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Ottawa – Council today approved five key master plans that will guide the City’s future land development and the growth of Ottawa’s transportation system.
Council approved an updated Official Plan, Infrastructure Master Plan, Transportation Master Plan, Pedestrian Plan and Cycling Plan that were created in consultation with the public throughout 2013 during the Building a Liveable Ottawa initiative. These plans set the vision for Ottawa’s future growth to 2031.
“The plans strongly supported by Council today are ambitious, practical and affordable. They will help us deliver greater certainty in planning matters and we will be taking a huge step forward by building Stage 2 of light rail,” said Mayor Jim Watson. “Together these plans will help us build a city with vibrant communities that offer great cycling, transit, pedestrian and road connections throughout.”
The updated Official Plan provides greater certainty and clarity for residents and builders about how and where the city will develop. The plan encourages development intensification, including highrises, but in designated locations, such as near public transit stations, downtown, at mixed-use centres or employment centres. Development in the rural areas is focused in the villages. All the plans may be viewed at ottawa.ca.
“We’re giving greater certainty on the height of buildings. For the first time ever building heights are being proposed for each land-use designation in the city,” said Councillor Peter Hume, Chair of Planning Committee. “Many residents said the Official Plan needs to better recognize the diversity of the look and feel of Ottawa’s neighbourhoods. As a result, new policies will require developments to fit the character or planned character of the neighbourhood when it comes to height, size or design. We have now completed all the initiatives the Mayor and I promised at our 2012 Planning Summit and will now look forward to evaluating how successful we have been.”
The updated Infrastructure Master Plan (IMP) charts an affordable path for the efficient building, operation and renewal of municipal water, wastewater and stormwater services ─ protecting the environment and supporting development growth. The IMP includes protecting and improving the health of the Ottawa River through the Ottawa River Action Plan and its centrepiece project, the Combined Sewer Storage Tunnel. This project will virtually eliminate overflows into the river and further solidify Ottawa’s place among the world’s leading municipalities when it comes to environmental protection.
The updated Transportation Master Plan includes transit, road, cycling and pedestrian projects that are affordable, leverage previous investments, build better connections and support economic growth. The projects balance the needs of all users, including addressing automobile congestion pinch-points and missing links in cycling and pedestrian networks.
“We are building an affordable transportation network that will decrease commute times, increase reliability and improve connectivity for people in the east, the west, the south and downtown,” said Councillor Keith Egli, Chair of Transportation Committee. “When we heard from the public at Transit Commission and Transportation Committee in recent days, it was mostly from residents who were urging us to do projects sooner. That’s a good sign that we are on the right track with this plan.”
With this Transportation Master Plan, most of the transportation investments the City is going to make over the next 20 years are in high-quality public transit. The Stage 2 rail plan will bring 270,000 more residents within 5 kilometres of LRT and ensure that close to 700,000 residents, or 67 per cent of the total city population, will have ease of access to rapid transit across our growing city.
“The expanded service will be comfortable, convenient, safe and cost effective. It will be easier for residents to get to work, school, recreation facilities and shopping destinations by public transit,” said Councillor Diane Deans, Chair of the Transit Commission. “This draft plan proposes an unprecedented commitment to public transit that pushes rail and bus rapid transit to our major growth communities outside the Greenbelt.”
The City has done a lot of listening and sharing of information through the Building a Liveable Ottawa plan-review project. Residents have done online surveys, attended public information sessions, sent e-mail comments and participated in outreach panels. The City has also worked closely with community leaders and the building industry in updating the master plans. In all, there have been more than 10,000 contacts with residents — including visits to ottawa.ca, visits to information sessions and verbal presentations and online surveys submitted — for the five master plan reviews this year.
Ottawa - To provide certainty on building heights in the updated Official Plan approved today, building heights are being proposed for each land use designation in the city.
The Plan proposes low-rise buildings up to four storeys in most residential and employment areas, with greater heights near rapid transit stations or on transit priority corridors – streets where buses advance ahead of other vehicles. Buildings up to 12 storeys would be permitted in Ottawa’s Town Centres, Mixed Use Centres, and busy Arterial Mainstreets. Heights that are greater or less than those in the Plan could be approved through a secondary planning process and an amendment to the Plan.
Recognizing that Ottawa is seeing the advent of 30-storey and higher buildings, two forms of high-rise designations are proposed, 10-30 storeys, and 31 storeys and above, each with their own requirements for location and design. Policy changes are being proposed to improve the vision for the Barrhaven, Kanata, and Orléans Town Centres that will support Ottawa’s Transportation Master Plan.
