The division between a hospital and a farm.

Agriculture Canada plans are in the first paragraphs...

1.  The roads and pathways. Internal Roadways." The internal road streetscapes are generally appropriate in scale and treatment to their landscape setting...No internal road widenings should be permitted...Many internal roads have curbs but their narrow width and the simplicity of the curbing supports a rural character. Roads that are not already curbed should not be curbed." (CEF National Historic Site Management Plan-18-20.)

"The National Capital Commission Scenic Driveway is a tree covered route flanked with bike trails. All of the roads serving the site with the exception of Prince of Wales Drive are expected to be widened to account for a greater density of traffic." ( Regenerating the Experimental Farm, 2016, page 30/74.) "I believe that Prince of Wales could become a four-lane road leaving Isabella Preston's trees closer to salt and traffic." (Friends of the CEF newsletter, page 3, Spring of 2018.)

The National Capital Commission Scenic Driveway will be widened.

 2.  The hedge collection between Maple and Birch: Guidelines: "Hedges, and especially new and old hedge collections are important landscape resources on the Farm. The hedge collection should be considered as part of the recommended study on trees." (CEF National Historic Site Management Plan.)

Agriculture Canada employees were forced to dig up a hedge collection that was near the evicted DARA Tennis Club. "AAFC is moving the historic hedge collection." ( The Sir John Carling site, Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital.) 

3.  Sir John Carling Building cafeteria annex.-Agriculture Canada employees wanted to convert the cafeteria annex into a visitor's centre and a museum. "Redevelopment of the Carling building site to become a visitor's centre and to house the national seed and insect collections."  (CEF National Historic Site Management Plan-18-20.)

The medical centre is demolishing the cafeteria annex."A process has been initiated to demolish the Annex." ( Google: "Neighbours pore over details of future Civic Hospital Plan" by Kate Porter, CBC News, May 31, 2021. Go to: "... people must pore over documents made public on city's website." "Cultural Heritage Impact Statement, page 3/186.)

4. Parking Guidelines: "Generally parking area on the site should be dispersed into small discreet pockets wherever possible and sited to the side or rear of the front facade of buildings." (CEF National Historic Site of Canada Management Plan, 18-20.)

The Civic hospital needs massive parking lots.

5.  Infrastructure: "No buildings will be built on the central experimental farm except for buildings for the Department of Agriculture." A statement by the Hon. George McIlraith, Minister of Public Works, in the House of Commons, June 16, 1958. During World War 11, temporary buildings #5 and # 8 were constructed adjacent to Dow's Lake and Queen Juliana Park respectively. Once they were demolished, the land was supposed to be an open space.

A few years ago the Dow's Lake parking lot and Queen Juliana Park were given to a medical centre. "When construction begins in 2024, the site will be bustling with between 1,500 and 2,000 building and construction workers every day." (The New Civic Development for the Ottawa Hospital-Checkpoint-May 2021, page 6/12.)

6. The Farm was the National Capital's Central Park." The Experimental Farm forms a central park within a residential area of the City of Ottawa." (The Greber Report of 1950, page 167/395.)

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Concerns. The medical centre needs more property for expansion in the future--- will the CFIA Lab, Neatby Building and greenhouses be leveled? Will the DND properties on Navy Private be transferred to the Civic? The RCN Curling Club has to relocate because DND raised their rent 1,000 percent. "The panel understands that the full build of the hospital is dependent on a future needs assessment...The Panel is concerned with the scale of the proposed development and finds that the project is of a completely different scale from the surrounding neighbourhood." (City of Ottawa Urban Design Review Panel, March 1, 2018. 930 Carling Avenue and 520 Preston Street|Formal Review.)

 "Friends of the Farm raises concerns about future hospital impact on gardens, arboretum."  ("Ottawa West News" Melissa Murray, March 13, 2017.)

Zoning changes. National Capital Commission's Plan for Canada's Capital - pertaining to the CEF: "Lands east of Prince of Wales Drive are Urban Green Space; the Rideau Canal and nearby CEF shore lands are Waterway and Shore Lands; the Canada Agricultural Museum lands are National Cultural Institution; Lands near Carling are Federal Node." (Google: "CEF National Historic Site Management Plan-7-20.)

The loss of trees. "Based on the results of the tree inventory a total of 680 trees will be removed." (New Civic Development for the Ottawa Hospital, Environmental Impact Statement and Tree Conservation Report, page 21/73. A map showing the exact location of the doomed trees can be found on page 44/73.)

Corporate executives want to transform Carling Avenue into a Hospital Row similar to University Avenue in Toronto. The 1,000 acre National Historic Site and Commissioner's Park are impeding that effort.

Potential light pollution. The Royal Ottawa Hospital is located on 1145 Carling Avenue, less than a mile from the Agriculture Canada property. For a year their sign was "an artificial moon glowing through the windows of nearby houses, disrupting sleep and fraying nerves...Some Carlington residents say the sign is too big and too bright. "I just think its bizarre they put it up. It's not Vegas." "The Royal Ottawa Hospital is a mental health facility, not a hospital with emergency services." "We spent a year asking them nicely and they spent a year ignoring us." (Royal Ottawa's sign sparks anger-pressreader-February 11, 2008.)