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Big zoning changes clear another hurdle at city hall (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by NotSteve_ to c/ottawa

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A transformational shift in city zoning rules has taken another step forward, but some councillors worry people won't pay attention until it starts upending the look of their neighbourhoods.

The second draft of a massive rewrite of Ottawa's comprehensive zoning bylaw went through council's planning and housing committee on Monday, with only minor changes from the first.

It still axes rules that force developers to build a minimum number of parking spaces in new buildings, and only slightly walks back major increases to building heights and housing density in much of the city.

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[–] veeesix 2 points 2 months ago

Geeeeze. Agreed that video is super dull. A high level executive summary is what is needed.

There are some really cool multi-story single egress stair construction ideas that are happening in Europe and parts of the States that we could adopt to add to our zone densification, but from what I can tell at a glance our Ontario building code would need to change to adopt them.