Diane Holmes is trying to save Little Italy.

City of Ottawa Planning Committee - June 24, 2014: "Somerset Ward Councillor Diane Holmes noted that work on the Preston-Carling Secondary Plan had been underway for the past decade, at which time tensions in the neighbourhood had risen. She noted that the area's residents were prepared to accept increased intensification along Carling Avenue, but she wanted to ensure that the district known as "Little Italy" would continue to be supported and preserved and would not be undermined by the plan."
(Note: I do not want to see a "wall of condominiums" along Carling Avenue. 
I was denied access to hundreds of pages pertaining to the lease agreement between the Civic and the National Capital Commission, Public Works and Agriculture Canada ---because I "do not have a valid reason to see the documents." Of course I have a right to see the documents, I am a Canadian citizen, this is Crown land that is being transferred to builders, and Carling Avenue is "my street." I really feel as if my city has been invaded by (foreign? hostile?)elite entities that do not care about Centretown West;
the landscape
history
the danger to pedestrians and people in cars, created by a mass infusion of residents and vehicles;
loss of park land
negative impact on tourism
loss of important views- Dow's Lake;; heritage buildings on the Farm;
loss of thousands of trees;
the exodus of original Little Italy residents and business owners.

I want to see a moratorium on new construction in Centretown West;
I want to see a public inquiry established to find out why so many government of Canada properties are being privatized; to discover who is running Ottawa City Hall especially the planning/zoning department; to find out why Somerset Ward is the victim of an unbelievable, massive land grab. It is ongoing, unstoppable and a malignant cancer that has overtaken a Crown jewel in the Capital City of Canada.)

Centretown Buzz - Feature - The OMB and Norman Street, an inside look by Eric Darwin.
"Readers with a high pain threshold will recall the very controversial and adversarial Preston Carling  plan the City developed in 2013. It recognized the ongoing land stampede by developers to acquire lands along the O-Train Trillium corridor and the intersection of Preston and Carling. Some parcels were upzoned several times, sometimes while buildings were still under development."
"Local residents in the Little Italy neighbourhood felt patronized, pushed and ignored."