Next public meeting on infill housing not until September

The next public meeting on infill housing will be held on September 12th in Jean Pigott Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue.

On May 27th, City of Ottawa staff sent the following email about this meeting:

Dear Stakeholder,

This email is to update you on the City’s study of small scale infill housing in mature neighbourhoods.

Since synthesizing the public feedback, various City Branches have been meeting to discuss all the implications of the issues and possible solutions. The internal discussions have not advanced to the point where we are able to state which initiatives will be pursued and what the related next steps will be. For this reason, we will not be ready to host a public meeting in June.

As we are not permitted to hold major public meetings in July and August, the next public meeting related to the study will be held in September. The date for this has been set as Monday, September 12th in Jean Pigott Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue (details to follow).

In addition to meeting internally, we will communicate with interested stakeholders and help to facilitate meetings related to the study. More specifically, a small working group of development industry stakeholders has been following the infill study. This working group expressed an interest in meeting with community association representatives and has asked the City to help put this together. The City has contacted all the community associations in the neighbourhoods that are part of the study and has arranged for a June meeting of the two groups. The City sees this initiative as an opportunity to open a dialogue between the development industry and the affected communities.