NOTEBOOK: A new leadership role on Planning Committee

NOTEBOOK: A new leadership role on Planning Committee

La version française suit On Wednesday, City Council appointed me and Councillor Scott Moffatt as co-chairs of the Planning Committee. We’ll jointly lead the committee until the end of this term of Council in Fall 2022.  (Councillor Shawn Menard from Capital Ward will...
NOTEBOOK: Improving Ottawa’s Official Plan

NOTEBOOK: Improving Ottawa’s Official Plan

(Photo: Residents attending an Official Plan Workshop in Stittsville in October, 2019/Résidents participant à un atelier sur le Plan officiel à Stittsville en octobre 2019) La version française suit To those who wish to delay the adoption of our new Official Plan (OP)...
OCT 24: Official Plan workshop in Stittsville

OCT 24: Official Plan workshop in Stittsville

le français suit “The City should stop development until they build more roads and better transit.” “I want a grocery store close enough to home that I can walk to.” “We need to stop bulldozing so many trees and farms just to build more homes” “Why do we need so many...