Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe takes part in a new conference as the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Big City Mayors meet in Ottawa Dec. 5, 2022.
Ottawa has just weeks to decide whether it wants to keep any of the changes the province made to the city's top planning document last year, but Mayor Mark Sutcliffe wants the urban boundary to revert back to council's original plan.Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe supports allowing the city's urban boundary to revert back to where they were before provincial changes.
When councillors passed the latest version, in 2021, they expanded that boundary by nearly 1,300 hectares.in the wake of blistering auditor general and integrity commissioner reports on his decision to add lands to the GTA's Greenbelt.
"Certainly there has been a fair amount of work over the past year based on the official plan that was approved by the minister," he added. "It impacts a lot of work."
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