Regulations that may save Experimental Farm.

"No new buildings or significant hard landscape features should interrupt the predominance of the soft landscape and pastoral quality of this zone." 

Entry Zone features:

• Expansive lawn areas with mature specimen trees and curving paths.
• Long, framed vistas and varied, dramatic topography.
• Overlooks to Dow's Lake and the Rideau Canal. (Google: "CEF National Historic Site Management Plan-Part 18-20". A report that was prepared by the Federal Department of Agriculture and Agri-food Canada.)

"No future road widenings should be permitted within the CEF....The environmental resources of this zone, including wetland, woodland, and grassland subzones as identified in the City of Ottawa Natural Open Space (NOSS) report should be protected and enhanced."

A recent City of Ottawa zoning by law pertaining to the property

 L3 Central Experimental Farm (Section 177). Purpose of the Zone - The purpose of the L3-CEF Zone is to:

1.)  allow a range of uses on land designated as Agricultural Research Area in the Official Plan that will help to support and conserve the cultural, scientific and historical value of the Central Experimental Farm for present and for future generations.

PERMITTED USES  

agricultural use.

environmental preserve and education area.

experimental farm and ancillary offices.

museum limited to agricultural museum.

on-farm diversified use, limited to a place of assembly.

park limited to agricultural research.

research and development centre.

urban agriculture.

As I have mentioned before, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada executives wanted to convert the Sir John Carling Building annex into a visitor's centre and a museum. An inobtrusive building could have been constructed for that purpose.I can envision a brand-new tourism centre, where visitors could be given maps detailing where the greenhouses, barns, Arboretum, ornamental gardens, Fletcher Wildlife Gardens and other landmarks are located.

 Many Canadians are unaware of the fact that astonomers at the Ottawa Observatory found Planet X. I can imagine Comic-Con conventions where astronauts recount their adventures in space, and people dress up in futuristic costumes. Do not let the Civic Hospital block the entrance to Maple Drive and make it impossible for people to visit the Dominion Observatory. The grounds at the Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles, California are totally accessible to the public.

Reinstate the telescope and give future generations the opportunity to discover our wondrous universe.

The former Gonzales Astrophysical Observatory at 302 Denison Road, Victoria, British Columbia. The Government of Canada privatized the landmark and sold it for $35,000 dollars.

Saving the trees.