Councillor requests city remove contentious lands from urban boundary or risk facing legal action - by Rachel Morgan
- ladydewinter5
- Oct 11, 2025
- 1 min read
Ottawa City Council will address a motion on Wednesday that will determine whether or not to remove 445 hectares in the rural southeast from the city’s urban boundary.
The Tewin lands, as they are called, are largely owned by the Algonquins of Ontario (AOO). The AOO, in partnership with the developer Taggart Group, received permission from the city in 2021 to pursue a development near Highway 417 and Anderson Road, east of Leitrim and west of Carlsbad Springs. The organization says the community has the potential to accommodate between 35,000 and 45,000 residents.
The AOO has said the development is a “natural evolution for Ottawa” and will “serve as a model for healthy, innovative, and integrated development.”
“I think it’s a very thoughtful plan to help the Algonquins of Ontario,” former mayor Jim Watson said of the project when the decision on the lands was made in 2021. “They believe it’s reconciliation, and I’m not going to second-guess their views on that. I think that it’s a very exciting project to help both the Algonquin Ontario Nation as well as the east end of the City of Ottawa.”
But the proposed development has not received ground-swept approval.
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