You are not going to ruin my city, local politicians.

     A document called the "Preston-Carling Secondary Plan" provides shocking details about what is envisioned for Carling Avenue, Little Italy, the Experimental Farm and surrounding properties. Some vision... Vancouver was once a beautiful city but now it resembles Hong Kong because public land such as the Expo 86 and 2010 Olympic Games properties were funnelled to wealthy developers.

1.)  Section 4.22 High-rise Buildings (30+) - Some of the city's tallest buildings may be permitted in the Preston-Carling District. These buildings will be prominent features in the skyline and landscape and will have a significant impact on the identity and characteristics of the district and the City..." For your information, local politicians, I do not want to see the character and landscape of the Experimental Farm and Little Italy changed. A traffic impact study has not even been conducted or a visual impact study, to determine how these new buildings will affect Dow's Lake, Commissioner's Park, the Rideau Canal and adjacent areas.

2.)  Section 5.1. 3 Streetscape Typologies  and Enhancement - a.) Carling Avenue will be a prominent, beautiful and comfortable multi-modal "great street " with wide sidewalks and bicycle lanes/tracks separated from vehicular movements as well as large trees adjacent to the sidewalk and the median east of Preston Street.
I believe that the entire Dominion Observatory campus will be flattened. The Observatory is a National Historic Site of Canada but that means nothing. The Observatory campus is the backdrop for a January 2, 2017 YouTube video called "Ottawa prepares to hand over Historic Federal Farmland to corporate developers."

The Dominion  Astrophysical Observatory near Carling Avenue., Ottawa.

The Photo Equatorial Building near Carling Avenue. (Wikipedia photo).

The South Azimuth Building near Carling Avenue. (flickr.com photo.)

3.)  Station Area - Section 4.1.1.
     " Centred around the Carling Avenue O-Train future LRT station along Carling and Champagne Avenues, the Station Area will incorporate a wide range of transit supportive uses and see the tallest buildings and the highest densities in the entire District."

4.)  Section 4.1.1. - Areas east of the O-Train/future LRT - " High rise mixed use development with a height greater than 30 storeys and up to a maximum of 55 storeys may be permitted on properties fronting Carling Avenue east of the O-Train/future LRT and west of Norfolk Avenue." 
Are you people insane? The following buildings in New York City are 55 storeys high:
The Bank of America Tower
The Time Warner Center South Tower
The Time Warner Center North Tower
The Trump Tower in Manhattan is 58 storeys high.
 Years ago an Ottawa city councillor predicted that "a wall of condos" would someday line Carling Avenue. This is what former Somerset Ward City Councillor Diane Holmes said about Ottawa's planning department:
     "The Development Review Services Branch is responsible for processing development applications. It has become increasingly apparent that this branch no longer represents the citizens or neighbourhoods in the ward. Rather, this branch represents the interests of the development industry. Input from the public is generally disregarded because this branch considers residents comments to be NIMBY comments...The Branch provides support to any application with little-or-no recognition or consideration of the neighbourhood wants and needs...This is happening throughout the Ward where applications are submitted before the developer and the community have the chance to sit down and discuss the proposal...You want to add 10 extra stories on your building? Fine by us. You don't want to provide visitor parking?  Use on street public parking instead. Too many trees in front of your building? No problem, we'll remove them." (From: A May 19, 2014 Ottawa Citizen article by David Reevely, "Diane Holmes whacks the city's planning department.")   

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The National Capital Commission originally chose Tunney's Pasture as the location for a new hospital for the following reasons:
Capital Interests

• The site is associated with the least impact on natural, public, recreational and agricultural functions, and is occupied by many surface parking areas.
• Any potential impacts to the heritage character of the site could be mitigated through design.
• Selection of this site avoids impacts to the Central Experimental Farm Historic Site.
• Selection of this site may displace some existing federal facilities; however, the NCC-approved Tunney's Pasture Master Plan already envisions the divestiture of the western half of the site for non-federal mixed use.
• It may offer opportunities for partnerships or adaptive reuse given the presence of Health Canada's existing facilities on-site.  (From: "National Capital Commission Federal Site Review for the New Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital" November 2016, Page 3.)