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“The Official Plan directs how the city will grow for the next 25 years and we’re trying to focus growth to locations where it’s going to make the most sense for the city — in a bunch of different ways, like around transit stations — to make complete, livable communities and a financially sustainable city,” said Carol Ruddy, the city’s manager of zoning and intensification.

Ottawa’s current zoning bylaws were largely carried over from pre-amalgamation cities and towns, dividing the city’s neighbourhoods into five zones — labelled R1 to R5 — with sub-categories and distinct regulations resulting in more than 140 variations, with about 600 variations within those sub-categories.

"It’s really easy for people to look at a new bike lane and blame that for how long it’s taking them to move around town. We know that’s not the case. The research demonstrates that bike lanes are not the cause of congestion."

Mathieu Grondin aims to shake off capital city’s reputation and make it a ‘nightlife destination of choice’

In the ‘90s, a VHS tape emerged and, with it, a claim that a UFO had crashed in a field near Ottawa. A former teen UFO investigator returns decades later to find out what people saw there