Parking.

"There's a high probability that car arrivals at the campus in 2028 will far exceed parking capacity. (See last month's Glebe Report.) The impact of this parking shortage on staff, patients and visitors, as well as neighbours will be severe. There's been no concerted effort to mitigate this risk with a Traffic Management Project. Even if a Traffic Management Project was underway, its probability of complete success would be low."

"Some citizens have suggested TOH use offsite parking facilities-maybe even at the existing Civic campus-with shuttle buses serving the new campus. TOH has refused to consider this. Others have suggested moving the towers off the campus; this seems to be unacceptable. 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. But since there's no publicly available risk mitigation plan this is just speculation." (Risk Management and the new Civic Hospital, The Glebe Report, March 2022, page 8.)

"There does not appear to be any kind of buffer between staff parking and the Dominion Observatory Complex." (Part of a letter to Sean Moore, City of Ottawa Planner, from Heritage Ottawa, June 18, 2021---Impact to the CEF NHS Designated Heritage Structures and Rideau Canal.)