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September 21 and 22
2 days, 2 disciplines, 2 ways to participate – defining our professional roles and uniting to build more equitable, accessible and inspired communities.
#2GETHER2022
Join City of Ottawa Staff as they recount their experiences preparing their entirely new Official Plan and how the policies tackle modern planning problems. Ottawa's new official plan is a bold document of policies that will guide development in the nation's capital for the next quarter-century. This panel of planning policy experts will explore the variety of topics that are addressed in the City’s new key planning document, such as: the innovative Transect-based framework, the incorporation of public health considerations, resilience as it applies to climate, energy, and equity, pushing the walkable 15-minute neighbourhood model, and implementing a crucial growth management framework. The collaborative effort to prepare the Official Plan not only reached many internal departments but also achieved an unprecedented level of public engagement, making it one of the City’s initiatives with the most engagement. The City of Ottawa is one of the largest cities, geographically, across North America, which means there is a wide variety of contexts that the city needs to plan for: an active downtown and urban core, peripheral low-density residential neighbourhoods, a greenbelt within the urban area, five major suburbs, and a rural area comprised of agricultural operations and local villages. The result of a municipal amalgamation in 2001, the City of Ottawa has adopted its first brand-new Official Plan that replaces the one that combined the former Regional Plan with former municipal Official Plans and Secondary Plans. This is a milestone plan for the city, reflecting the surpassing of the million-mark in population and the expansion of the new O-Train system as the backbone of its transit network.