The Preston-Carling Area Secondary Plan.

 Planning Area.

"This chapter applies to the Preston-Carling District, bounded on the north by Highway 417 and Orangeville Street; on the east by Rochester Street and Booth Street; on the south by Carling Avenue, Prince of Wales and the Central Experiment(al) Farm, and Norman Street; on the west by Bayswater Avenue, Sherwood Drive, Breezehill Avenue South, Hickory Street, Loretta Avenue South, Beech Street and Railway Street."

Highlights. My comments are italicized.

1.) "The Preston-Carling District is...surrounded by federal government facilities, family-friendly neighbourhoods and an abundant supply of beautiful open spaces." What federal government facilities? What beautiful open spaces? (The exception being Commissioners Park.) Most of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources has been decommissioned; Riley Brockington all but admitted that the Observatory is doomed. And a sprawling medical centre is being constructed on the CEF. Ev Tremblay Park cannot expand because of recent and projected real estate developments. 

2.)  "The enhanced public realm throughout the area will allow for festivals such the traditional Italian Week to continuously celebrate the culture and people of this colourful district." Italian Week was celebrated on Juliana Park but now a cluster of the tallest buildings in the city are being built on QJP.  The Department of National Defence Armoury land on 933 Gladstone would have been a beautiful open space but that property has been snapped up.

3.)  "Some of the city's tallest and finest mixed-use buildings will cluster around the Carling Avenue 0-Train/future light rail transit (LRT) station. These buildings will form a new, exciting, and distinctive downtown skyline with transition towards the adjacent stable low-rise residential neighbourhood. Facing Dow's Lake and the Rideau Canal World Heritage Site, one of the most significant tourism and recreation destinations in the National Capital Region, these buildings will collectively present an image that is important not only to the city but also to the entire country." Who wants a Wall of China that separates tourist attractions from the street.

4.)  "The east-west Carling transit corridor will also be enhanced and in the long term will see an at-grade LRT." I cannot understand why this avenue needs an LRT... Unless... thousands of condominium units are projected for:

 the Westgate Mall, Carlingwood Mall and Lincoln Fields;

the grounds of the Civic, which revert to the city when the medical centre is torn down; and vacant land across from the hospital. 

A photograph I took on Canada Day 2019, close to where I live in Bayshore. You can see how busy this 4-lane arterial street is.Sometimes half an hour goes by without one vehicle driving by. LRT? Are you kidding me?

5.)  High rise developments with a height greater than 30 storeys and up to a maximum of 55 storeys may be permitted on properties fronting Carling east of the LRT and west of Norfolk Avenue. Norfolk Avenue is opposite a commemorative landscape that honours Canadian Soldiers.Members of the Dutch Royal Family visited Commissioners Park: Her Majesty Queen Juliana and H.R.H. Prince Bernhard; Her Majesty Queen Beatrix and H.R.H. Princess Margriet. It is a major location for the Tulip Festival.

My Dad gave me this photo of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard at the Tulip Festival, Dow's Lake.

May 18, 1967. An Ottawa Journal article.

Towers greater than 30 storeys tall are permitted on land west of Norfolk Avenue, opposite Commissioners Park.

6.)  Mid-rise development up to nine storeys may be permitted on the property located at 93 to 105 Norman Street. The planning/zoning decision was appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board, see "The OMB and Norman Street."