Designation as a Heritage Conservation District will save Little Italy.

Heritage Conservation Districts in Canada's Capital.
Bank Street - By-law 175-2000.
Besserer/Wurtemburg - By-law 2018-338.
Briarcliffe - By-law 2013-65.
ByWard Market - By-law 60-91.
Cathedral Hill - By-law 286-89.
Centretown - By-law 269-97.
Clemow Estate East - By-law 2011-346.
Daly Avenue - By-law 308-82.
King Edward Avenue - By-law 310-82.
Laurier/Wilbrod - By-law 307-82.
Lorne Avenue - By-law 2005-13.
Lowertown West - By-law 192-94.
Minto Park - By-law 142-88.
New Edinburgh - By-law 2016-95.
The entire Village of Rockcliffe Park -
Russell Avenue/ Range Road - By-law 2016-89.
Sandy Hill West - By-law 255-94.
Sparks Street - By-law 255-94.
Stewart-Wilbrod - By-law 311-82.
Sweetland Avenue - By-law 309-82.
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The Provincial Policy Statement issued under the Planning Act, provides municipalities in Ontario with policy directions on matters related to land use planning and development. Part V, Section 2.6 of the PPS states that:

• Significant built heritage resources and significant cultural heritage landscapes shall be preserved; and
• Planning authorities shall not permit development and site alteration on adjacent lands to protected heritage property except where the proposed development and site alteration  has been evaluated and it has been demonstrated that the heritage attributes of the protected heritage property will be conserved.

City of Ottawa Official Plan.

Section 2.5.5. of the Official Plan provides direction regarding the protection of cultural heritage resources in the city. Policy 2.5.5 (2) states that:

     "Individual buildings, structures, sites and cultural heritage landscapes will be designated as properties of cultural heritage value under Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act. Groups of buildings, cultural landscapes and areas of the city will be designated as Heritage Conservation Districts under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act."

Height Limitations.

Save Little Italy, Notes, Facebook.
Somerset Ward Councillor Diane Holmes, January 18, 2013.
     "The Preston Carling Report is a reversion to the discredited 'urban renewal' planning philosophies of the 1950's and the 1960's, which totally discounted the values of the built heritage and human populations in the existing communities. Little Italy is a working-class neighbourhood of historic and cultural importance to the City of Ottawa."
     "During the most recent phases of urban renewal sixty years ago, large areas comprising entire neighbourhoods and communities were completely wiped away for planned redevelopment. This has made the remaining sectors all the more valuable and worthy of protection from another wave of displacement. In designating the whole area east of the O-Train corridor as a throwaway zone, the City of Ottawa has abandoned its principles of community development, strengthening neighbourhoods and working with existing communities."
     "The new building heights of nine stories along the O-Train corridor are too high, and the existing maximum building heights should be retained."
     "With the assistance of the Dalhousie Community Association I have made a calculation of the number of additional population and jobs that will be added to this 'Mixed Use Centre' with the developments already approved or currently applied for:
100 Champagne - 100 units.
101 Champagne - 252 units.
125 Hickory - 324 units.
865 Carling (if residential) - 500 units.
801 Albert - 130k sq metres in jobs.
500 Preston - 294 units.
505 Preston - 248 units.
518 Rochester - 120 units.
If we include the future 3-5 towers at the Dow Honda site (500 units) it appears that the City of Ottawa will already be exceeding the 2031 intensification targets for this section of the Carling Bayview Mixed Use Centre by 125%. Therefore there is no planning rationale to up-zone the healthy low scale streets east of the O-Train tracks such as the dead-end streets for increased development."
Diane Holmes
Office of Councillor Diane Holmes.
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Street Names.
Booth Street-Lumber baron J.R. Booth provided all of the lumber for the original Parliament Buildings. He was friends with Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfred Laurier.
Preston Street - Isabella Preston was a horticulturist and public servant who worked for decades at the nearby Central Experimental Farm. The Isabella Preston crabapple trees line Prince of Wales Drive. Preston Street is also known as Corso Italia.
Gladstone Avenue is Via Marconi.

The Plant Bath located at 930 Somerset Street West is designated by the City of Ottawa under Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act.

Italian Week.

Traffic Studies.

More parkland/greenspace is needed.
Possible venues are 933 Gladstone and vacant land on the former Energy, Mines and Resources campus, a National Interest Land Mass.

Public Art.

Bambini. (CBC photo.)