The City of Kingston Official Plan (2010) has been amended.

     The Official Plan alterations will facilitate the massive redevelopment of the Kingston Penitentiary, Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, and the Psychiatric Hospital land.

The purple-coloured area is called a heritage corridor, where much of the intensification will take place. The arrows pertain to protected views of Lake Ontario. Views of the Lake will be blocked once the high-rises are built.

Amendment 
     The City's existing Centres and Corridors as shown in Schedule 2, are areas of mixed use and mixed buildings, including employment, residential, commercial and supporting uses and facilities.
     These will be the areas where intensification will be focused, and where greater densities of residential and non-residential development will be focused. 
     Intensification in the form of high density development proposed in a Centre or Corridor that is not subject to area specific planning policies included in Section 10, will be considered subject to the policies of Section 3.3. C of this Plan. (From: Page 68/569)
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The Ontario Realty Corporation is selling much of the Psychiatric Hospital land. The ORC is now called Infrastructure Ontario--- a provincial Crown corporation that privatizes publicly-owned land and buildings. Their holdings include the Rideau Regional Centre in Smiths Falls, Bowmanville POW camp, Guelph Reformatory and hospitals. Who gave gave the ORC the authortity to sell this property, it is a designated cultural heritage landscape. Plans are already underway to sell the land for residential and commercial development. High rises will block the views of Rockwood, the Villa and Lake Ontario.

     By-laws were created to protect historical buildings and landscapes:
Section 7:
     "The City of Kingston is well-known for its cultural heritage resources, which play a key role in the City's identity, and contribute to its economic prosperity as well as to the cultural enrichment of its residents and visitors."
     "It is intended that the City's cultural heritage resources will be protected..." (Amended by By-Law Number 2017-157, OPA Number 50.)
Pages 352 to 359.
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Register of Significant Built Heritage Resources

     "The City will maintain a Register of Built Heritage Resources that are considered significant and have been publicly identified by one or more of the following means:

1. designated under the Ontario Heritage Act;
2. protected by a heritage conservation easement entered into under the Ontario Heritage Act;
3. designated by the National Historic Sites and Monuments Board as a National Historic Site or Park;
4. identified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site;
5. identified by the Federal Heritage Buildings Review Office as a Classified or Recognized Federal Heritage Building;
6. endorsed by the Council of the Corporation of the City of Kingston as having heritage value or interest. (Amended by By-Law Number 2017-57,OPA Number 50)

Pages 352 to 359.

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I would not count on the Federal Heritage Buildings Review Office to save anything, they approved the "disposal" of 1,000 government of Canada lighthouses, including Peggy's Cove; and they never intervened when Canadian National Railway train stations were sold off or left to rot.
The impending demolition of landmarks awakened me from my slumber. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that our most important landmarks are being privatized..A true Canadian, someone who loves this country, would never approve of what is happening in this community.
     Tourists do not flock to this country so they can see high rise condominiums.
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The City of Kingston Official Plan (2010) document mentions a huge residential project that will be built along Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard. The Correctional Services of Canada Regional Headquarters for Ontario are located at Union Street West, along Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard. The Corrections Canada campus at 443 Union Street will eventually be sold off, according to the 1997 document "Let the Future Begin" all federal properties in Canada will be transferred to the Canada Lands Company.
 Corrections Canada has already divested Kingston Penitentiary, the Prison for Women and
the St. Helen's complex on King Street.

The Ontario Staff College provides education and training for people who work in prisons. See the Global News video "New Correctional Service training academy coming to Kingston."
     There are plans to decommission the Collins Bay Institution, Joyceville and other Kingston area prisons, see my blog "Plans are already underway to divest the Collins Bay Penitentiary and to massively redevelop the prison's 835 acres of land".

The Union Street in Kingston Training Academy.

The Corrections Canada buildings and land are located at the corner of Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard and Union Street in Kingston .

This land will be untouchable if Kingston Ontario is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. All land and buildings pertaining to the theme "Kingston - The Penitentiary City" will be off limits to real estate developers including:

• Kingston Penitentiary
• the Prison for Women
• the Penitentiary Water Tower
• The Church of the Good Thief
• Stone Gables
• Rockwood
• Collins Bay Institution
• The Penitentiary Museum
• the Isabel McNeill halfway house.

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and many other individuals protested against the closure of prison farms in Kingston and other communities, see the video "Til the Cows Come Home" (Official Trailer.)