City-wide and area-specific Development Charge by-laws, to repeal and replace the Development Charge by-laws enacted in 2019, as detailed in Documents 1-12.
    3. Determine that no further public meeting is necessary. 
    4. (a) Approve that the Development Charges By-law 2024 (Document 1) be amended, with applicability to the other development charges by-laws, to insert a requirement for the phase-in provisions within the Development Charges Act, subsection 5(6), paragraph 4.
      (b) Approve that the Development Charges By-law 2024 (Document 1) be amended, with applicability to the other development charges by law, such that should be phase-in provisions be repealed by the Parliament of Ontario, they shall be of no further effect in the development charges by-law seven calendar says after the effective date of their legislative repeal.
    Carried as amended
  • Amendment:
    Motion No. PHC2024-27-01
    Moved byG. Gower

    WHEREAS the Background Studies for the City of Ottawa’s development charge by-laws were made available to the public on March 15, 2024; and

    WHEREAS comments have been received since the release of the Background Studies and the need for revisions have been identified; and

    WHEREAS such revisions include:

    1. A revision to the Trillium Line Extension Area Specific Development Charge to take into account the Debenture Payments over a ten year period;
    2. To fully reflect in the background study the Manotick Water Supply and Sanitary Sewer Service Area;
    3. To revise the Richmond Sanitary Sewer Service Area Development Charge to take into account future growth;
    4. A revision in respect of gross population growth;
    5. A revision to address corrections to reserves to the city-wide and area-specific development charge reserve funds to address residential and non-residential allocations;
    6. A revision to address a reduction to post period benefit due to the projected population growth;
    7. A revision to delete a duplication of Transportation Priority Measures in both the Roads and Related Services and the Public Transit components of the development charge;
    8. A revision to incorporate the provision in the Development Charges Act that the applicable rate is governed in certain instances by the date of application for site plan approval or for a zoning amendment;
    9. A request to provide for a period of transition;

    Therefore Be It Resolved That:

    1. Schedules B and C to the Main Development Charge By-law be replaced with Document 1.
    2. Schedule N to the Main Development Charge By-law be replaced with Document 2.
    3. Schedule O to the Main Development Charge By-law be replaced with Document 3.
    4. The third bullet on page 12 in the 2024 City-wide and Area Specific Development Charges Background Study is deleted and replaced with:
      • The Manotick Water Supply and Sanitary Sewer Development Charge was updated in 2022.   The development charge has been updated to its current indexed amounts for reflection in the proposed development charge by-law.
    5. That a three months transition period, as forth in Document 4 be inserted into the main development charge by-law that provides for transition for those applications not benefiting from transitional measures already in the Development Charges Act:, but not be applicable to the special area development charge schedules nor the area specific stormwater development charge by-laws. 
    6. That the provision set forth in Document 5, which will incorporate the requirements of the Development Charges Act in respect of site plan and zoning amendment applications, be inserted governing the date at which the applicable development charge rate is determined.
    7. That the costs of the transition be included in the background study to be presented to Council in 2025.
    8. Pursuant to the Development Charges Act, subsection 12(3), it is determined that no further public notice is necessary.
    Carried

ACS2024-OCC-CCS-0007 - Citywide 

  • Report recommendation(s)

    That the Planning and Housing Committee receive this report for information.

    Received

There were no in camera items.

There were no Inquiries.

There was no other business.

Wednesday, May 22, 2024.

The meeting adjourned at 1:48 pm.