OTTAWA CITY COUNCIL

19 NOVEMBER 2003

ANDREW S. HAYDON HALL

1:30 p.m.

 

DRAFT AGENDA 64

 

 

1. Prayer

 

 

2. National Anthem  (Councillor R. Bloess)

 

 

3. Roll Call

 

 

4. Confirmation of Minutes

 

Confirmation of Minutes of the regular Council meeting of 22 October 2003.

 

 

5. Declarations of Interest Arising from Prior Meetings of Council and Committees

 

 


6. Communications

 

From the Ottawa Forests Advisory Committee respecting expansion of the mandate of the Advisory Committee to include the protection, acquisition, management and conservation of greenspace and other environmentally sensitive natural areas in Ottawa.

 

7. Regrets

 

No Regrets filed to date.

 

 

8. Reconsiderations

 

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES COMMITTEE AND PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE JOINT REPORT 2

 



 

1. ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY

 

 

joint Committee Recommendations as amended

 

That Council approve the final Environmental Strategy, as presented in Document 1 to this report, as amended by the following:

 

1. That the precautionary principle be included as a criteria in the Annual Report Card for assessing our progress.

 

2. That the Environmental Strategy be amended to include the revisions prepared by Ottawa Forests Advisory Committee in the presentation provided on 9 October 2003.

 

3. That, accompanying the Annual Report Card on the City’s Environmental Strategy, staff provide to Committee and Council the workplan to achieve the Strategy’s objectives.

 

4. That, under Section 3.1.2 - A Corporate Environmental Commitment, Page 22, a new #6 be inserted to read “Incorporate environmental factors and costs into the City’s decision-making on policies, programs and initiatives,”; and renumber accordingly.

 

5. That Goal 1 on page 19 of Ottawa 20/20 – Environmental Strategy be amended to add the following statement: “A green city values its natural areas and greenspaces, protects those in public ownership from development and strives to ensure that valuable ecosystems in private ownership are preserved.”.

 

6. That Item 5 on page 33 of Ottawa 20/20 – Environmental Strategy be amended to add the following:

 

BE IT RESOLVED that staff be directed to develop a new consolidated ‘Topsoil Removal By-Law” as a priority so that it could be in place prior to the Spring of 2004; and

 

FURTHERMORE, that a soils expert be available to provide advice to City staff as it pertains to the removal of topsoil, as in keeping with the previous decisions of Council.

 

CARRIED

 

MOTION NO. 63/4

 

Moved by Councillor A. Cullen

Seconded by Councillor E. Arnold

 

That Goal 4 of the Environmental Strategy be amended by inserting in the sentence “river, creeks and lakes that support healthy aquatic environments” the following: “and are safe to swim in;”.

 

LOST on a division of 10 YEAS to 10 NAYS as follows:

 

Yeas (10): Councillors C. Doucet, P. Hume, E. Arnold, D. Deans, J. Legendre, A. Cullen,

A. Munter, J. Stavinga, R. Bloess and Mayor Chiarelli.

 

Nays (10): Councillors G. Hunter, G. Brooks, M. Bellemare, D. Thompson W. Stewart,

R. Chiarelli, S. Little, D. Eastman, H. Kreling and J. Harder.

 

MOTION NO. 63/5

 

Moved by Councillor A. Cullen

Seconded by Councillor E Arnold

 

That Councillor A. Cullen’s motion be RECONSIDERED at the next regular Council meeting.

 

Notice of motion for reconsideration was CARRIED pursuant to Section 61 (4) of Procedure By-law 2002-247 on a division of 8 YEAS to 12 NAYS as follows:

 

Yeas (8): Councillors C. Doucet, E. Arnold, D. Deans, J. Legendre, A. Cullen,

A. Munter, J. Stavinga and R. Bloess.

Nays (12): Councillors G. Hunter, P. Hume, G. Brooks, M. Bellemare, D. Thompson,

W. Stewart, R. Chiarelli, S. Little, D. Eastman, H. Kreling, J. Harder and

Mayor Chiarelli.

 

 

9. Motion to Introduce Committee Reports

(Councillors S. Little and R. Bloess)

 

Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee Report 27

Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee Report 57A

Emergency and Protective Services Committee Report 39

Planning and Development Committee Reports 61, 62 and 62A (In Camera)

 

 

10. Motion to Introduce Departmental Report(s)

(Councillors S. Little and R. Bloess)

 

City Manager’s Office

Council Governance Review - 2003 - 2006 Council

 

Corporate Services Department

Advisory Committee Annual Reports

 

Development Services Department

Request to Sponsor Community Investment Funds

 

Human Resources Department

Report to be dealt with In Camera

 

 

11. Motion to Adopt Committee and Departmental Reports

(Councillors S. Little and R. Bloess)

 

 


12. Motions of Which Notice Has Been Given Previously

 

MOTION NO. 63/16

 

Moved by Councillor W. Stewart

Seconded by Councillor J. Harder

 

THAT the Rules of Procedure be waived to consider and approve the following Motion:

 

WHEREAS City Council has adopted a common sense approach to providing high quality bilingual services where numbers warrant;

 

AND WHEREAS the official policy on bilingualism has been working;

 

AND WHEREAS the City of Ottawa needs a made in Ottawa solution to the official bilingualism question to stay in the hands of City Council not the courts;

 

AND WHEREAS City Council has been acting as an able arbiter in matters relating to the official bilingualism policy;

 

AND WHEREAS there is a rigorous debate in the general community with regard to enshrining the official policy as contained in the bilingualism by-law in provincial legislation;

 

AND WHEREAS City Council has no information on the costs for implementation or maintenance of a bilingualism policy officially enshrined in provincial legislation;

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the bilingualism policy (By-law #  2001-170) be amended as follows:

 

Expunge recommendation # 6.  Deleting all reference to the request by the

City of Ottawa to the Province of Ontario to amend the City of Ottawa

Act, 1999.

