Ottawa's Experimental Farm should be designated a Province of Ontario Heritage Conservation District.

Reasons why:
1.)  The government of Canada wanted to demolish the Booth Barn and Dominion Observatory during the mid 1990's. Intervention by Heritage Ottawa, the Heritage Canada Foundation, the City of Ottawa and the Province of Ontario saved the Booth Barn.
2.)  The Ottawa Civic Hospital was given 60 acres of Experimental Farm land. Twelve acres of that space will be rezoned to permit the construction of residential and commercial establishments.
3.) The Farm is a National Interest Land Mass but the National Capital Commission can declassify NILM holdings.
4.) The Friends of the Farm are worried about the future of:
The Observatory Campus
William Saunders Building
Heritage House (#60)
Genetics Building (#34.)
(From: Friends of the CEF Fall 2017 newsletter.)
5.) Research conducted on the CEF helped the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change win the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. The CEF is an endangered landscape because the federal government is "getting out of the business of running experimental farms." (From a CBC article "Ottawa closing experimental farm" February 25, 2005.)
Ottawa Heritage Conservation Districts
Rockcliffe Park
New Edinburgh
Lowertown West
Russell Range
Sparks Street
Cathedral Hill
Centretown
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"Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act (OHA) allows municipalities to recognize and protect neighbourhoods, rural landscapes, main streets and other areas of special cultural value that have a cohesive sense of time and place. Designated heritage districts often enjoy a renewed cultural and economic vitality not only because district designation highlights their special values but also because they are protected from decay and the intrusion of incompatible structures."
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada never wanted to see a hospital on the Experimental Farm
This is what they envisioned for the Sir John Carling Building site during the year 2013:
     "Redevelopment of the site of the Sir John Carling Building, to serve as a place where the public can meet and learn from one another, with a CEF Visitor's Centre and facilities for the National Collections." (Central Experimental Farm National Historic Site Management Plan - 2013 - Page 2 of 20.)