Draft 2: New Zoning By-law Issues and Opportunities Survey
Purpose
The City of Ottawa has a new Official Plan that sets out new priorities and new directions. The Planning Act requires municipalities to update the zoning by-law within three years of the approval of a new Official Plan. As such, the City is developing a new comprehensive Zoning By-law for approval by Council. The new Zoning By-law needs to support the intensification and growth goals in the Official Plan, implement regulations to support liveable communities as expected by Council and the public, and provide a zoning framework that supports the development of 15-minute neighbourhoods and other strategic policy goals. Once approved, the new Zoning By-law will replace the current Zoning By-law 2008-250.
Draft 2 of the new Zoning By-law has been released and consultations will focus on several key outstanding issues that were raised during the engagement program and work completed to-date. The final draft of the new Zoning By-law (Draft 3) is scheduled to be released on September 8, 2025 and will go to Joint Committee on December 17, 2025 and to City Council for approval on January 28, 2026.
Key issues and opportunities have been identified and the City is looking to understand the interests of the community and hear public feedback on key topics through a community survey. The key topics include building heights and building transition framework in the City and in neighbourhood zones, and communal parking lot permissions.
Click here to read or download the updated provisions in Draft 2 of the new Zoning By-law.
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