Timeline: 2022 onwards
The High Performance Development Standard is a collection of voluntary and required standards that raise the performance of new building projects to achieve sustainable and resilient design. The High Performance Development Standard consists of three tiers of performance. The standards, also known as ‘metrics’ in Tier one are mandatory. Tiers two and three contain higher-level voluntary standards.
Sustainable and resilient design in new development supports public health and safety, environmental protection and responds to climate change, all of which are priorities within Ottawa’s new Official Plan.
Upon Council approval, the High Performance Development Standard will be applied in the review and approval of:
• All Site Plan Control applications in the Urban Area
• HPDS Development Threshold Site Plan Control applications in the Rural Area
• All Draft Plan of Subdivision applications
“HPDS Development Threshold” application means a site plan application in respect of:
- Residential developments containing fourteen or more units, five or more floors and/or having a gross floor area of 1,200 square metres or more;
- all planned unit developments;
- mixed-use buildings containing fourteen or more units, five or more floors and/or with a gross floor area of 1,400 square metres or more;
- non-residential development of five or more floors and/or with a gross floor area of 1,860 square metres or more; and/or
- drive-through facilities in the Site Plan Control Inner Area or abutting residential zones.
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