Are the Mooney's Bay, Hog's Back and Vincent Massey Parks being transferred to the City of Ottawa?

Confederation Heights redevelopment plans.  A Road Network. iii "City Council shall support the ownership transfer from Public Works and Government Services Canada to the City, those portions of Heron Road and Riverside Drive that traverse the Confederation Heights area to have them formally integrated as part of the arterial road network."

iii "Council shall consider the appraisal of any lands to be transferred in the context of their current use as open space, their classification as open space in the City of Ottawa Official Plan and in consideration that they will remain as open space."

 "In lieu of payment the parkland levy by the Federal Government and/or partners involved in the development of lands within the Confederation Heights Employment Centre, with the exception of the Canada Post Headquarters, may direct the developers to pay the NCC the cash equivalent of the levy, subject to a further agreement between the City and the NCC to transfer title of Federal lands now leased to the City of Ottawa for park purposes."

If the municipality ever gets its hands on Mooney's Bay, Hog's Back and Vincent Massey Park, they will not be open spaces for very long:

Recreational Land Strategy for Ottawa, 2006-2031. 4.4.2. Parks and Open Spaces. "The City's requirements for parks and open spaces may have to be revisited to ensure that the types of spaces required of developers reflect the need for quality spaces of all sorts (active, passive, programmed, soft-surface and hard-surface) at the right location, and at the right sizes. The goals of a review of parks and recreational land should be "Quality over quantity of space should be the guiding principle." Parks don't have to be grassy to be green. One of the many types of public green space is the plaza. Sized right and positioned at the heart of a community, it becomes a genuine focal point. The city should accept parkettes as part of the 5% parkland dedication." (A parkette or pocket park is less than 0.5 hectares---savecfbrockcliffe.)

Federal properties divested to the City of Ottawa---the Laurier Avenue Bridge and Mackenzie King Bridge that span the Rideau Canal; the Normal School on Elgin Street that is part of Ottawa City Hall; the Beaver Barracks; 1010 Somerset Street West.

Similarities to the Moffat Farm, 1709 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa. Moffat Farm was an 84-acre Veterans Affairs property located near Mooney's Bay and Hog's Back. Mayor Bob Chiarelli and the entire City Council wanted to buy the land so that it would remain a green space.

Federal parks located beside the Rideau Canal/Rideau River cannot be sold or subdivided because they are part of the National Interest Land Mass: "The National Interest Land Mass (NILM) consists of "national shrines, the river and canal banks, the Confederation Boulevard, the Gatineau Park, and the Greenbelt in the National Capital Region...considered essential to the realization of the Vision of the Capital."

"Land forming part of the NILM will be retained by the NCC on behalf of the government in perpetuity, for purposes which lie at the core of the NCC's mandate." Rideau Canal lands from downtown to Hog's Back Road-90 hectares or 222 acres. (Google: 1988-09-15-TB-re-NCC.)

The Greber Report of 1950 designated 900 square miles of greenspace in the National Capital Region as a memorial in perpetuity to Canadians who were killed fighting in foreign wars. That includes includes Gatineau Park, the Greenbelt and federal parks. Commissioners at Preston, Major's Hill and Wesley Clover Park are part of the memorial.

The Farm was supposed to be off-limits to residential developers: "It was confirmed that the land in question was acquired by the federal government to commemorate World War 11 veterans and became NCC property in 1960. Mr. Lindsay indicated Moffat Farm was designated in the Regional Official Plan of 1977 and in subsequent amendments in 1988 and 1997 as Waterfront Open Space which precluded residential development. The property was designated for federal land use as a Capital park of national interest." (The Moffat Farm was a National Interest Land Mass-savecfbrockcliffe.) (Google: City of Ottawa planning and development Moffat Farm February 28, 2002.")

A "surplus" property that was owned by Public Works and Government Services//the people of Canada, 1010 Somerset Street West.

The Greenbelt-"The City of Ottawa has identified more than 13,700 acres of the Greenbelt that could be developed." (White Paper-Development in the Greenbelt-May 27, 2008.) The Greenbelt is untouchable, it is part of the 900 square mile memorial to Canadian soldiers, see the Greber Report.