Kitchissippi development overview

There are multiple complex projects in the ward that are keeping us busy. We're trying to maintain an updated list of those here.

A reminder that for any project that has an application before the City, including many already approved, you can visit the City's development applications site to view more information. Clicking on the highlighted address for most of the applications below will take you to the City's development site to view the full applications.

Updated April 14th

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Active Applications

• *New* At 138 Forward Avenue, the applicant has submitted a Site Plan Control application to construct a four-storey, 18-unit apartment dwelling. The site is currently occupied by a two-storey single dwelling (to be demolished) fronting on Forward Avenue. The subject property is located on the east side of Forward Avenue, between Burnside Avenue and Lyndale Avenue. Our office held a community open house, which you can review here. This application is now available on Devapps.
• *New*At 30 Railway Street, the City of Ottawa has received an application to construct a three-storey, eight-unit low rise apartment dwelling. The subject property is located on the westside of Railway Street, between Beech Street and Young Street. Our office held a community open house in February, which you can review here. This application is currently available on Devapps.
• *New*At 398-406 Roosevelt, the owners have resubmitted a Site Plan Control application.  Previously, as some may remember, the Zoning By-law Amendment application had been approved by Council in June 2018, but it was subsequently appealed to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (now the Ontario Land Tribunal). In April 2021, LPAT dismissed the appeal, which allowed the Zoning By-law Amendment to come into force. The owners of the original project (Domicile) have now sold the project to ML Devco; this is their resubmission. The primary revisions made have been a removal of ground-floor commercial space, a removal of surface parking, a removal of a rooftop terrace, and a change in architecture. This application is still live on Devapps. It will likely be coming before Planning Committee this spring. 
• *Updated* At 335 Roosevelt Avenue, we have received the second (2^nd) resubmission of the application for an Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-Law Amendment. As many know, development applications were previously submitted in 2011, and the decision on that application was appealed to the OMB in 2014. The revised design of this second resubmission has reduced the building heights to two (2) 12-storey buildings. Three (3) low-rise apartment buildings on Wilmont Avenue and Winston Avenue remain from the original proposal. Our office hosted a community meeting on this resubmission on November 24th. You can review this meeting online here. This application is available at DevApps. This will be coming before Planning Committee on April 28th. 
• *Updated* At 54, 56 & 60 Bayswater, the owners have submitted a Zoning By-Law Amendment and Site Plan Control application to permit the development of a six-story mid-rise apartment dwelling. We hosted a community meeting in July 2021 to discuss this application which can be reviewed on YouTube. The application is available on DevApps. This will be coming before Planning Committee on April 28th.
• *Updated* At 2046-2050 Scott Street and 295-301 Ashton, the owners have shown the community their plans for a 30-storey 353-unit mixed-use tower. Revisions to this zoning application have been made, which can be reviewed on Devapps. The Site Plan Control Application has also been submitted and can be found here. This will be coming before Planning Committee on April 28th. 
• *Updated* At 70 Richmond Road and 376 Island Park Drive, developers have resubmitted a Zoning By-law Amendment and Official Plan Amendment application with the inclusion of a property at 376 Island Park Drive to the south. The revised design has 85 total units and maintains the 9 storey height with additional building transition to the south and along Island Park Drive. The application is available here, including the revised designs submitted in late 2021 and early 2022. It will likely be coming before Planning Committee this spring. We hosted an open house to show this to the community, but are experiencing a technical issue that may mean we can't share the recording of that.
• *Updated* At 1186-1194 Wellington West, the owners have submitted a Zoning By-Law Amendment and an Official Plan Amendment for the development of an 16-storey storey mixed-use building. A revised submission to the city in April of 2022 saw the change from an 18-storey building to a 16-storey building, along with other minor changes to the submission. We hosted a community meeting in June 2021 to discuss this application which can be reviewed on YouTube. The application is available on DevApps. This will likely be coming before Planning Committee in late Spring. 
• *Updated* At 979 Wellington Street West, the Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment application was approved at Council, but it has been appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board by the community. In April 2022, the city received an application for Site Plan Control at the site, which you can find live on Devapps here. The previous OPA and ZBLA applications remain live on Devapps; no OLT date is set at this time.  We hosted a second community open house in April 2021 to review these details of the OPA and ZBLA applications further, which can be reviewed here.
