Old West End To Get Increased Building Heights: LEIPER

I’m expecting on Sept. 8 the City will release for public consultation the third draft of the new comprehensive zoning by-law that will be voted on by committee in December then Council in January.

We’re nearing the end of a multi-year process that started with the creation of a new Official Plan in the last term of Council, and that will see zoning across the city brought up to date with what that plan requires. The biggest change from second draft to third is the proposal to allow three storeys in residential areas across the city. Today, zoning in the suburbs outside the Greenbelt allows for three already, but many of the least dense zones inside the Greenbelt are capped at two. I’m supportive of the proposal to make that three-storey limit uniform everywhere.

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This newsletter excerpt from Kitchissippi Councillor Jeff Leiper is courtesy of the city-wide community group Your Applewood Acres (And Beyond) Neighbours

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The City believes our population will grow by 400,000 in the next 20, 25 years, and the Province has told us to plan for closer to 500,000. It makes the most sense, if we want to rein in sprawl and grow in an environmentally and financially sustainable way and when we have a housing crisis, to see much of that growth in areas well-served by transit with lots of walkable amenities. The change would mostly affect parts of the Civic Hospital, Champlain Park, Wellington Village and Island Park neighbourhoods where there are R1 and R2 neighbourhoods that currently have 8.5m height limits. Denser neighbourhoods such as Westboro and Hintonburg already have the higher height limit.

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