Overview
A detailed look at municipal planning / policy innovations to stimulate housing development and gently increase density in existing low rise neighbourhoods. Session will include discussion around a zoning pilot project, housing catalogue, and accelerator funding.
Presenters
Rosaline Hill (OAA, RPP, MRAIC, MCIP, OPPI) Principal Architect & Senior Planner
Rosaline is a registered professional planner and multi-award winning architect, including "Designer of the Year" for the 2021 GOHBA awards. She began her architectural practice in 2011 after a decade of working at Hobin Architecture, as well as 4 years of work in Toronto and London, England. As both architect and development consultant, she has a wide experience of infill development in Ottawa. Her projects are largely residential and are part of the streetscape of neighbourhoods across the nation's capital, from custom singles to 'missing middle' development to mid-rise apartment buildings. Rosaline's thorough knowledge of Ottawa's Official Plan and other regulations allows for designs that win approvals and make the City a better place to live. She has consulted for the City of Ottawa on R4 zoning, and volunteers with the Greater Ottawa Home Builders' Association (GOHBA) providing input on upcoming infill bylaws. Rosaline has engaged in extensive research on the patterns and forces governing neighbourhood evolution. In 2020 she founded Walkable Ottawa and now works collaboratively to advance walkability in urban neighbourhoods. She also founded Ottawa Cohousing to bring the tools and expertise for people to build new homes and cohouse communities together.
Catherine McKenney, Co-Founder, CitySHAPES
Catherine (they/them) is the co-founder of CitySHAPES a national nonprofit organization working to make Cities better for everyone - and a consultant working with others who share these common goals. Catherine cares deeply about equity through affordable housing and ending homelessness, climate action, transit and active transportation, trees and greenspace, and how we build our cities so everyone can thrive in them. Catherine is a former Ottawa city Councillor. They worked at the City in senior roles prior to becoming elected in 2014.