Monday, November 15, 2021

Do not relegate Queen Juliana Park to the top of a parking garage.

A City of Ottawa zoning change sign that was recently planted on Queen Juliana Park.

The Arboretum Woods, Central Experimental Farm Woods and Prince of Wales Woods (CEF) are protected landscapes according to the document "Urban natural features strategy City of Ottawa, April 11, 2006, Category 1."

The Arboretum covers 64 acres of land between Prince of Wales Drive, Dow's Lake and the Rideau Canal. The Arboretum will be encroached upon when Prince of Wales Drive is widened to four lanes to accomodate a hospital trucking route.

A letter to the Hon. Catherine McKenna, Minister Responsible for the Historic Sites and Mouments Board and Federal Heritage Review Board, from Judy Dodds, President, Friends of the Central Experimental Farm: "It has come to our attention that the City of Ottawa is proposing to claim three metres of the CEF's southern border along Baseline Road for a rapid transit route. Moreover, it is understood that a portion of the Arboretum, next to the O-Train line, will be dug up to double track that portion of the transit route, although this area will be replanted." January 16, 2018. (All of the trees in the O-Train trench are being clear cut, as well as the trees surrounding the nearby Dows Lake parking lot.)

Who gave the National Capital Commission the authority to give the Dows Lake parking lot to a provincial institution, and dispose of land at Preston and Carling. The high rise condominiums will cast a shadow over Commissioners Park, a national memorial honouring Canadian soldiers. In fact the entire Farm is part of Jacques Greber's dedication to Canadian service men and women.

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