• *Updated* At 951 Gladstone (at Loretta), the owner has shown the community plans for three high-rises incorporating the Enriched Bread Artists building. As of March 2022, we’ve seen movement in the form of some revised designs for the project.
• At 1546 Scott Street, the applicant has submitted a Zoning By-law Amendment and Site Plan Control to permit a 25-storey mixed-use apartment building. The site is currently occupied by a one-storey commercial building operating as The Beer Store and associated surface parking and loading facilities. Back in January, we hosted a community meeting with residents to review the application. You can watch a recording of that meeting here. This application is now available on DevApps.
• At 260 Armstrong, the applicant has submitted a Site Plan Control application to construct a three-storey residential building containing eight dwelling units, with seven bicycle parking spaces. The property is currently occupied by a duplex building with a driveway on the east side of the property and surface parking in the rear. The application is available on DevApps.
• At 249/255 Richmond Road and 372 Tweedsmuir Avenue, the applicant has submitted a Zoning By-law Amendment and Site Plan Control for the site to permit the development of a nine (9) storey mixed-use building containing 87 dwelling units, at-grade commercial units, and underground parking. Our office held a community open house on December 13th. You can review the recording of this meeting here. This application is available on DevApps.
• At 91-93 Holland Avenue, the owners have submitted a Site Plan Control application to construct a six (6) storey mixed-use development with 32 dwelling units. This SPC application can be further reviewed on DevApps.
• At 630 Churchill Avenue N, the applicants have submitted Site Plan Control application to construct a three (3) storey residential apartment building with 13 units and 14 bicycle parking spaces. You can review this application and its supporting documents further on DevApps.
• A Site Plan Control application has been received for 61 Pinehurst. The proposed development is seeking to construct an three (3) storey, eight unit building with no vehicular parking. You can review this application further on DevApps.  
• At 1081 Carling Avenue, the applicant has submitted a Zoning By-Law Amendment to permit the addition of “Apartment building, high rise” as a permitted land use, to permit loading in a rear yard abutting a residential zone, and to permit additional building height, for the construction of 22-storey and 28-storey towers. We hosted a community meeting on October 12^th, 2021 to discuss the proposal with the community, applicants, and lead planner, which can be reviewed on Youtube here.  The application is now available on DevApps.
• At 797 Richmond Road, the applicant has submitted a Zoning By-Law Amendment and Site Plan Control to permit 9-storey mixed use building with ground floor commercial spaces, residential dwellings in the upper storeys and two levels of underground parking. We hosted a community meeting in September to discuss this application which can be reviewed on YouTube. The application is available on DevApps.
• *Updated* 930 Carling Avenue & 520 Preston – The New Civic Hospital Master Plan. The applicant has submitted a Site Plan Control Application for the new Civic Hospital. The Master Plan was approved in fall 2021 and the holding provision for the application was subsequently lifted. In February of 2022, the city approved the site plan submission for the parking garage (Phase 1). You can find all supplemental documents accompanying the proposal on Engage Ottawa and Devapps.
• At 349 Danforth, the owners have submitted a Site Plan Control Application for the development of a mixed-use, low-rise apartment building. The application is available on DevApps. 
• At 935 Wellington Street West, the owners have submitted an application to permit the demolition of the 1.5-storey residential building dwelling which is currently in poor condition and is uninhabitable. The application is live on Devapps.  
• At 455, 463, 471 & 483 Sherbourne Road; 534, 542, 550, 560 & 568 Redwood Avenue; and 890 Byron Avenue,  the owners are showing the community their plans for an as-of-right Site Plan application which would see the development of three low-rise apartment buildings within an existing residential complex known as Byron Estates. The full application is online. You can view the open house here.
• At 1040 Wellington, the owner has applied for site plan approval for the 30-storey tower that received its zoning approval in 2014. The full application remains active on Devapps.
• At 175 Richmond Road, the owners have submitted changes to their original Zoning approval for a nine-storey and six-storey buildings. Both the Zoning By-law Amendment application and the Site Plan Control applications are available on Devapps.
• At 161 Hinchey Avenue, the owners have shown the community their plans for a 4-storey, low-rise apartment with 15 units. The full application is online.

