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Sheila Perry, Vice-President and Liaison Planning/Zoning,
Federation of Citizens' Associations – Ottawa
3Ps— Sounds like a construction project!
Priorities
In September, Steve Box, Director, Corporate Programs & Business Services from the City Manager's Office, met with the Federation of Citizens' Associations and outlined 65 strategic initiatives. Members selected their top three priorities as:
1. Improved public engagement in planning matters
2. Traffic, pedestrian and road safety enhancements, and
3. Renewable energy strategy
Community associations and citizen groups have voiced their opinions and the FCA is listening. Environment issues became the focus of our October meeting, the budget in November and the December 10 meeting will focus on city planning. The FCA's intent is to work closely with City staff and Councillors to build strong communities and a liveable Ottawa.
Planning
FCA members actively promoted participation in the Official Plan review in 2013, followed by dialogue on both the Infill 1 and Infill 2 city-led zoning review projects. Some creative and exemplary projects have emerged in Old Ottawa East with the Oblates and the Main Street Project, Infill 1 zoning review in the Inner Urban area, along with ImagineGlebe, a new initiative by the Glebe Community Association. Each of these examples are engaging participants at community, city and professional levels. However, recent overrulings of Community Development Plans (CDP), challenge community confidence in the consultation process. As volunteers with a serious commitment to our communities, solutions need to be found.
Partnerships
Recent examples are seen with the invitation from Chair of Planning Committee, Councillor Jan Harder and the city's planning department to participate in this monthly newsletter. Other good examples include
the panel discussion held earlier this year with the FCA, Ottawa Home Builders Association, the General Manager, Michael Mizzi and Chair Harder, the Ottawa Urban Design Awards and Jack Diamond's presentation: The City As a Nation Builder, initial planning for a 2016 Citizen Roundtable and the National Capital Commission Urban Forum Series.
The FCA wants to engage all community associations and citizen groups in Ottawa, especially with planning and development teams. As you can see, this is a construction project … a work in progress! We all need constructive ideas and commitment. Please join the FCA at our monthly meeting on December 10 at the Overbrook Community Centre, 7 to 9 p.m. and join this conversation. |
| We thank everyone who expressed an interest in the Citizen Roundtable and originally scheduled for November 7, 2015 as announced by Chair Harder in our October issue. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer the event until 2016. When the session is confirmed, we will promote the event and provide information about registration and the agenda for the event. |
 Do you live,
play or work on Bank Street in the Glebe?
The Glebe Community Association wants your help to ImagineGlebe by taking part in their upcoming community visioning project.
The first phase of this project will focus on Building a Vision for Bank Street: Strengthening our Community's Traditional Mainstreet. The approach is to be creative, collaborative, and positive—and build a vision for the future. The end goal is to develop recommendations to reinvigorate and further animate Bank Street.
Get involved! Complete the online survey and visit
our Pop Up Image Space at 757 Bank Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenue). It will be open between November 6 and 16, 2015. We are eager to hear your ideas.
For more information, e-mail the Glebe Community Association imagineglebe@gmail.com
or visit www.imagineglebe.com |
 When you build something in Ottawa, the Zoning By-law says you have to include a certain amount of parking. These parking standards haven't changed since the 1960s. Our current parking standards make it hard to start and grow a small business. More space for parking also means creating an environment that's really difficult to walk in, or bike, or take transit.
Take an Ottawa minute and watch our video. Read our discussion
paper.
Submit your comments to minimumparking@ottawa.ca before December 18. |
 November 14 or 16, 2015
City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West
Festival Control Room, First Floor
9:00 a.m. to noon
Please register no later than November 12, 2015. Seating is limited to 45 residents per session.
This new elective will provide the background and legislative context for natural systems planning in Ottawa, and will discuss how the various initiatives and policies are implemented through the development review process.
To find out more, go to ottawa.ca/primer
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 Last year was another busy one for the department. The information contained in this report clearly paints that picture. We continue to work hard with our stakeholders, which include local residents, experts and consultants, trades and businesses, City Councillors, novice builders and established developers. We consider our stakeholders as partners, and our approach to service delivery embraces open communication. We work together to shape the growth of the city.
Michael Mizzi, General Manager (Acting)
Planning and Growth Management Department |
 If you like planning, chances are you like maps.
Take heritage districts, for example. The City has posted its heritage conservation districts on ottawa.ca using an innovative technology called story maps. So far, residents are telling us...
Story maps combine narrative text, images, and video content with mapping data to showcase a particular story or project.
Do you have an interesting idea for a story map?
E-mail us your ideas at planning@ottawa.ca |
 The Province of Ontario's Planning Act allows the City of Ottawa to determine what is and is not allowed to be built on properties within the City's boundaries through what is known as zoning.
Zoning permits land to be used for agricultural, residential, industrial, commercial and other uses.
Zoning also includes a specific set of regulations that shape development by setting limits, such as:
- the location of the building on the property
- the height of the building, and
- the number of parking spaces required
Zoning does not regulate who lives in the building. Zoning also does not determine if the building is owner-occupied or rented.
For general zoning information, please call 3-1-1 and ask to speak to a Development Information Officer.
To consult the Zoning By-law visit ottawa.ca/zoning |
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November 5, 2015
