City Zoning By-Law Open Houses – September 25, 29

Following up on City Zoning By-Law Draft 2 Survey there are a couple of open houses remaining to discuss the zoning changes. See https://engage.ottawa.ca/zoning for details and background material.

City Zoning By-Law Draft 2 Survey – July 11

The deadline of the survey asking what you think about zoning has been extended to July 11. Heather says that this is an opportunity to tell the City what you think. Your input is important, even if you don’t answer every question. There also are options to leave comments.

From: New Zoning By-law / Noveau reglement de zonage <newzoning@ottawa.ca>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 at 11:36
Subject: Help Shape Ottawa’s Future: Zoning By-law Survey Extended to July 11 | Façonnez l’avenir d’Ottawa : le sondage sur le Règlement de zonage est prolongé jusqu’au 11 juillet

The City of Ottawa’s new Zoning By-law Review Project is inviting residents, businesses, and community stakeholders to participate in the Draft 2 Survey for the new Zoning By-law.

The survey deadline has now been extended to July 11, 2025 and the findings will be released in September along side the release of Draft 3 of the Zoning By-law Provisions.

What the Survey Covers

The Draft 2 Survey focuses on several key topics, including:

  • Building heights and transition areas in neighbourhood zones
  • High-rise development along Mainstreets
  • Permissions for communal parking lots
  • Zoning considerations in rural areas

Feedback from this survey will help refine the next version of the By-law, Draft 3, which is scheduled for release on September 8, 2025.

Take the Survey now and feel free to share the link:
https://engage.ottawa.ca/embeds/projects/28126/survey-tools/52803

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City Zoning By-Law Draft 2 Feedback Sessions

via Heather, via city councillor Jeff Leiper’s Kitchissippi newsletter…

The City of Ottawa is inviting residents to review and provide feedback on the Draft 2 of the new Zoning By-law. Residents are encouraged to review and comment on Draft 2 of Ottawa’s new Zoning By-law by visiting the project’s EngageOttawa page and to attend online and at virtual and in-person open-house events.

How to Participate
Residents can explore Draft 2 online and attend one of the upcoming open houses:
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Draft Official Plan Open House – September 29

On October 14th, a new Draft Official Plan for Ottawa will be presented to the Planning Committee. This Plan is substantially different in orientation from the current OP. It directs a major amount of intensification to the communities in Ottawa’s north end and will have a significant impact on how infill development will occur during the next 25 years. From across Ottawa, community groups and organisations came together to review the Draft OP. The attachments developed by this “People’s Official Plan” collaboration, outline the conclusions resulting from extensive analysis and provide a concise summary of what needs to change before a new OP will be ready for adoption.

As part of the public engagement process, Residents are invited to join City Staff at a Public Open House on September 29th at 6:30 p.m. to learn more about the new OP.

Please register for this meeting here.

Please submit your questions here.

Thanks, Heather


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City Official Plan Public Presentations

The City of Ottawa is drafting a new Official Plan that will strongly impact the shape of future zoning and development. They have organized a series of virtual presentations that will be of interest to residents of Champlain Park, as we are a rapidly developing neighbourhood, close to two transit stations, bordered by two areas to be developed, Tunney’s Pasture and Scott Street. We will therefore definitely be affected by the Official Plan directions.

Here is a link that invites residents to an important presentation on this topic. Although your CPCA Planning and Zoning and Civic Engagement reps will definitely be tuning in, we will no doubt wish to work with local residents on some issues that will arise out of the directions in the Official Plan, such as zoning and development both within and surrounding our community.
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