Rochester Field is a National Interest Land Mass.

Maplelawn, 529 Richmond Road, Westboro.

   General Meeting 26 September 2001 Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital.     

"A local parents group is unwilling to consider a nearby school that is closing and wants to build on the Maplelawn site instead. There had been earlier plans to build a road there. All this despite this land being part of the National Interest Land Mass. (to be verified.)

Planning and Environment Committee City of Ottawa May 24, 2005. Saving the park. "...It is an open space that he has lived across the street from since 1971...He has been in the Rochester home several times and had many conversations with Lloyd Rochester... Mr. Rochester told him that the land next to the house was intended to stay with the house."

Amy's Corner by Amy Kempster- Champlain Speaker, March 2004, Volume 23, Number 6.

"As expected, the NCC has appealed designation for four pieces of land and four policies in the city's new Official Plan. The pieces in question are designated Major Open Space (a designation allowing largely recreational uses plus small-scale community activities which contribute to such uses.) The NCC wishes the designations to be General Urban Area, which allows most land uses."

     "The land closest to our community is west and north of Maplelawn fronting on Richmond Road. If the NCC wins the appeal (with the Ontario Municipal Board) they could then ask for a zoning amendment. Their appeal states this parcel is not deemed to form part of the "National Interest Land Mass" which suggests the NCC would declare it surplus, if they have not yet done so."

     "In his campaign literature, our councillor suggested he would ask the city to obtain the Maplelawn field (Rochester Field) for a park, so perhaps he knew it was in danger of disposal by the NCC."