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VOTE: Brockington's motion in favour of holding the urban boundary where it is fails in 8-11 vote.
Now back to the original staff report on #ottcity's future growth, and adding rural lands for urban development.
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Now back to the original staff report on #ottcity's future growth, and adding rural lands for urban development.
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Egli thinks the COVID work-from-home idea (see Shopify -- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/shopify-pandemic-staff-ottawa-1.5578614) will "have a ripple effect."
He has a motion to keep an eye on inventory in office buildings, etc. before reaching out to growing in new lands at the fringes.
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He has a motion to keep an eye on inventory in office buildings, etc. before reaching out to growing in new lands at the fringes.
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That #ottcity motion of Egli's and future work trends, office space, is carried:
Earlier, council carried a motion by Menard (I believe committees opposed something similar). It reduces the recommendation of up to 1,650 hectares of extra land, and takes out the portion that would be employment lands for now. That leaves the 1,281ha for urban areas #ottnews