Among the other highlights of the updated plan:
Ottawa – The review and update of the City of Ottawa’s transportation plan was carried out with the goals of affordability and arriving at a practical plan that reaches all parts of the city.
Traditionally, with the update of the Transportation Master Plan, there is a long list of projects and only some get done. For this review, staff identified how much the City could invest and prioritized projects based on this funding envelope. There are $3 billion worth of public transit projects in this TMP, the most significant of which are the Stage 2 transit plans that will build on the Confederation line to extend rail further East, West and South of the City.
For the east, the TMP includes a rail line that extends the Confederation Line to Place d’Orleans with three new stations, in addition to the Blackburn Hamlet Bypass Extension and the Brian Coburn Boulevard Extension.
In the west, the plan includes a new four-lane road on Campeau Drive, and widening of both Carp and Old Richmond/West Hunt Club Road, in addition to LRT to Bayshore, Transitway investments from Bayshore to Moodie and March Road to Terry Fox Station, and median-running BRT systems on both March Road from Eagleson to Solandt, and on Baseline and Heron Road between Baseline Station and Heron Station.
In the south, in addition to an expanded O-Train service with additional rail stations at Gladstone, Walkley, South Keys, Leitrim and Bowesville, there will be extensive intersection improvements to Prince of Wales, a widening of the Airport Parkway from Brookfield to Hunt Club, the widening of Strandherd Drive to support the creation of the city’s newest business park, and the Greenbank Road extension between Cambrian and Jockvale.
There is a greater emphasis on bike-transit integration in the suburban area through new priority cycling connections to rapid transit stations, Park and Rides, and the major employment and educational campuses. The City will work with the Ottawa International Airport to study possible rail service to the airport.
Downtown neighbourhoods and inner suburbs will benefit from enhancements in transit, pedestrian and cycling connectivity and enhanced overall accessibility, including: construction of the Western Light Rail Transit Corridor that builds on the Confederation Line; transit priority measures along key routes including Montreal Road, Hunt Club, Innes, Carling and Bank, a pedestrian bridge from Donald Street in Vanier to Somerset in Sandy Hill, as well as the opening of the Prince of Wales bridge to Gatineau for cyclists and pedestrians.
The technical feasibility of building a tunnel from the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge to Highway 417, to divert truck traffic off King Edward Avenue, will be seriously studied.
Continued improvements to the East-West Bikeway from Vanier to Westboro are in the TMP, as is construction of the Nepean Trail and other local cycling routes to connect neighbourhoods from Greenboro to Fisher Heights and Billings Bridge. Additional winter maintenance of downtown cycling pathways is also included in the plan.
The TMP includes Complete Streets guidelines to ensure that we consider the needs of all users on our roads when we consider road design, operation and maintenance. While not applicable to all city streets, opportunities will be sought where appropriate to take back portions of city streets through reconstruction projects for the benefit of pedestrians and cyclists.
The TMP also proposes a package of bus measures, including $317 million worth of bus Transitway improvements and $200 million in transit-priority measures for all parts of Ottawa.
Once approved, the City will undertake the necessary steps to complete Environmental Assessments and approach provincial and federal partners for funding of the Stage 2 Transit Plan.
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Council approved an updated Official Plan, Infrastructure Master Plan, Transportation Master Plan, Pedestrian Plan and Cycling Plan that were created in consultation with the public throughout 2013 during the Building a Liveable Ottawa initiative. These plans set the vision for Ottawa’s future growth to 2031.
“The plans strongly supported by Council today are ambitious, practical and affordable. They will help us deliver greater certainty in planning matters and we will be taking a huge step forward by building Stage 2 of light rail,” said Mayor Jim Watson. “Together these plans will help us build a city with vibrant communities that offer great cycling, transit, pedestrian and road connections throughout.”
The updated Official Plan provides greater certainty and clarity for residents and builders about how and where the city will develop. The plan encourages development intensification, including highrises, but in designated locations, such as near public transit stations, downtown, at mixed-use centres or employment centres. Development in the rural areas is focused in the villages. All the plans may be viewed at ottawa.ca.
“We’re giving greater certainty on the height of buildings. For the first time ever building heights are being proposed for each land-use designation in the city,” said Councillor Peter Hume, Chair of Planning Committee. “Many residents said the Official Plan needs to better recognize the diversity of the look and feel of Ottawa’s neighbourhoods. As a result, new policies will require developments to fit the character or planned character of the neighbourhood when it comes to height, size or design. We have now completed all the initiatives the Mayor and I promised at our 2012 Planning Summit and will now look forward to evaluating how successful we have been.”
