Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This thesis investigates the origins of residential density regulations in Ottawa. In particular, it analyzes how planning policy decisions were formed in the periods surrounding the development of the city’s first comprehensive zoning bylaw in 1964. While existing research focuses on the history of capital or regional land use policy in Ottawa, this thesis examines planning specifically at the municipal level. I show the bylaw was the product of a dynamic regulatory process involving several actors—politicians, planners, developers, and citizens—and that this process evolved from site specific building restrictions in the immediate postwar period to neighbourhood-level and finally city-wide zoning in the 1960s. Ultimately, the thesis demonstrates that exclusionary low-density zoning restrictions in Ottawa were not made for unbiased planning reasons, but were rather imposed at the urging of local homeowners who viewed multi-unit buildings and tenants as threats to their property values and way of life.
Author: Jordan Patrick Moffatt
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7124831297
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