Ursula Melinz is a municipal lawyer in Ottawa. As a member of our Municipal, Land Development & Expropriation team, Ursula advises and represents a full range of clients in Eastern Ontario including developers, municipalities, associations, businesses, and individual homeowners.
Ursula assists clients in pursuing site-specific development matters and broad policy issues. She has extensive experience in taking raw land through the development approval process to obtain subdivision, site plan or development approval, including strata consents. Ursula also has extensive experience in development charge matters, development agreements, dedications or levies (such as parkland dedication), cost sharing agreements, environmental protection matters and whole scale re-writes of official plans and zoning by-laws. She is also the administrator for several community development areas or landowner groups.
Ursula is also experienced in expropriation matters. She has represented landowners or tenants expropriated by all levels of Government including the Ministry of Transportation and the City of Ottawa (for example, road widenings or for the purpose of the light rail transit projects).
Ursula frequently appears before municipal committees (including planning committees and the Committee of Adjustment) and councils, the Ontario Land Tribunal (formerly the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal and Ontario Municipal Board) and the Board of Negotiation on behalf of clients. She has also appeared before the Ontario Divisional Court for expropriation matters.
Outside of work, Ursula enjoys being outdoors and actively exploring the City and region.