The updated Infrastructure Master Plan (IMP) charts an affordable path for the efficient building, operation and renewal of municipal water, wastewater and stormwater services ─ protecting the environment and supporting development growth. The IMP includes protecting and improving the health of the Ottawa River through the Ottawa River Action Plan and its centrepiece project, the Combined Sewer Storage Tunnel. This project will virtually eliminate overflows into the river and further solidify Ottawa’s place among the world’s leading municipalities when it comes to environmental protection.
The updated Transportation Master Plan includes transit, road, cycling and pedestrian projects that are affordable, leverage previous investments, build better connections and support economic growth. The projects balance the needs of all users, including addressing automobile congestion pinch-points and missing links in cycling and pedestrian networks.
“We are building an affordable transportation network that will decrease commute times, increase reliability and improve connectivity for people in the east, the west, the south and downtown,” said Councillor Keith Egli, Chair of Transportation Committee. “When we heard from the public at Transit Commission and Transportation Committee in recent days, it was mostly from residents who were urging us to do projects sooner. That’s a good sign that we are on the right track with this plan.”
With this Transportation Master Plan, most of the transportation investments the City is going to make over the next 20 years are in high-quality public transit. The Stage 2 rail plan will bring 270,000 more residents within 5 kilometres of LRT and ensure that close to 700,000 residents, or 67 per cent of the total city population, will have ease of access to rapid transit across our growing city.
“The expanded service will be comfortable, convenient, safe and cost effective. It will be easier for residents to get to work, school, recreation facilities and shopping destinations by public transit,” said Councillor Diane Deans, Chair of the Transit Commission. “This draft plan proposes an unprecedented commitment to public transit that pushes rail and bus rapid transit to our major growth communities outside the Greenbelt.”
The City has done a lot of listening and sharing of information through the Building a Liveable Ottawa plan-review project. Residents have done online surveys, attended public information sessions, sent e-mail comments and participated in outreach panels. The City has also worked closely with community leaders and the building industry in updating the master plans. In all, there have been more than 10,000 contacts with residents — including visits to ottawa.ca, visits to information sessions and verbal presentations and online surveys submitted — for the five master plan reviews this year.
Official Plan provides greater clarity about how the city will develop
Ottawa - To provide certainty on building heights in the updated Official Plan approved today, building heights are being proposed for each land use designation in the city.
The Plan proposes low-rise buildings up to four storeys in most residential and employment areas, with greater heights near rapid transit stations or on transit priority corridors – streets where buses advance ahead of other vehicles. Buildings up to 12 storeys would be permitted in Ottawa’s Town Centres, Mixed Use Centres, and busy Arterial Mainstreets. Heights that are greater or less than those in the Plan could be approved through a secondary planning process and an amendment to the Plan.
Recognizing that Ottawa is seeing the advent of 30-storey and higher buildings, two forms of high-rise designations are proposed, 10-30 storeys, and 31 storeys and above, each with their own requirements for location and design. Policy changes are being proposed to improve the vision for the Barrhaven, Kanata, and Orléans Town Centres that will support Ottawa’s Transportation Master Plan.
Among the other highlights of the updated plan:
- In recognition of the fact that the Official Plan will continue to anticipate high-rise buildings as a type of development desired by Ottawa’s changing demographics, new policies are being put in place that require builders to demonstrate appropriate separation distances between high-rise towers as well as floor plate size. Improved urban design considerations, including sun and shadow studies ─ as well as guidance on how these buildings should transition to neighbourhood buildings ─ are also provided.
- Mixed Use Centres, Town Centres, the Central Area and Mainstreets are all design priority areas and receive added urban design scrutiny when being reviewed. New policies mandate that plans for all high-rise buildings and major urban facilities (e.g. a university or hospital building) also be given this higher level review. The City will be subject to the same scrutiny, and will be required to build projects to a higher design threshold in the design priority areas.
- As part of a development application, new studies (e.g. Design Brief, Planning Rationale) may be required to demonstrate how proposals address the urban design directions of the Official Plan and the City’s numerous urban design guidelines.
- Public feedback strongly supported the idea that the Official Plan needs to better recognize the diversity of the look and feel of Ottawa’s neighbourhoods. As such, new policies are being put in place that will require a proposed development to fit the character or planned character of the neighbourhood when it comes to height, size, and/or design.
- Five streets are designated Arterial Mainstreet which means that new mixed uses and forms of development are permitted. Examples are Walkley Road from the O-Train to Heron Road, a portion of Innes Road within the Blackburn Hamlet, and Ogilvie Road east of Aviation Blvd.
- Other streets that have transit priority measures on them (e.g. Hunt Club Road) where buses proceed ahead of other vehicles in an exclusive lane or as a result of traffic control measures, are being given minor increases in height to a maximum of six storeys to encourage development and increased transit ridership.
