The many reasons why a hospital should not be built on the Experimental Farm. Ottawa.

1.)  A traffic study has not been conducted, see the article "Community demands traffic study before Civic hospital approval" CBC News, June 13.
A traffic study was conducted in 2004 for the Booth Street Corridor and traffic volumes on Booth Street are projected to increase between 10% and 15%, because of the LeBreton Flats redevelopment, see the document "Booth Street Corridor Study - May 2004". Two-way traffic volumes during rush hour were 1,000 veh/hour on Gladstone Avenue and 1,200 veh/hour on Preston Street. That was fifteen years ago.

2.)  A group called Reimagine Ottawa is calling for a public inquiry to find out why the Civic Hospital was given approval to build a new hospital on 930 Carling Avenue and 520 Preston Street. Politician and writer Clive Doucet is a member of Reimagine Ottawa. Actually, I would like to find out why 18 Experimental Farms were decommissioned. And why did the Chretien government want to demolish the Dominion Observatory during the 1990's ---was the Civic going to take over the entire Observatory campus as well as the land where the Sir John Carling Building was located? Ottawa City councillors appear to be so biased in favor of residential and corporate developers. Our descendents will have to live with (cope with) with decisions they are making today.

3.)  Public Services and Procurement Canada sold 3.4 acres of land, located at 291 Carling Avenue and 369 LeBreton Street, during the year 2017.

291 Carling Avenue/369 LeBreton. (Photo is from glebeannex.)

4.)  The former Department of Energy, Mines and Resources campus is being massively redeveloped. Several of the heritage buildings will be preserved and the area transformed into another Distillery District, similar to the one in Toronto. But huge parking lots will be needed because of the influx of thousands of people.
The Kingston Penitentiary and Portsmouth Olympic Harbour in Kingston, Ontario are being converted into a Distillery District, according to former councillor Liz Schell: "Redevelopment is a huge opportunity-Schell" - by Elliot Ferguson, Kingston Whig Standard, July 7, 2017.
     "Over the years one after another condominium has appeared leaning right over the Distillery District and it hasn't interfered with the functionality and beauty of the area" she said. "It was a requirement that the Distillery District, if it was going to survive, it had to have housing."

  Kingston Penitentiary is one of the most historic properties in Canada and a major tourist attraction. The Pen and the Prison for Women were built with limestone, therefore they can last for thousands of years, just like the Giza Pyramid in Egypt.  I am beginning to wonder why this country has a Minister of Heritage and a Historic Sites and Monuments Board, if they are powerless to protect irreplaceable landmarks.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
For decades I have lived in townhouses right next to Carling Avenue; this is my street, part of my identity. My street cannot handle the bombardment of traffic from a new hospital; a Distillery District on Booth and Rochester and the creation of a geared-to-income subdivision on 933 Preston. I have no idea what is being envisioned for 291 Carling. I feel like my territory has being invaded. This has to stop.
We the people owned all of these properties.. For years we have been dispossessed, our land and buildings have been stripped away from us. Our descendents should be the property owners, not Amazon or Walmart.. Or American President Donald Trump who built a Trump Tower on railway land at Bay and Adelaide in Toronto. Our land.
Grown children who are disinherited by their parents feel betrayed, cheated, dismissed and abandoned. Why are the people of this nation being cheated out of their collective inheritance?