2.         Zoning reviews / community design plan
and secondary plan reviews

 

rÉvisions de zonage / EXAMENS DU PLAN DE CONCEPTION
COMMUNAUTAIRE ET DU PLAN SECONDAIRE

 

 

 

Committee recommendation

 

 

That Council approve that funds in the amount of $500,000 be allocated from the One-time and Unforeseen account to fund the program to undertake small-scale reviews of existing zoning and to revisit a number of Community Design Plans to resolve ambiguities.

 

 

Recommandation DU Comité

 

Que le conseil approuve qu’une somme de 500 000 $ soit attribuée au compte ponctuel et imprévu destiné à financer le programme d’examens limités de zonages existants et au réexamen d’un certain nombre de plans de conception communautaire, afin de résoudre les ambiguïtés.

 

 

 

 

 

Documentation

 

1.         Planning Committee report dated 8 May 2012 (ACS2012-CMR-PLC-0010*).

 

2.         Extract of Draft Minutes, 8 May 2012.

 

* Originally incorrectly listed as ACS2012-CMR-PLC-0009
Report to/Rapport au :

 

Council / Conseil

 

May 8, 2012

le 8 mai 2012

 

Submitted by/Soumis par : Planning Committee / Comité de l’urbanisme

 

Contact / Personne-ressource: Christopher Zwierzchowski, Committee Coordinator /

Coordonnateur du comité

(613) 580-2424, ext / poste 21359
Christopher.Zwierzchowski@ottawa.ca

 

 

City-wide / À l'échelle de la Ville

RefN°:ACS2012-CMR-PLC-0010

 

 

SUBJECT:

 

Zoning reviews / community design
plan and secondary plan reviews

 

OBJET :

 

rÉvisions de zonage / EXAMENS DU PLAN DE
CONCEPTION COMMUNAUTAIRE ET DU PLAN SECONDAIRE

 

 

 

REPORT RECOMMENDATION

 

That Council approve that funds in the amount of $500,000 be allocated from the One-time and Unforeseen account to fund the program to undertake small-scale reviews of existing zoning and to revisit a number of Community Design Plans to resolve ambiguities.

 

Recommandation du rapport

 

Que le conseil approuve qu’une somme de 500 000 $ soit attribuée au compte ponctuel et imprévu destiné à financer le programme d’examens limités de zonages existants et au réexamen d’un certain nombre de plans de conception communautaire, afin de résoudre les ambiguïtés.

 

BACKGROUND

The Planning Committee, at its meeting of 8 May 2012, approved the following motion, which was added to the agenda pursuant to 84(3) of the Procedure By-law (being By-law no. 2006-462.)


 

Moved by Councillor R. Chiarelli:

 

WHEREAS there is an identified need to respond to community requests for specific small-scale reviews of existing zoning where a problem has been identified; and

 

WHEREAS these requests may be in response to work arising from a development application, a neighbourhood needs assessment, or from a community meeting; and

 

WHEREAS to further reduce development uncertainty, existing Community Design Plans and Secondary Plans also need to  be reviewed to ensure that policies, and the implementing zoning, are consistent and clear in order to resolve lingering or potential ambiguities; and

 

WHEREAS a number of Community Design Plans will be revisited to look at specific sites, or small areas, which were not considered or re-zoned at the original time of approval; and

 

WHEREAS planning issues dealt with through this process would be carefully selected, with a goal of quickly producing a report and an accompanying action plan; and

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT funds in the amount of $500,000 be allocated from the one-time and unforeseen account to fund the program to undertake small-scale reviews of existing zoning and to revisit a number of Community Design Plans to resolve ambiguities.

 

 

DISCUSSION

 

Councillor Rick Chiarelli requested that the Planning Committee approve the above motion requesting that funding as noted above be allocated from the One-time and Unforeseen account to fund the program to undertake small-scale reviews of existing zoning and to revisit a number of Community Design Plans to resolve ambiguities.  He further asked that Council be requested to waive the notice required under the Procedure By-law to consider the Motion at its meeting of 9 May 2012.

 

 

CONSULTATION

 

No public consultation was undertaken as this item was added at the meeting.

 

 


 

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

 

Should Council approve the recommendation, the One-time and Unforeseen Provision balance will be reduced from $2,070,000 to $1,570,000. 

 

RURAL IMPLICATIONS

 

No rural implications have been identified.

 

 

COMMENTS BY THE WARD COUNCILLOR

 

The proposed motion affect all wards on a City‑wide basis.

 

 

LEGAL IMPLICATIONS

 

This item was added at the meeting, and no specific legal implications were identified.  Staff will be available at Council if clarification is required on legal implications.

 

 

RISK MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS

 

Staff will be available at Council if clarification is required on risk management implications.

 

 

ACCESSIBILITY IMPACTS

 

This item was added at the meeting, and no accessibility impacts were identified.  Staff will be available at Council if clarification is required on accessibility impacts.

 



            Zoning reviews / community design plan
and secondary plan reviews

rÉvisions de zonage / EXAMENS DU PLAN DE CONCEPTION
COMMUNAUTAIRE ET DU PLAN SECONDAIRE

ACS2012-CMR-PLC-0010                  City-wide / À l'échelle de la Ville (23)

 

Moved by Councillor R. Chiarelli:

 

That the Planning Committee approve the addition of this item for consideration by the Committee at today’s meeting, pursuant to Section 84(3) of the Procedure By-Law (being By-Law No. 2006-462).

 

                                                                                                CARRIED

 

REPORT RECOMMENDATION:

 

That Council approve that funds in the amount of $500,000 be allocated from the One-time and Unforeseen account to fund the program to undertake small-scale reviews of existing zoning and to revisit a number of Community Design Plans to resolve ambiguities.

 

At its meeting of 8 May 2012, the Planning Committee approved the following motion, which was added to the agenda pursuant to 84(3) of the Procedure By-law (being By-law no. 2006-462.)

 

 

Moved by Councillor R. Chiarelli:

 

WHEREAS there is an identified need to respond to community requests for specific small-scale reviews of existing zoning where a problem has been identified; and

 

WHEREAS these requests may be in response to work arising from a development application, a neighbourhood needs assessment, or from a community meeting; and

 

WHEREAS to further reduce development uncertainty, existing Community Design Plans and Secondary Plans also need to  be reviewed to ensure that policies, and the implementing zoning, are consistent and clear in order to resolve lingering or potential ambiguities; and

 

WHEREAS a number of Community Design Plans will be revisited to look at specific sites, or small areas, which were not considered or re-zoned at the original time of approval; and

 

WHEREAS planning issues dealt with through this process would be carefully selected, with a goal of quickly producing a report and an accompanying action plan; and

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT funds in the amount of $500,000 be allocated from the one-time and unforeseen account to fund the program to undertake small-scale reviews of existing zoning and to revisit a number of Community Design Plans to resolve ambiguities.

 

 

Councillor Rick Chiarelli requested that the Planning Committee approve the above motion, and he further asked that Council be requested to waive the notice required under the Procedure By-law to consider the Motion at its meeting of
9 May 2012.  The Committee approved the item as presented, and concurred with the Councillor’s request that it be waived on to Council.