Committee moves to improve quality of rental housing

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To ensure safe and adequate housing for Ottawa’s renters, the City’s Community and Protective Services Committee today approved new regulations aimed at improving rental-housing quality.

The new Rental Housing Property Management By-law and updates to the Property Standards By-law would go into effect by August 2021. They focus on property standards, pest control measures and tenant awareness about their rights and responsibilities, outlining new requirements for both tenants and landlords.

The City is also working on non-regulatory ways to improve rental housing quality, including a system to track service requests, an online database of addresses with their history of property –standards violations and maintenance violations and a webpage with resources for both landlords and tenants.

The Committee approved a series of proposals to name municipal facilities and parks after notable local figures:

  • The meeting room in J.A. Dulude Arena in River Ward would be named the Julie Dunnigan Room, after the decade-long volunteer with the West End Hockey League.
  • The Lemieux Island Administrative Building in Kitchissippi Ward would be renamed the Steve Bonk Administrative Building, after the first Canadian recipient of the Abel Wolman Award of Excellence from the American Water Works Association.
  • Carrière Park in Innes Ward would be renamed the Laurier Carrière Park, after the former principal of Garneau School and recipient of the Order of Franco-Ontarian School Merit.
  • The area consisting of the Minto and Confederation fields at the Nepean Sportsplex in Knoxdale-Merivale Ward would be named the Sandy Ruckstuhl Gridirons, after the former president of the Myers Riders Football Club.
  • Banner Park in Knoxdale-Merivale Ward would be renamed George Brancato Park, after the former Ottawa Rough Riders player and assistant coach.
  • The Heron Corridor in Alta Vista Ward would be named WRENS Way to commemorate the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service’s contributions during the Second World War.

The Committee approved the Accessibility Advisory Committee's work plan for this Term of Council. Over the next thee years, the advisory committee would provide input on the site plan process review, recreation infrastructure, accessible taxis, the Municipal Accessibility Plan, Stage 2 LRT, the Official Plan, the Transportation Master Plan, the Solid Waste Master Plan, the barrier removal program and the 10-Year Housing and Homelessness Plan.

The Committee received an update on the impacts of cannabis legalization on City services. The City received $2.8 million from the Province, fully covering the one-time and incremental costs of cannabis legalization, with $945,000 going to Ottawa Public Health and $1.8 million to the Ottawa Police Service. Last year, the City received 120 requests to enforce cannabis by-laws, mostly related to smoking in public.

Recommendations from today’s meeting will rise to Council on Wednesday, August 26.

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