The people of Ottawa have been betrayed.

1.)  The "addition to the Chateau Laurier Hotel" is not an addition at all; it is a 200+ condominium development designed by the Condo King of Toronto Peter Clewes. Why have the people of Ottawa never seen drawings that depict the interior rooms of the "extension"?

Three residential towers made of Manitoba Tyndall limestone dwarf the Hotel Fort Garry, Winnipeg, Manitoba, see "20 Fort Street" on Google Street views.

The Hotel Fort Garry is a railway hotel designed by Ross and MacFarlane, the same people who designed the Chateau Laurier. (Wikipedia photo.).

2.)  Sixty acres of the Experimental Farm were given to the Civic to create a new hospital. We were never told that 12 acres of the hospital land have been rezoned General Urban Area-
General Urban Area Zoning
The General Urban Area designation permits the development of a full range and choice of housing types to meet the needs of all ages, incomes and life circumstances in combination with conveniently located employment, retail, service, cultural, leisure, entertainment and institutional uses.
Taller buildings are permitted for sites that front an Arterial Road. Carling Avenue is an Arterial Road.

3.)  Land adjacent to the Rideau Canal UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ottawa may be rezoned from "Open Space and Leisure Zone" to Residential and Commercial. Apparently bird watching, reading and walking along the Rideau Canal are "passive" activities and the full potential of the federal land has not been harnessed. Read the document "Animating the Rideau Canal."

4.)  The City of Ottawa's Urban Design Review Panel was fooled into believing that the new Civic Hospital would be smaller:
     "The Panel has concerns with the scale of the proposed presentation, particularly considering the initial presentation eluded to a Scandinavian approach to a hospital complex-at a much more human scale. The size and mass of the proposed building has the potential to create a significant barrier in the form of a large wall that is disconnected and out of scale with the existing fabric nearby."  (From: Urban Design Review Panel - March 1, 2018. Ottawa Hospital (930 Carling Avenue and 520 Preston Avenue) Formal Review.)

5.)  The City of Ottawa endorsed a project to turn the Natural Resources Canada Booth Street Complex into another Distillery District, similar to the one in Toronto. "Note that the new developments, and particularly the high rise buildings will serve as visual markers much like towers (in the) Distillery District in Toronto." (From: Report to Built Heritage Sub-Committee, Planning Committee and Council, January 31, 2019---Page 18/33.)

The Clear Spirit condos, 70 Distillery Lane, Distillery District Toronto. Designed by Peter Clewes.