 

 

13. Notices of Motion (For Consideration at Subsequent Meeting)

 

 

14. Motion to Introduce By-laws Three Readings

(Councillors S. Little and R. Bloess)

 

a)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend the Development Charges of the former City of Cumberland in respect of the Cardinal Creek Stormwater Facility (Additional Participating Development).

 

b)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend the Development Charges of the former City of Cumberland in respect of the Cardinal Creek Stormwater Facility (Participating Development).

 

c)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend the Development Charges of the former City of Cumberland in respect of the Cardinal Creek Stormwater Facility (Participating Development).

 

d)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend the Development Charges of the former City of Cumberland in respect of the Blackburn Hamlet By-pass.

 

e)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to close Part of Lot 15, Concession 1 (Ottawa Front), Geographic Township of Gloucester, City of Ottawa formerly in the City of Gloucester..

 

f)                    A by-law of the City of Ottawa to dedicate and lay out certain lands as common and public highways in the City of Ottawa (Tyrell Place).

 

g)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to dedicate and lay out certain lands as common and public highways in the City of Ottawa (Noblewood Way).

 

h)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to dedicate and lay out certain lands as common and public highways in the City of Ottawa (Main Street).

 

i)                    A by-law of the City of Ottawa of the City of Ottawa to designate 100 – 106 Bridle Park Drive, as being exempt from Part Lot Control.

 

j)                    A by-law of the City of Ottawa to designate 42 Sumac Street, as being exempt from Part Lot Control.

 

k)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to designate certain lands on Terry Fox Drive, Marsh Sparrow Lane and Turtle Point Drive, as being exempt from Part Lot Control.

 

l)                    A by-law of the City of Ottawa to designate 1362 Guthrie Street, as being exempt from Part Lot Control.

 

m)                A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend Zoning By-law No.  of the City of Ottawa,  to lift a holding zone in respect of 900 Second Line Road.

 

n)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend Zoning By-law No.  of  of the former City of  ,  to lift a holding zone in respect of 4002-4026 Canyon Walk Drive. 

 

o)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to designate  Blocks 13, 15, 16, 17 and 18 on Plan 4M-1053, 1900 Hunt Club,  as being exempt from Part Lot Control.

 

p)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to designate  Block 193 on Plan 4M-1102 and Blocks 151 and 152 on Plan 4M-1040  (Goldora Private), as being exempt from Part Lot Control.

 

q)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend By-law No. 2001-17 entitled “A by-law of the City of Ottawa to appoint certain Inspectors, Property Standards Officers and Municipal Law

 

r)                   Enforcement Officers in the Building Services Branch of the Department of Development Services”.

 

s)                   A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend By-law 2001-468 respecting certain Municipal Law Enforcement Officers in accordance with the private property parking enforcement program.

 

t)                    A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend the Urban Zoning By-law, being By-law No. 1-84 of the former City of Cumberland – 3545-3547 St. Joseph Boulevard.

 

u)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend The City of Gloucester Zoning By-law, being By-law No. 333 of 1999 of the former City of Gloucester – 965 River Road.

 

v)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend Zoning By-law No. 40/99 of the former Corporation of the Township of Goulbourn, now City of Ottawa – Goulbourn Housekeeping.

 

w)                A by-law of the City of Ottawa to repeal By-law Number 2003-537 of the City of Ottawa, and to amend the Zoning By‑law of the former Corporation of the Township of Osgoode, being By-law Number 2003-230 of the City of Ottawa – 5508 Osgoode Main Street.

 

x)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to repeal By-law Number 2003-540 of the City of Ottawa, and to amend the Zoning By‑law of the former Corporation of the Township of Osgoode, being By-law Number 2003-230 of the City of Ottawa – 6275 Apple Orchard Road.

 

y)                  A by-law of the City of Ottawa to repeal By-law Number 2003-508 of the City of Ottawa and to amend the Zoning By‑law, being By-law Number 40-99 of the former Township of Goulbourn – 9 Orville Street.

 

z)                   A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend the Zoning By‑law, 1998, being By-law Number 93-98 of the old City of Ottawa – 1233 Wellington.

 

aa)               A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend the Zoning By-law being By-law Number 266 of 1981 of the former Township of West Carleton – Anomaly By-law.

 

bb)              A by-law of the City of Ottawa to amend the Zoning By‑law, 1998, being By-law Number 93-98 of the old City of Ottawa – 1384-1400 Start Top.

 

cc)               A by-law of the City of Ottawa to impose special annual drainage rates upon land in respect of which money is borrowed under the Tile Drainage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.T.8;

 

 

15. Confirmation By-law (Councillors S. Little and R. Bloess)

 

 

16. Inquiries

 

 

17. Adjournment (Councillors S. Little and R. Bloess)

 

 

 

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