Developers seek to expand Ottawa suburbs after Ontario rules rewritten

30-May-2025

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Several Ottawa housing developers have already taken advantage of a significant change to Ontario planning rules and made individual requests to the City of Ottawa aimed at having their large rural properties earmarked for future subdivisions.

But they haven't necessarily agreed with the hefty $1.8 million fee council decided to charge or the list of technical studies it required, so developers have filed at least four or five appeals and put the city on the defensive at the Ontario Land Tribunal in recent months.

Others are seeking a big possible expansion east of the Findlay Creek neighbourhood.

It could take 12 to 18 months for the city to update its projections and assess which rural lands should be converted for urban areas.