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City council has approved the 2014 zoning review — a months-long effort to line up zoning guidelines with the city’s new official plan.
The goal of the exercise was to reduce unpopular “spot rezonings,” create certainty for residents and developers alike, and support the use of public transit.
It could also lead to fewer rezoning applications, which would mean faster approvals, planners say.
“This is going to bring greater certainty,” Mayor Jim Watson said Wednesday, minutes before the motion was passed unanimously by council.
Earlier, councillors approved several technical amendments that applied to portions of the east side of Bronson Avenue, Preston Street north of Somerset, and Hawthorne Avenue and Echo Drive, which some residents sought to protect for low-rise residential uses.
Its passage concludes the second of four phases of a zoning review to implement the new Official Plan (OP), which council adopted in December 2013. The plan is currently the subject of an appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board.
Nearly 2,000 properties located along key road corridors (including eight traditional mainstreets and nine arterial mainstreets), as well as three important transit hubs (two in suburban town centres and one inside the Greenbelt) were rezoned.
The city says the rezonings are aimed at “strengthening these hubs and corridors by allowing more flexibility in how buildings can be used, putting in place new rules regarding compatibility with adjacent neighbourhoods, ensuring that development creates good public realm and is pedestrian- and transit-friendly, and allows for the building heights envisioned by the OP.”
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The goal of the exercise was to reduce unpopular “spot rezonings,” create certainty for residents and developers alike, and support the use of public transit.
It could also lead to fewer rezoning applications, which would mean faster approvals, planners say.
“This is going to bring greater certainty,” Mayor Jim Watson said Wednesday, minutes before the motion was passed unanimously by council.
Earlier, councillors approved several technical amendments that applied to portions of the east side of Bronson Avenue, Preston Street north of Somerset, and Hawthorne Avenue and Echo Drive, which some residents sought to protect for low-rise residential uses.
Its passage concludes the second of four phases of a zoning review to implement the new Official Plan (OP), which council adopted in December 2013. The plan is currently the subject of an appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board.
Nearly 2,000 properties located along key road corridors (including eight traditional mainstreets and nine arterial mainstreets), as well as three important transit hubs (two in suburban town centres and one inside the Greenbelt) were rezoned.
The city says the rezonings are aimed at “strengthening these hubs and corridors by allowing more flexibility in how buildings can be used, putting in place new rules regarding compatibility with adjacent neighbourhoods, ensuring that development creates good public realm and is pedestrian- and transit-friendly, and allows for the building heights envisioned by the OP.”
mpearson@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/mpearson78
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