Parkland.

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.)

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 Gatineau Park, the Greenbelt and federal parks.

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 off-limits.