Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Queen Juliana Park at Dow's Lake should be a Memorial Park. Not the location of a new hospital.

The Sir John Carling Building and Queen Juliana Park.

Commemorative parks in Ottawa that honour Canadian soldiers:
The Moffat Farm Veterans Park, 591 Kochar Drive.
Commissioner's Park, located near Dow's Lake at the corner of Preston Street and Queen Elizabeth Drive. For decades now members of the Dutch Royal Family have visited Commissioner's Park.
The Greenbelt was created by Jacques Greber, to be a living memorial dedicated to Canadian soldiers who fought and were killed in foreign wars.
What should be banned on Queen Juliana Park
A hospital; massive new parking lots (the Dow's Lake parking lot should be left just the way it is, for local parking and for tourists;);biotechnology laboratories; condominiums; a helicopter landing site;  fences that encircle the land; "PRIVATE PROPERTY" and "NO TRESPASSING" signs.
According to a comment found on the Skyscraper Forum, the National Capital Commission wants to sell most of Queen Juliana Park land to condominium builders...("New Civic Hospital"-Forum; Skyscraperpage.com-Page 3.)
Petitions have already been created to stop the National Capital Commission:1.)  City of Ottawa Planning Committee-Stop the rezoning of Parks to Condos, Queen Juliana in Little Italy.2.) Petition: Stop the rezoning of Queen Juliana Park at 870 Carling Avenue - Change.org.

The land should be preserved and designated a national urban park. Local residents and people from all over the world should be welcomed to this haven, which ought to be a publicly-owned in perpetuity. I can envision commemorative statues and giant tulips inhabiting the space.The Park should always be a major venue for Canada Day celebrations, the Canadian Tulip Festival and for fundraising events.
More than 1,000 people attended a fundraising event at Queen Juliana Park in 2019, the Sun Life Walk to Cure Diabetes.
I am getting fed up with the National Capital Commission selling or giving public land to the Civic Hospital and builders of million-dollar houses and condominiums.
American Embassy - was built on land that was supposed to be part of Major's Hill Park.
Moffat Farm - was an 88-acre Veteran's Affairs property, yet it was sold to Phoenix developments.
The Daly Building vacant lot in downtown Ottawa was destined to be an urban park, but a luxury condo occupies the space.
Whenever the NCC faces a roadblock (for example Ottawa City Council refusing to rezone a piece of land ) they appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board.
The Greenbelt Research Farm was transferred from Agriculture Canada to the NCC for a dollar. The Greenbelt and the Experimental Farm on Carling Avenue are National Interest Land Mass properties.
The 2,965 acre former Agriculture Canada Experimental Farm, Nepean. It is bordered by Hunt Club Road, Woodroffe Avenue, Fallowfield Road and Greenbank Road. The National Capital Commission is the custodian.





Tulips that are 5-feet tall could be displayed at the Queen Juliana Memorial Park.(Canadian Tulip Festival photo.)

The entire Experimental Farm on Carling Avenue was designated a National Interest Land Mass.The land cannot legally be sold or subdivided: "NILM identifies lands that are essential to the achievement of the National Capital Commission's mandate. Land identified within the NILM are required to support the symbolism, functions, physical structure and natural and landscape qualities of Canada's Capital. A NILM designation indicates a formal expression of the federal government's interest in the long-term use of this land in a manner that supports Canada's Capital." ("Proponents Guide to the NCC's Federal Land Use, Design and Transactions Approval Process" - September 2018.)

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