18:26:50 From Connie - Assistant to Councillor Kavanagh to Everyone : WelcomeThis meeting will be recorded for future reference 18:27:33 From Alex Cullen (he/him) to Everyone : Alex Cullen, Belltown Neighbours Association 18:30:38 From David Jeanes to Everyone : Future resident of Bay Ward (after the next election) 18:31:12 From Ian McCallum to Everyone : Ian McCallum, Pres of Woodpark 18:33:04 From Christine Colverson to Everyone : Christine Colverson, Board Director of Glabar Park Community Alliance. 18:34:43 From Theresa Kavanagh to Everyone : Welcome everyone ! 18:39:25 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : With all this future development in around our Woodpark, how much more development will Woodpark need to absorb to reach the 80u HA OP goal? 18:41:28 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : How can the city justify committing to a 25-year plan when we can’t know yet how the pandemic will shift our living, commuting and recreational patterns going forward? Shouldn’t we wait at least 2-3 years to analyze this impact? 18:44:07 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : I'm curious about the process; how you got to the first draft stage, how many people and departments contributed and also how you will get to the second stage, how you will go through the feedback, how many writers there are, how many subject matter experts etc., how the plan will be made more cohesive and succinct. It clearly represents an enormous effort so far. But more importantly, will there be a second chance for stakeholders (residents) to provide feedback? It seems to me that it would be unusual documentation practice for such a large and important document to only have one review cycle 18:45:03 From Alex Cullen (he/him) to Everyone : Excellent question on having public input on the second draft of the OP! 18:47:39 From Christine Colverson to Everyone : Appreciate your professional approach and facilitation tonight Charmaine, thank you. 18:48:21 From rick nelson to Everyone : How can you turn the document around in a month? 18:48:40 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : If you live in an area, which has been rezoned and your house burns down, are you allowed to rebuild it or are you going to have to potential sell the lot and move if for instance, the lot is now required to be apartments? 18:49:51 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : Does the OP determine whether sidewalks will be installed on a street or in a neighbourhood? 18:53:04 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : Cars: Because intensification may cause more cars, how will the city deal with more cars in local neighbourhoods. 18:54:13 From S. Amenta to Everyone : As a process question, does the City talk with the school boards/Ministry of Ed. re: projections and city plans? Who talks and when? I am concerned about 400,000 new bodies in the City when our schools are already well beyond capacity. 18:56:24 From Trudy Hall to Everyone : Will this meeting recording be available to view again later? 18:59:48 From Connie - Assistant to Councillor Kavanagh to Everyone : This meeting is being recorded. I will send notice on the Baywardbulletin. 19:00:01 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : Back yard tree protection: With front, side and back yards filled in by housing, how will it be possible for there to be trees as well? Will trees be protected from densification? 19:00:25 From Christine Colverson to Everyone : Good question 19:01:31 From Alex Cullen (he/him) to Everyone : How do policies promoting intensification intersect with ;policies regarding preserving/protecting trees? 19:01:34 From Bruce’s iPad to Everyone : Does the intensification goals of the plan mean residential zoning will automatically be changed? if so, could R1 homes be changed to R2 or R3 or R4? How soon would this happen? 19:04:04 From Jonathan Morris to Everyone : @alex, what I'm hearing (between the lines) is that there is a tiering of policies. Intensification policies takes a higher priority than trees 19:04:43 From Cindy De Cuypere to Everyone : I hear that, at present, developers who don't want a tree and can't get a permit just cut them down and pay a $1,000 fine. Is that true? 19:05:09 From Alex Cullen (he/him) to Everyone : This needs to be clarified: trees/access to greenspace should increase as # of units increase in a neighbourhood. 19:05:11 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : Trees as energy conservers: Is it realistic for the city to say that it will increase canopy coverage while increasing housing density? How is that possible? 19:05:23 From Connie - Assistant to Councillor Kavanagh to Everyone : There were many questions submitted advance, so we may not be able to cover the ones submitted through Chat during this session. If the question is not answered during this session, we will get a response and send it to you. 19:05:55 From Lesley Caswell to Everyone : Is it possible to require green roofs on new builds with more than 2 units in the urban core? 19:07:03 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : The 2003 OP has a commitment to 4 hectares of greenspace per 1000 citizens. The draft OP has no such commitment. What is the current level of greenspace in the city relative to the 2003 commitment in each transect of the city? Will the city commit to putting into the revised document a specific commitment to greenspace per 1000 citizens and commit to this within each transect? 19:07:19 From Alex Cullen (he/him) to Everyone : Tree canopy target needs to be met, or else trasde-off for intensification will be resisted. 19:09:19 From Jonathan Morris to Everyone : @Connie, can we get a commitment to written answers to ask outstanding questions we don't cover? 19:09:35 From Christine Colverson to Everyone : @Connie - If questions are answered separately to this meeting, it would be useful to have access to those answers as well (i.e email out to those on the call tonight). Just a suggestion, if possible. 