Monday, March 29, 2021

What the people of Ottawa are losing.

 Height restrictions on buildings near Parliament Hill; in the Western Annex(Lebreton Flats) and historic neighbourhoods.

Motor vehicles on the scenic parkways---Sir John A. Macdonald; Sir George Etienne Cartier; Queen Elizabeth Drive. Eventually the parkways will be depaved.

Motor vehicles on Wellington Street in front of the Hill and that includes tour buses.

Shopping malls---Billings Bridge; Westgate; Lincoln Fields, Herongate.

 The ban on redevelopment of the Greenbelt.

 Recreational centres and land:

1.) Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Road, along the easterly limits of Mechanicsville and Hintonburg, south of both Albert and Scott Streets. 1.8 ha. Height Limit-11 m but not for residential. Site was former CP Rail Yard including roundhouse and several rail lines|sidings...Land zoned Community Leisure Facility cannot be developed for residential without a Zoning By-Law Amendment. 

2.) Bob MacQuarrie Recreational Centre, 1490 Youville Drive. Located in the former City of Gloucester just south of Highway 174 and Jeanne d'Arc interchange along the westerly limits of the community of Convent Glen South. 4.3 ha. Height Limit-15 m but not for residential. 

3.) RCGT Park baseball stadium, 300 Coventry Road. The site is located in the community of Overbrook south of Coventry and northeast of the Vanier Parkway and Highway 417(the Queensway).6.664 ha. Requirement to disengage from stadium uses.

4.) The Dalhousie Community Centre, 755 Somerset Street West was recently given away.`

The Dominion Observatory Campus on Carling. The Classified Heritage Buildings may collapse when blasting for the adjacent medical centre occurs. Astronomer Arthur Covington wrote a letter to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1970, asking the Prime Minister to save the Astrophysical Observatory which he did. 

 Agriculture Minister John Wise was totally against the privatization of the 91-acre Clyde/Merivale property: House of Commons, Ottawa May 13, 1988: "Agriculture Canada, my Department, has no plans or thoughts whatsoever of disposing of any portion of that property at any time. There is no question about that." Laurentian High School land at Clyde and Baseline is now owned by Walmart.

Parks that are larger than a hectare. Jacques Greber in 1950 stated that the National Capital has so much land that publicly-owned and vast expanses of green space should be accessible for everyone. Especially for families who live in apartments and do not have backyards. 

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