Information session on August 12 from 6:30 to 7:30 – click to get Zoom meeting link
Site Location
1420 Richmond Road, 365 Forest Street, and 2583 to 2589 Bond Street.
Submit comments and view documents at Ottawa.ca Comments due date: August 8, 2020
Applicant’s Proposal
The City of Ottawa has received a concurrent Official Plan Amendment, Zoning By-law Amendment
and Site Plan Control application to permit a 11-storey and a 12-storey building containing a total of
391 apartment units and a commercial unit at grade facing Richmond Road.
Proposal Details
The sites are 0.49 hectares and is bounded by Richmond Road to the north, Forest Street to the west
and Bond Street to the south. The lands are currently occupied by an automobile service station and
surface parking.
The sites are surrounded by a range of different uses including low-rise residential housing and a fire
station to the north across from Richmond Road, a mid-rise apartment to the west across from Forest
Street, a storage facility to the south across from Bond Street and a high-rise apartment to the east.
Lincoln Field Shopping Centre is located further east across from Croydon Avenue.
Site Plan Control
The applicant is proposing two high-rise buildings with a common underground parking garage
containing 477 parking spaces. The north tower fronting Richmond Road and Forest Street is
proposed at 12-storeys and will include 180 residential units and a commercial unit facing Richmond
Road. The south tower fronting Forest Street and Bond Street is proposed at 11-storeys and will
include 211 residential units. The vehicle access to the site is proposed along Forest Street.
Official Plan Amendment
The sites are designated Arterial Mainstreet under Schedule B of the Official Plan. Arterial Mainstreet
designation identify streets that offer significant opportunities for intensification through medium-density
and mixed-use development, along streets that are Transit Priority Corridors or are well-served by transit.
On Arterial Mainstreets, unless a secondary plan states otherwise, building heights up to 9 storeys may
be permitted as of right but High-rise buildings may only be permitted subject to a zoning amendment
and where the building will be located at one or more of the following nodes:
- Are located within 400 metres walking distance of a Rapid Transit Station; or
- Directly about the intersection of two Mainstreets or a Mainstreet and a Transit Priority Corridor; or
- Directly about a Major Urban Facility.
The subject site is not contained within a node identified above, therefore, an Official Plan Amendment is
required to permit high-rise buildings.
A City initiated Lincoln Field Station Secondary Plan is currently underway. The sites are part of the
Secondary Plan study area.
Zoning By-law Amendment
The sites are zoned Arterial Mainstreet, Subzone 10 (AM10). The general purpose of the AM zone is to
accommodate a broad range of uses including retail, service commercial, offices, residential and
institutional uses in mixed-use buildings or side by side in separate buildings in areas designated Arterial
Mainstreet in the Official Plan.
The proposed site-specific Zoning By-law Amendment seeks to:
- Permit a reduced rear yard setback from 3.0 metres to 2.7 metres along Bond Street
- Permit a ground floor height that is less than 4.5 metres.
- Permit an increased maximum building height from 30 metres to 38 metres.
- Permit a reduced tower separation distance from 20 metres to 15 metres.
Timelines and Approval Authority
The “On Time Decision Date”, the target date the Official Plan and Zoning By-law amendment
applications will be considered by the City’s Planning Committee, is October 8, 2020.
Submission Requirements
If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written
submissions to the City of Ottawa before approval is given, the person or public body is not entitled to
appeal the decision of the Council of the City of Ottawa to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal.
If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written
submissions to the City of Ottawa before approval is given, the person or public body may not be
added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal unless, in the
opinion of the Tribunal, there are reasonable grounds to do so.
Stay Informed and Involved
- Register for future notifications about this application and provide your comments either by faxing or
mailing the notification sign-up form in this package or by e-mailing me and adding File No. D01-01-
20-0006, D02-02-20-0029 and D07-12-20-0041 in the subject line. - Access submitted plans and studies regarding this application online at ottawa.ca/devapps.
- If you wish to be notified of the decision on the application, you must make a written request to
me. My contact information is below. - Should you have any questions, please contact me.
Stream Shen, Development Review Planner
Planning, Infrastructure and Economic Development Department
City of Ottawa
110 Laurier Avenue West, 4th Floor
Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1
Tel.: 613-580-2424, ext. 24488
Fax: 613-560-6006
Stream.shen@ottawa.ca