19:10:31 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : Parks: As R1 greenspace is lost, what greenspace will be protected? Will the city create more parks to provide recreation areas and maintain McKellar Park as a pleasant place to live? 19:11:11 From Connie - Assistant to Councillor Kavanagh to Christine Colverson(Direct Message) : Yes I will make them available. 19:12:24 From Georgie - Assistant to Councillor Kavanagh to Everyone : https://engage.ottawa.ca/parks-and-facilities-recreation-master-plan 19:12:45 From S. Amenta to Everyone : Equitable parks and rec...awesome. :) 19:12:49 From Lesley Caswell to Everyone : Although there is a requirement for number of parks etc within a 15 min neighbourhood, is there a requirement for the size of the parks per number of people who live in the 15 neighbournood. So for instance, as more people are jammed into Westboro / McKellar park will you commit to adding more parks so the parks are not overrun. 19:13:25 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : Why is there also not a plan in place to improve the recreation facilities in the Westboro area including more skating rinks, swimming pools and outdoor green space? 19:14:21 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : Our right to sunlight: Are homeowners entitled to sunlight? If not, why not? Why should the city allow tall buildings to dwarf existing neighbours and steal the sunlight from them as they do now with massive new builds? Is there any recourse for the neighbour to prevent this? 19:19:13 From D Broscoe to Everyone : With all this future development in around our Further to the density calculation question, can you clarify the process? Will it be calculated by lot or by neighbourhood or city-wide or? and where is this specified in the OP? 19:20:37 From Alex Cullen (he/him) to Everyone : Good example of sunlight robbery occurs on Carling Ave., where 2000 Carling towers over single-family homes immediately to the north in Carlingwood. 19:21:13 From Trudy Hall to Everyone : Hi density living will lead to high density recreational use of small green spaces. Parks and green spaces are not multilevel. How will green spaces stay green with visitor intensification and heavy usage. Will green spaces be cordoned off so they will stay green? Will visitor traffic be controlled? 19:21:30 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : Will the Design Principles be included into the revised Plan? 19:22:13 From Mark Hollett to Everyone : The Ottawa bylaw 2008-250 stipulates the height limit of a building lot, however developers routinely request to exceed the maximum height in their building proposals. How can we get developers to propose buildings that look like the prototypes in the OP. We what sloped roofs and buildings that blend in, not maximized boxes that thinly comply with invisible sky boxes. 19:22:32 From Ian McCallum to Everyone : Is 8hrs of sunlight the baseline goal in support of new infill? 19:24:20 From Charmaine Forgie to Everyone : How does the new OP preserve "desirable community characteristics" and what are the determinants of "desirable? 19:25:43 From Lesley Caswell to Everyone : Is sunlight while walking on the street a desirable community characteristic? Some parts of Richmond Rd lack sunlight. 19:27:15 From Mark Hollett to Everyone : All throughout Ottawa, the setback at the 3stroey level of major streets do not have a setback wide enough to distinguish the building frontage from the towers above. This is most notable at island park but will over on somerset, bank street and others. A review of establishing pedestrian framing of neighbourhoods is vital. 19:29:01 From S. Amenta to Everyone : Just a 1 minute explanation of the interactive process between city planners and schools/boards/ministry? 19:29:17 From Lesley Caswell to Everyone : Why is Toronto addressing the issues in a different manner. As I understand it they are not destroying residential neighbourhoods to meet the provincial standards. 19:29:54 From Ian McCallum to Everyone : Q I’m concerned about the growth projection number the City is using. Stats Can has a 10% growth for the time period of 25 yrs out. I like Ontario and Ottawa, but we’re projecting nearly 40%, how is this gap reasonable? 19:30:46 From Lesley Caswell to Everyone : It would be great to understand where the 400,000 growth numbers are coming from. The number is highly suspect. 19:30:58 From Frank Richter to Everyone : This was an excellent Q&A session. What's still not clear to us is what does the proposed intensification actually mean for a neighborhood like McKellar Park? Are we moving from R1 to R2 or more? 19:30:59 From v Barton to Everyone : It seems to me the issue is - no matter how ‘good’ and accepted the OP is the issue is 19:31:10 From Christine Colverson to Everyone : That you! 19:31:14 From Christine Colverson to Everyone : Thank* 19:31:30 From Ian McCallum to Everyone : Thanks for the meeting! 19:32:01 From v Barton to Everyone : sorry - the issue is all following the OP - and ending the current atmosphere of appeal which is almost always approved - if the plan says 12 storey I as a neighbour need to know it will be 12 astoreys 19:32:10 From Connie - Assistant to Councillor Kavanagh to Everyone : Email to New Official Plan team: newOP@Ottawa.ca 19:32:29 From Kate Twiss to Everyone : What is the relationship between the Official Plan and all the other plans like the Parks and Rec Plan, the Climate Change Plan, the TMP etc? How many are there and how close are they to being finished? It seems to me that there is a great deal of information and it should be treated as a suite of documentation with very little overlap between the documents, Perhaps the OP could be restricted to little more than explanation of the tools that will be used to achieve the goals in the other docs, a set of links, and an explanation that makes the whole suite understandable and usable. Then the visions, accountability for the visions, and explanations of how reporting will occur could be reserved for the subsidiary plans. Is that strategy a viable option? Also, how does having to structure the information for print limit you?