Condominiums will be constructed on the Dow's Lake parking lot and Queen Juliana Park.

"FEDCO has approved my motion, moved by Coun. Dudas, to slightly alter the ward boundary between Capital and River Wards, by moving the Dow's Lake Pavilion parking lot into River Ward to ensure the entire Ottawa Hospital project is in one ward." River Ward Councillor Riley Brockington, December 1, 2020. Part of the Experimental Farm was rezoned from Open Space to General Urban Area, to permit the construction of residential towers.The property reserved for the Civic Hospital is Institutional.

.Application #D01 ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT 520 Preston Street, 930 Carling Avenue-Official Plan Amendment-No Appeal. Adopted July 16, 2018. "Description - the purpose of the amendment is to facilitate the use of the selected site for a new hospital. The amendment would remove approximately 5 ha. (12 acres) of land designated as Agricultural Research Area within the current Central Experimental Farm boundary and designate these lands as General Urban Area."

According to Ottawa Citizen reporter Jon Willing, the Dow's Lake parking lot will be the focus of redevelopment: "According to the proposed rezoning map, the maximum height for a building in the middle of the hospital land will be about 10 storeys. Closer to the train station, the Preston-Carling secondary plan would kick in. The maximum heights in that plan allow for 20 storeys southwest of the station. The rezoning application also includes the parking lot northwest of the Dow's Lake pavilion. The land would change from an open space and park to a mixed-use centre." (From: "City files application for new Civic hospital land." Jon Willing, August 18, 2017.)

"Group calls for inquiry into Civic hospital move." "Reimagine Ottawa says 2016 decision to move Civic campus to Sir John Carling site lacked transparency."CBC News, January 17, 2018.)

Former Ottawa City Councillor and mayoral candidate Clive Doucet, and other members of Reimagine Ottawa.(CBC News photo.)

"Facing Dow's Lake and the Rideau Canal World Heritage Site:Some of the city's tallest and finest mixed-use buildings will cluster around the Carling Avenue O-Train/future LRT station." (From: Preston-Carling District Secondary Plan-3.0 Vison.)

As I have said before, during the Second World War, temporary buildings were constructed on the Dow's Lake parking lot and 870 Carling Avenue. The Government of Canada stated that the land would always be an open space when buildings #5 and #8 were removed:

Temporary building #5 on the parking lot and temporary #8 on Queen Juliana Park, 870 Carling Avenue. 

Hon. George James McIlraith (Ottawa-West) Liberal-"...Has the minister come to any conclusion as to what will be done with the land on the experimental farm now occupied by the temporary buildings when they are removed?"

Hon. Howard Charles Green (Minister of Public Works): "I take it that the hon. member for Ottawa-West refers to temporary buildings Nos. 5 and 8. For some years the policy has been that when these temporary buildings are torn down nothing will be constructed on the site." (House of Commons, June 16, 1958.)

The people of Canada have already lost 91 acres of the Farm at Clyde and Merivale. Federal Minister of Agriculture John Wise was opposed to that sale, for a massive subdivision including townhouses and senior citizen highrise buildings.  The 22-acre Commissioners Park at Carling and Preston is part of the Greenbelt.

 Prince of Wales Drive is being widened, from two lanes to four lanes.(From: "Dow's Lake-Glebe Report, June 11, 2010.") QJP is on the left and the $4 million dollar Dow's Lake parking lot is on the right.