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| What may lie ahead for the Sir John Carling location in Ottawa.(The drawing is from Reimagine Ottawa|Home|Facebook.) |
Petitions:
Stop the rezoning of Queen Juliana Park at 870 Carling Avenue - Change.org.
City of Ottawa Planning Committee: Stop the rezoning of Parks to Condos, Queen Juliana in Little Italy.
2.) The $4 million dollar Dow's Lake parking lot will also be transferred to a health care facility.
3.) According to the "Preston-Carling District Secondary Plan -Documents" :
"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 character and identity of the of the District and the City." (From: Page 6 out of 16.)
4.) Some of the apartments may be called "Intern Residences". For example, the Ottawa Civic currently operates a 15-storey building at 751 Parkdale Avenue that offers short term accommodation for out-of-town visitors and patients, researchers, etc. In a few years the Intern Residences at the "new hospital" may be sold.
5.) The Central Experimental Farm will never recover from the onslaught of new construction, massive parking lots and the loss of 60 acres of land and at least 500 trees. The Experimental Farm is protected by the designations National Historic Site of Canada and National Interest Land Mass. One day I will stand near the old Civic Hospital---and I will say to myself:
"At one time I could see all the way to Baseline Road from this vantage point; there were corn fields and a few barns...The Farm was a landmark, an urban oasis, a country in the city and a museum without walls."
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| The former Upton Experimental Farm in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. |
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| Save Little Italy! Wordpress.com. Former Somerset Ward Councilor Diane Holmes is pictured on the left. |
"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 It has become increasingly apparent that this branch no longer represents the citizens or neighbourhoods in the Ward.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...This 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 community have a chance to sit down and discuss the proposal...You want to add ten extra stories to your building? Fine by us. You don't want to provide visitor parking? Use on-street parking instead.Too many trees in front of your building? No problem, we'll remove them."
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A bridge too far...residents of Little Italy and the surrounding area cannot absorb the impact of a new Civic Hospital and residences on Queen Juliana Park, the Dow's Lake parking lot, Neatby Building, CFIA Lab and Booth Street campus. Do not build a hospital on a National Historic Site; on a landmark. Do not ruin the character and livability of major tourism venue, Little Italy.
Portsmouth Olympic Harbour in Kingston, Ontario was a gift to the people of Kingston from the taxpayers of Ontario in 1976. But local politicians are privatizing that land. The people of Canada own: the entire Experimental Farm in Ottawa including the Dominion Observatory and the Arboretum; the Booth Street campus and Confederation Heights.
Local politicians including Mayor Bob Chiarelli and the councillors wanted to preserve the 88-acre Moffat Farm near Mooney's Bay as a green space. But the land was sold. (From: Chairman Beaudry testifies.)
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