City of Ottawa - Approval of a municipality’s official plan

All submissions the Ministry received were reviewed and considered prior to a decision being made:

• Many of the comments focused on the city’s proposed urban boundary expansion.  Comments were also focused on the city’s forecasted growth and the city-set intensification target, densities, or planned mix of uses that would impact the land quantum of urban boundary expansion; 
• Some comments received suggested the adopted official plan did not adequately address housing affordability; 
• There were comments from the public related to regulating renewable energy facilities (e.g., prohibiting wind turbines);
• The aggregate sector requested more aggregate resources be identified on the official plan schedules; and more flexibility in permitting aggregate operations; and
• Some submissions raised concerns on matters that were site-specific in nature relating to matters involving secondary plans or preservation of neighbourhood character (in particular those identified as heritage conservation districts). 

In response to some of the comments received, modifications were made to the official plan to include specific additions to the urban boundary and the Village of Greely and a new policy framework to monitor affordable housing development. 

None of the other comments resulted in modifications as they were determined to be local in nature; adequately addressed in the official plan as adopted by City of Ottawa; and/or did not impact a provincial interest.