Tag: Zoning

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:
Continue reading “City Zoning By-Law Draft 2 Feedback Sessions” →

New Zoning Bylaw Info Session – August 29

Join the City for a ward-specific virtual information session on Thursday, August 29 from 6:30 to 8 pm on Zoom to discuss Ottawa’s new Zoning By-law.

The session will begin with a citywide presentation that will provide an overview of the new Zoning By-law. At 7 PM, following the citywide presentation, ward-specific breakout rooms will take place to cover key topics relevant to Wards 12, 13 and 15 and host a Q&A session. It’s your chance to learn about the basics of zoning, key concepts of the proposed by-law, and engage in further discussions where you will have the opportunity to ask questions and share your thoughts! To attend, please register here.

See the previous post on what the changes mean for our neighbourhood (mostly increasing the number of units on a lot and decreasing green space).

New Zoning Bylaw applied to our Neighbourhood

Neighbours,

This document is long but very important for all homeowners to read. It is the first in a series that will take us through the new Bylaw Provisions and their likely impacts.

As you know the city of Ottawa has released the first Draft – third (final) draft proposed for Q4 2025 – of a proposed comprehensive new zoning bylaw that will greatly increase the density in our community. Developers are being encouraged to build a lot of new housing, especially in communities close to the LRT.

The By-laws proposed for Champlain Park will allow developers to build multiple units on our lots. Our standard lot sizes will be reduced. Front and rear yard setbacks will be reduced. This will have a significant impact, particularly on our streets or parts of streets that already have shallow front yards. Greenspace and many trees will be lost. There will be little room left to plant new trees to replace them.
Continue reading “New Zoning Bylaw applied to our Neighbourhood” →

Champlain Park Front and Corner Side Yard Set-backs

See the previous post for details about the set-back zoning ammendments. There’s also a next post about what happened.

Subject: Zoning: Champlain Park Front and Corner Side Yard
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 01:01:09 +0000
From: CoChair1

Please see attachment for July 8 Planning Committee Agenda containing Item 15, Omnibus zoning amendments. The report includes proposed changes to Champlain Park Front and Corner Side Yard Set-back from the current 3 metres to 6 metres and 4.5 metres respectively. This change reflects the actual built form of the neighbourhood, and returns the set-backs to pre-2009 values, thus correcting an anomaly in the subzone specifications.

Champlain Park Front Yard Set Back 8 July 2014
Champlain Park Front Yard Set Back 8 July 2014.pdf

Omnibus Zoning Amendment Update

See the previous post for details about the set-back zoning ammendments. There is also a newer post about the same topic.

The Champlain Park Community Association supports the intent of this zoning amendment.

We have been discussing further clarification to the phrase “in a portion of Champlain Park” to confirm the exact boundaries for the amendment (for example exclusion of the park and minor institutional subzones).

On January 26, 2014, the Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) executive passed the following motion:

Motion: The executive of the Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) approves of the proposal to re-designate the Champlain Park sub-zones (R2D and R1P) from the current 3 metre front yard set-back to a revised 6 metre set-back and gives consent to the City of Ottawa to proceed with this initiative.

Clarification regarding side yard set-back associated with the 6 metre front yard set-back was received after this motion was passed, and is also supported as per the proposed amendment listed above.

  • We have had further communication with the Planning department on this matter.
  • The item is not going to Planning Committee until July 8. The Councillors will vote on the matter; Councillor Hobbs has indicated that she will support this.
  • We have confirmed that in most cases the front yard set-back averaging provisions (average of front yard set-backs of one property abutting on each side of the new infill) will be used. This has resulted in around a 6 metre set-back for most of the proposals that were introduce after May 2012 when the “infill” by-law came into effect.
  • The revision in the omnibus will come into play only where the By-Law 2012-147 (current and revised version that will come into effect once approved at the OMB) references the “underlying zone provisions”. However, the revision is important because it improves the interaction with By-Law 2012-147 in those specific cases.

Questions can be addressed to CoChair1 champlainpark@gmail.com or hpearl2012@gmail.com

Update: Summary of CPCA submission on 132 Cowley and plans

Re: 132 (130, 134, 136) Cowley Avenue Development Proposal

Applications for Consent and Minor Variances,

 City of Ottawa, Committee of Adjustment, July 17, 2013

The owner of 132 Cowley Avenue, Marc Cléroux, has applied to the City’s Committee of Adjustment for minor variances for lot width and consents to subdivide the property into three separate parcels of land to allow the building of 3 detached dwellings. Approval of the consents and minor variance applications would allow a reduced lot width of 10.16m (30ft 4ins) and building balcony projections for each of the three new parcels. 

The Committee of Adjustment, Committee Panel 1, will hear the application at its meeting of Wednesday July 17th starting at 1:00pm and will likely render its decision at that time. 

The Champlain Park Community Association (CPCA) has sent a letter to the Committee of Adjustment in support of the applications.

The CPCA met with the owner and his project designer, Jacques Hamel, on May 2nd and at a community meeting of May 13th, before the submission of these applications, to discuss the CPCA’s goals and objectives for this community and had the opportunity to review the proposal and plans. Based on these meetings and a review of the plans, the CPCA believes that this proposal represents development compatible with the goals and objectives of the Association and is in accordance with the City’s Official Plan and Infill Zoning By-law. We believe building 3 detached dwellings on this deeper lot (45.72m/150ft) is a good and better use of the land and more compatible with the existing street scape and neighbourhood character than introducing semi-detached development on this site.

Three detached units also offer design opportunities to reduce the bulk massing impact that has occurred with some of the semi-detached development that has recently taken place in the neighbourhood. The staggered setbacks of the detached dwellings (13.0m, 9.81m and 6.61m) meets the setback averaging provisions related to the adjoining properties to the north and south and provides for more room for soft landscaping.

A large mature oak occupies the northeast corner of the property and the CPCA has successfully negotiated and signed an agreement with the owner to protect the tree during construction and to ensure its long term health. The agreement is similar to one signed with the owner of 179 Carleton.

Assessed owners of adjoining properties are entitled to attend and speak to the Committee of Adjustment.  If you would like to see a full set of plans showing the site, the unit floor plans and the building elevations or would like any further information:

Please contact Duncan Bury  (613) 729-0499; la.db@sympatico.ca) or CoChair1 champlainpark@gmail.com

Copy of the plans which were filed with the City.

Copy of signed letter.