This is what happens, when Dominion Observatories in Canada are privatized.

 House of Commons  Ottawa December 7, 1987. Gonzales Hill Observatory transfer of public land.

Hon. Allan Bruce McKinnon, (Victoria) Progressive Conservative.

     "Mr. Speaker, it is my honour and pleasure to present petitions filled out and signed by 377 members of the Canadian public. The petitioners pray and call upon Parliament to transfer to the City of Victoria the entire parcel of public land surrounding the Gonzales Hill Observatory heritage site in order to officially create a park and thus preserve the scenic, irreplaceable land for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future residents of British Columbia."

The Gonzales Observatory had already been sold in 1987, to the City of Victoria for $35,000 dollars. The transaction was carried out via a Privy Council Order-in-Council, which means that ordinary Canadians were never consulted about the sale of public property; and the matter was never discussed in the House of Commons. 

The "parkland" is now the Gonzales Neighbourhood, an enclave of luxury houses and townhouses. Even the Gonzales Hill Observatory is on the radar of housing developers, because the City of Victoria refuses to designate the property a Heritage Conservation Area:

"A Heritage Conservation Area is no longer being explored for Gonzales as part of the neighbourhood planning process." 2017.The City is encouraging the readaptive use of heritage properties and that does not preclude demolition or facadism.

The Gonzales Observatory, 302 Denison Road, Victoria, British Columbia.

301 Denison Road is right next to the Observatory and it was obviously part of the campus. Sold in 2020.

Google: 302 Denison Road, Victoria Heritage Foundation.

"The building was given federal heritage protection in the 1980's ,with the highest rating of "classified federal heritage building."..In 1987 the federal Public Works department announced a plan to sell off most of the land to the north of the Observatory for housing development, and to sell the building itself and the land immediately surrounding it to the City of Victoria for $1 dollar.

"Both the Victoria and Oak Bay councils joined the Gonzales Hill preservation society in opposing this plan, a very important aspect of this protection was that the area provides habitat for quail and other birds, as well as for some rare plant species.

"Eventually the entire property was sold to the Capital Regional District for $35,000 dollars and Gonzales Hill became a regional park."