Consolidated Village Policies

There are 26 designated villages within the City of Ottawa, each with a unique identity, history and future. This document provides visions, goals, objectives and policies planning for 20 of these villages within the city. The villages have a differing planning history based on the original township and city plans that applied to them prior to amalgamation. The goal of this plan is to provide a unified planning framework for growth and redevelopment in all 20 villages while ensuring that each village retains its unique character within the context of the City of Ottawa.

The plan is based on extensive public consultation with residents of each village. During the consultation villagers maintained a common ideal that their communities are active, central places within a large, predominantly agricultural rural area. Villages exist primarily for their residents and to serve the broader rural community. These policies support this ideal.

Villages are a distinct form of community. Far from being suburbs bedroom communities or exurban country lot subdivisions villages have and will continue to have their own commerce and business services, employment, agriculture, education, recreation and housing. This plan supports a distinct form of all these uses in villages. Villages are also intended to be places for economic development, where dynamic village centres can develop and be maintained and where home-based businesses thrive to fill the scale of needs in the community.

This draft policy document has been prepared for public and agency consultation by the Urban and Natural Systems Policy Section of the Planning and Growth Management Department. We want to answer your questions and welcome your comments or suggestions.

Contact:

Robin van de Lande MSc, MCIP RPP, Planner II
Planning and Growth Management Department
110 Laurier Avenue West, 4th Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1J1
613-580-2424 x43011
plan@ottawa.ca