[Williamoforange]

Originally Posted by rocketphish

I get your point, but the Official Plan isn't a standalone document, and can't be interpreted by itself. In Ottawa, Secondary Plans are extensions of the Official Plan, providing more detailed policy specificity in certain defined areas of the City.

https://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/documents/files/section12_op_en.pdf

They exist all over the City, not just in Westboro.

https://ottawa.ca/en/planning-developmen...an-secondary-plans/urban-secondary-plans
https://ottawa.ca/en/planning-developmen...al-secondary-plans/rural-secondary-plans

That said, feel free to argue that the Richmond Road / Westboro Secondary Plan (or any other) should be updated to allow more height, but good luck with that.

As stated they should have never been adopted by the official plan, and it looks like them being fought is a possibility or this wouldn't have been put forward. Hopefully one of the other mayoral candidates is keeping tabs on how much Leiper is going to cost the city on this.

Also, neither the city or Leipers who's campaign is based around shared intensification , can't legitimately ask voters for a suburban ward with no planned mass transit to accept high rises if i city/him won't accept them within 300m of existing mass transit & billions of city paid infrastructure.