The City of Ottawa is taking away our green spaces.

A City of Ottawa document proves that the municipality cares more about the needs of real estate developers than the needs of ordinary citizens. I think I would go mad if I did not have my tiny back yard where I can feel the grass beneath my feet and plant flowers and hear the birds sing.
Local politicians probably live in single family houses with enormous back yards. But they are taking land from residents who live in high rise condominiums, boxes in the sky...in order to feed the insatiable demands of developers, their puppet masters.
Residential Land Strategy for Ottawa  2006-2031
4.4.2.  Parks and Open Spaces
"The City's requirements for parks and open space may have to be revisited to ensure that the types of spaces required of developers reflect the need for quality spaces of all sorts (active, passive, programmed, soft-surface and hard-surface) at the right location,, and at the right sizes.The goals of a review of parks and recreational land requirement should be:
     "Quality over quantity of space should be the guiding principle."

"Parks don't have to be grassy to be green." (Emphasis mine.) "One of many appropriate types of public green space is the plaza. Sized right and positioned at the heart of a community, it becomes a genuine focal point. The city should accept parkettes as part of the 5% parkland dedication." (From: Pages 74 and 78 of the document.)
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Definition of a parkette: a pocket park less than 0.5 hectares in size.
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No wonder the city is pressuring the National Capital Commission to sell 13, 600 acres of the Greenbelt. When Jim Prentice was the Federal Minister of the Environment he refused to divest any Greenbelt property.
No wonder the 33- acre Queen Juliana Park on 870 Carling Avenue was rezoned to facilitate the construction of residential towers. In the year 1976, a Mr. Edes at the National Capital Commission convinced the government to give the property to the people of Canada.
Why was the Humane Society land on 101 Champagne sold to a developer.