Major's Hill Park. Chateau Laurier Hotel, November 2020. "Applicant will seek Level 3 and Level 2 NCC approvals for matters related to federal lands." (Google: https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public - engagement/projects/chateau-laurier-addition.) The hotel and the NCC decided to "blend private and public space" and "focus on the interface between the Canal promenade, Major's Hill Park, Mackenzie Avenue and the new addition."
The Experimental Farm along Baseline Road.
Rochester Field beside and behind Maplelawn on Richmond Road. Councillor Jeff Leiper was opposed to any major redevelopment of Rochester Park.
The Sir John Carling Site, Civic Hospital Master Plan, 10 Phases: Construction will be ongoing for 27 years. Google: "New Ottawa Civic Hospital\Proposed (archive)-Page 11-Skyscraper Page Forum." May 29, 2021.
"Phase 5. (2025-2027) The transit connection to TOH Campus will be improved with the opening of the Dow's Lake Light Rail Transit (LRT) Station. Dow's Lake Station is planned on the south side of Carling Avenue near the Champagne Avenue entrance."
"Phase 6. (2024-2029) Future construction of a Research Building on Carling west of Champagne Avenue."
"Phase 7. (2029-2039) Mixed-use towers east of Champagne Avenue will animate the Site's frontage on Carling Avenue."
"Phases 8, 9 and 10 (2045-2048) will be hospital expansions including the new University of Ottawa Heart Institute and vertical expansion of the west tower."
"Roadway modifications may be required along Carling Avenue, Preston Street and Prince of Wales Drive..Ambulatory vehicles are not intended to use the Carling Avenue access across from Champagne Avenue but would access the main hospital either from Prince of Wales Drive or Carling Avenue through Maple Drive." (Widening Prince of Wales Drive will encroach upon the Dominion Arboretum. Twenty years ago a federal property called the Moffat Farm was sold and Prince of Wales Drive was widened 20 metres or 65 feet:
Parks and Parkways of the Federal District Commission, 1949. The FDC is now called the National Capital Commission. "The park and parkway system of the Federal District Commission is justly famous for its utilization of the Federal Capital Area whenever possible. The parks and driveways are and will be located along the banks of the Rideau and Ottawa Rivers, the Rideau Canal and Dow's Lake."
" In all, about twenty-two miles of parkways have been developed over a period of many years. The park and park sysyem comprises areas of natural beauty which were acquired by the Commission to ensure their retention and protection...The following areas of open space are owned or controlled by the Commission": Name of Park or Driveway:
Bronson Park, Clemow and Monkland Avenues; Confederation Park; Central Park and Linden Terraces; Dow's Lake Park and Playgrounds; Echo Drive; Experimental Farm Driveway; Eastview Park; Island Park Driveway; King Edward Avenue Park; Lady Grey Drive; Nepean Park; Lake Flora Park, Hull; Major's Hill Park; Macdonald Garden; Nicholas Street Park; Parc Jacques Cartier, Hull; Rockcliffe Park; Rideau Canal Driveway; Strathcona Park; Dundonald Park; Val Tetreau Park, Hull. ("Federal District Commission Annual Report, 1949" page 37/75.)
The entire Experimental Farm in Ottawa is already protected by the Canadian Parliament and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada in perpetuity---savecfbrockcliffe: House of Commons Ottawa November 4, 1974. The Hon. Pierre De Bane (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Urban Affairs) Liberal: "I can assure the hon. member that there is no question of replacing the green spaces already existing in the national capital region with buildings...the long term preservation of these resources must be ensured and at the same time the public must have access to them...A typical example of this, of course, the Experimental Farm in the centre of the city of Ottawa."
House of Commons Ottawa February 9, 1998. Statements in the House. Member of Parliament Marlene Catterall (Ottawa West-Nepean.) Liberal: "Mr. Speaker, last week the Secretary of State for Parks and the minister of agriculture designated the Central Experimental Farm as a national historic site. This does not mean that the farm will be frozen in time. It will continue to evolve as it has for 111 years but it will evolve in a way that is consistent with the important contribution it has made to agriculture in Canada and internationally."
"It will be a permanent visible reminder in the nation's capital to all Canadians of the importance of agriculture to our economic and social development. The people of this region are proud of the nation's capital and its national institutions. I know they will want to contribute to and be part of the planning of the future of the Central Experimental Farm, our newest national historic site."
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