- To support access to the Confederation Line and Ottawa’s other bus rapid transit stations and major transit corridors, new policies are giving priority to pedestrians and cyclists in terms of wait times at traffic signals and space for any required pathway networks.
- Changes to some lands zoned for employment are being made, and new policies are being introduced to protect employment uses and guide when they can be zoned for other purposes. Further study on recognizing opportunities for employment, and how this could affect the current supply and future requirements, will be undertaken outside of the Official Plan review process through the next term of Council.
- No new mineral aggregate areas are proposed for designation at this time.
- In the rural area, growth is being focused in the mid-sized and large villages, particularly Manotick, Richmond, and Greely. Country estate lot subdivisions will no longer be permitted. Two lots now will be permitted through a severance for moderate growth outside the villages. There are no expansions of any village boundaries.
- The Ottawa Airport is removed from the Greenbelt designation. This will allow the Airport to partner with the City to reach its economic development potential, while respecting environmental commitments it has made on the lands its leases from Transport Canada.
- Zoning By-law amendments will begin in 2014 that will bring the Zoning By-law into conformity with the Official Plan. Additional work in the next term of Council will continue with respect to Mineral Aggregate mapping and the Employment Lands. Additional work on the Land Evaluation and Area Review (LEAR), and an update of the high-rise building design guidelines will take place in 2014.
Transportation plan reaches east, west, south and downtown
Ottawa – The review and update of the City of Ottawa’s transportation plan was carried out with the goals of affordability and arriving at a practical plan that reaches all parts of the city.
Traditionally, with the update of the Transportation Master Plan, there is a long list of projects and only some get done. For this review, staff identified how much the City could invest and prioritized projects based on this funding envelope. There are $3 billion worth of public transit projects in this TMP, the most significant of which are the Stage 2 transit plans that will build on the Confederation line to extend rail further East, West and South of the City.
For the east, the TMP includes a rail line that extends the Confederation Line to Place d’Orleans with three new stations, in addition to the Blackburn Hamlet Bypass Extension and the Brian Coburn Boulevard Extension.
In the west, the plan includes a new four-lane road on Campeau Drive, and widening of both Carp and Old Richmond/West Hunt Club Road, in addition to LRT to Bayshore, Transitway investments from Bayshore to Moodie and March Road to Terry Fox Station, and median-running BRT systems on both March Road from Eagleson to Solandt, and on Baseline and Heron Road between Baseline Station and Heron Station.
In the south, in addition to an expanded O-Train service with additional rail stations at Gladstone, Walkley, South Keys, Leitrim and Bowesville, there will be extensive intersection improvements to Prince of Wales, a widening of the Airport Parkway from Brookfield to Hunt Club, the widening of Strandherd Drive to support the creation of the city’s newest business park, and the Greenbank Road extension between Cambrian and Jockvale.
There is a greater emphasis on bike-transit integration in the suburban area through new priority cycling connections to rapid transit stations, Park and Rides, and the major employment and educational campuses. The City will work with the Ottawa International Airport to study possible rail service to the airport.
Downtown neighbourhoods and inner suburbs will benefit from enhancements in transit, pedestrian and cycling connectivity and enhanced overall accessibility, including: construction of the Western Light Rail Transit Corridor that builds on the Confederation Line; transit priority measures along key routes including Montreal Road, Hunt Club, Innes, Carling and Bank, a pedestrian bridge from Donald Street in Vanier to Somerset in Sandy Hill, as well as the opening of the Prince of Wales bridge to Gatineau for cyclists and pedestrians.
The technical feasibility of building a tunnel from the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge to Highway 417, to divert truck traffic off King Edward Avenue, will be seriously studied.
Continued improvements to the East-West Bikeway from Vanier to Westboro are in the TMP, as is construction of the Nepean Trail and other local cycling routes to connect neighbourhoods from Greenboro to Fisher Heights and Billings Bridge. Additional winter maintenance of downtown cycling pathways is also included in the plan.
The TMP includes Complete Streets guidelines to ensure that we consider the needs of all users on our roads when we consider road design, operation and maintenance. While not applicable to all city streets, opportunities will be sought where appropriate to take back portions of city streets through reconstruction projects for the benefit of pedestrians and cyclists.
The TMP also proposes a package of bus measures, including $317 million worth of bus Transitway improvements and $200 million in transit-priority measures for all parts of Ottawa.
Once approved, the City will undertake the necessary steps to complete Environmental Assessments and approach provincial and federal partners for funding of the Stage 2 Transit Plan.
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