Recently Approved/Refused:

• *New* The Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment proposals for 1 and 19 Sir John A. Macdonald have been refused at City Council. The NCC has appealed the decision to the OLT; no date has been determined for that hearing at this time. We hosted a community open house in February of 2021 to review the details further which can be viewed on YouTube. The full application can still be reviewed online – the Official Plan Amendment application can be found here, and Zoning By-law Amendment application can be found here. You can find further details on the NCC’s plans on their site dedicated to the project.
• *New* The Zoning By-law Amendment for 745 Sir John A. MacDonald Parkway and 234 Atlantis Avenue (the Westboro Beach pavilion) has been approved at Planning Committee and will rise to Council. The full application can be reviewed online on Devapps here.
• *New* At 327 Richmond, the Site Plan Control application has been approved, after the zoning was approved in 2021. We will be holding a pre-construction meeting with immediate neighbours ahead of excavation on the site.
• *New*At 399 Winston Avenue, the owners have submitted an application to permit the development of a 7-storey mixed-use building. The Zoning By-Law Amendment is required for a reduced requirement for transparent windows and active entrances at the front facade of the ground floor (required 50% proposed 35%). The Site Plan Control application has been approved as of February 2022. We will be holding a pre-construction meeting with neighbours prior to the start of excavation and construction on the site. *Please note due to a technical error on the Devapps site, the SPC application is not appearing; please contact our office at jeff.leiper@ottawa.ca if you need help getting documents from that approved application.
• *New* At 157 Holland Avenue,  the Site Plan Control application to construct a three-storey residential building (containing 12 units) has been approved.
• *New* At 52 Garland Street, the Site Plan Control application to construct a four-storey mixed-use building has been approved. We will be holding a pre-construction meeting with neighbours before a building permit is issued for the site.
• *New* At 364 Churchill North and 348 Whitby Avenue, a Site Plan Control Extension application has been approved by staff. The applicant has submitted this Site Plan Extension Application to revise the Site Plan Agreement and to allow additional time to obtain a building permit.
• The Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment proposals for 1560 Scott Street (Holland Cross) has been approved by City Council. A Site Plan Control application has not been received at this time. The full application is available online.
• The Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment proposals for 861 Clyde Avenue, the former Nielsen Dairy plant (Carling and the 417) have been approved by City Council. A Site Plan Control application has not been received at this time. The full application is online on Devapps – the Official Plan Amendment can be found here, and the Zoning By-law Amendment can be found here. 
• The Zoning By-Law Amendment and Official Plan Amendment for 403 Richmond Road has been approved by City Council. Site Plan Control has not yet been submitted. The OPA application can be found here, and the ZBLA application can be found here.
• The Site Plan Control application for 316-322 Clifton Road remains active; it is likely to be approved by staff in the coming months. You can find the full application on Devapps.
• The Zoning By-Law Amendment for 166 Huron has been approved by City Council. The application is available on DevApps.
• The Zoning By-Law Amendment application and Site Plan Control for 243-245 Hinchey been approved by City Council. You can find the application on Devapps.
• The towers at 1655 Carling have been approved by City Council. A Site Plan Control application remains active for the site. You can review that application on Devapps here.
• For the Byron/Highcroft/Churchill application, an amended Report for the application was approved by Planning Committee on November 10. The amendment Report will see 3-storeys from Highcroft rather than 4 which was in the application. The modified application has been approved by Council. The Site Plan Control application is approaching approval by staff, likely in the next few months. We will be holding a pre-construction meeting with immediate neighbours ahead of excavation and construction on the site.
• Byron Place / Churchill / Highcroft Development – Parkette Consultation. Our office has hosted public consultation to discuss the design of the parkette as part of the approved development. You can review a recording of that consultation here.

Upcoming construction

• 250-252 Hinchey has received approval for its Site Plan Control application. We will be holding a pre-construction meeting with the community before the site is issued its building permit.  

Currently under construction:

• *New* The development at 177-179 Armstrong began excavation and construction in winter of 2022. We held a pre-construction meeting with immediate neighbours, which you can review online here.
• 1705 Carling has began construction. We hosted a pre-construction meeting with neighbours to review timelines and impacts in June 2021. E-mail Jeff.Leiper@ottawa.ca for more information.
• At 163-167 Parkdale Avenue, construction is underway. We have hosted a pre-construction meeting with neighbours to review timelines and impacts which can be reviewed on Youtube. E-mail Jeff.Leiper@Ottawa.ca for more information. 
• 2070 Scott Street has begun construction. We have hosted a pre-construction meeting with neighbours to review timelines and impacts which can be reviewed on YouTube. E-mail Jeff.Leiper@Ottawa.ca for more information. 
• The site at 16-20 Hamilton has begun construction. We have hosted a pre-construction meeting with neighbours to review timelines and impacts which can be reviewed on YouTube. E-mail Jeff.Leiper@Ottawa.ca for more information. 
•  At 90 Champagne, construction has begun. We hosted a pre-construction meeting with neighbours to review timelines and impacts which can be reviewed on YouTube. E-mail Jeff.Leiper@Ottawa.ca for more information. 
• At 320 McRae, 315 Tweedsmuir (and 1976 Scott Street), construction has began. We have hosted a pre-construction meeting with neighbours to review timelines and impacts. E-mail Jeff.Leiper@Ottawa.ca for more information. 
•  At 190 Richmond Road, construction is underway. We have hosted a pre-construction meeting with neighbours to review timelines and impacts which can be reviewed on YouTube. E-mail Jeff.Leiper@Ottawa.ca for more information. 
• At 99 Parkdale, the owners have begun major construction. E-mail Jeff.Leiper@Ottawa.ca for more information.