Saturday, August 31, 2019

The Government of Canada has a duty to protect historic buildings and landscapes in the National Capital.

The National Capital Act (1985) applies to publicly and privately-owned properties.
Objects, Purposes and Powers
10 (1) The objects and purposes of the Commission are to prepare plans for and assist in the development, conservation and improvement of the National Capital Region in order that the nature and character of the seat of Government of Canada may be in accordance with its national significance.
Powers
(2) The Commission may, for the purposes of this Act,
(g) administer, preserve and maintain any historic place or historic museum;
(Note The Experimental Farm is known as a museum without walls - AC, creator of this blog savecfbrockcliffe.)
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The Experimental Farm
The Civic Hospital is  planning to take over more Experimental Farm land than they were originally given which is 60 acres.
5.5.3. Site Selection Criteria
5.) Future expansion: Flexibility for future expansion over and above what is currently planned, within 60 acres. (Google: "site selection review and report - Greenspace Alliance"- April 2016, page 22/75.)
Queen Juliana Park, 870 Carling Avenue, will be a parking lot for hospital employees and visitors.
     "The Mixed-Use Centre (MCFC(1.5)) zoning has been designated for Queen Juliana Park and the existing parking lot at the corner of Preston and Carling. The MC zone allows for a parking garage, a parking lot, a drive-through facility but does not include the notion of a park (even a small park) as one of the uses. While the F(1.5) allows some flexibility for building heights it appears that it is more applicable for parking as the dominant usage." (Planning and Development Committee-Civic Hospital, September 15,2017,Civic Hospital Neighbourhood Association.)
Many heritage buildings will be flattened.
    "On this site we have at least 24 buildings...Extensive demolition and/or relocation of buildings is required to allow for the new build to proceed."(Google: site selection review and report -Greenspace Alliance-Page 57/59.)
The following heritage buildings will be removed:
K.W. Neatby Building East
Oilseed Research Centre
Genetics Building
The Dominion Observatory Campus
more..
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The taxpayers of Canada will have to pay for the destruction of:
A National Historic Site of Canada.
A National Interest Land Mass.
Recognized and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings.
Why are you not preventing this from happening Parks Canada,National Capital Commission, Public Works and Government Services, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Heritage, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board and the citizens of this country?This is OUR property.
William Saunders Building.
Politician and writer Clive Doucet, pictured, is calling for a public inquiry into why the Experimental Farm was chosen as the site for the new hospital, he is a founder of the group "Reimagine Ottawa."(Photo by Andrew Foote, CBC News.) See the YouTube video "Ottawa prepares to hand over Historic Federal Farmland to Corporate Developers."
The Dominion Observatory Campus, Carling Avenue, Ottawa. All of the buildings are doomed. (1966 Ingenium photo.)















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