The future of Commissioners Park in Ottawa.

 Queen Juliana Park is located very close to Commissioners. A Reimagine Ottawa photo.

1.)  A Glebe Report article stated that the Ottawa Hospital needs Commissioners Park for parking:

 "There is a high probability that car arrivals at the campus in 2028 will far exceed parking capacity. The impact of this parking shortage on staff, patients and visitors, as well as neighbourhoods will be severe...My best guess is that mitigation will eventually include TOH asking the NCC for more acreage on the Experimental Farm, probably in the Arboretum and along Maple Drive and even in Commissioners Park for another parking garage and more surface parking lots." (From: The Glebe Report, Risk management and the new Civic campus, March 17, 2022.)

2.)  An alternate venue for the many tulips has already been found, Princess Margriet Park on 265 Fairmont Avenue.

3.)  The Preston-Carling District Secondary Plan recommended that high-rise condominiums be clustered around Light Rail Transit; in a few years the Dow's Lake LRT station will be constructed.

The Preston-Carling District Secondary Plan, March 14, 2016.

PLANNING AREA - Bounded on the north by Highway 417, on the east by Rochester Street, on the south by Carling Avenue, Prince of Wales Drive and the Central Experiment Farm, on the west by Bayswater Avenue, Sherwood Drive, Breezehill Avenue South, Hickory Street, Loretta Avenue South, Beech Street and Railway Street. (page 1)

VISION - "Some of the city's tallest and finest mixed-use buildings will cluster around the Carling Avenue O-Train future light rail transit (LRT) station. Facing Dow's Lake and the Rideau Canal World Heritage Site, one of the most significant tourism and recreation destinations in the National Capital Region, these buildings will collectively present an image that is important not only to the City but to the entire country." (page 1)

4.)  The National Capital Commission has no problem converting green space to parking lots, for example the land adjacent to the Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa. Until the year 2011 or 2012 the land was an open space and I used to see people enjoying picnics there.

5.)  Commissioners is part of the Greenbelt, and the Greenbelt is included in a 900-square mile area dedicated in perpetuity to the memory of Canadian soldiers who lost their lives fighting in foreign wars. See "The Greber Report of 1950." The land should always be in federal control---Google: 1988-07-re-ncc-National Interest Land Holdings.