Forgetting history. (Reposting)

High rise buildings cannot be built on the Lebreton Flats. Lebreton is an annex of the Parliamentary Precinct. House of Commons Ottawa November 23, 1967 The Hon. George McIlraith (Minister of Public Works): "The Lebreton Flats were envisioned as a western extension of the Parliamentary Precinct. Buildings on or near the Parliamentary Precinct cannot be any taller than the Peace Tower." 

Dream Lebreton.

The Dominion Observatory on the Experimental Farm is also an annex of the Precinct: "The popularity of the Observatory occurred when it opened in 1905, due to the support of Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Laurier's advocation reinforced the idea that the Observatory was to be considered an arm of the parliamentary precinct. At the time it was recognized as a national achievement where the nation's time would be kept. The buildings would be symbols of Canada's progress in astronomical science." (From: "Astronomer Mary Grey and the Architecture of Canada's Dominion Observatory". Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Sharon Odell, page 10/67.)

The Ottawa Hospital's Tower A cannot be built because it will create an "irreversible and permanent " loss of views from the Observatory to the sky.

• Potential construction impacts
• Isolation of the complex from its surroundings
• Obstruction or diminishment of significant views of the Dominion Observatory
• Obstruction or impact to views of the night sky from the dome
• Impact of the lighting plan  (page 2/87, City of Ottawa Application #D07-12-22-0168)
• Impacts to views from the Observatory dome to the sky-should a telescope ever be reinstated-will be irreversible and permanent once Tower A of the hospital building is realized. Also, light spillage and pollution can reduce the amount of stars and astrological features visible. (Page 8/87, City of Ottawa Application #D07-12-22-01-68.)

  

  The Dominion Observatory campus along Carling Avenue in Ottawa. The South Azimuth is Building # 4 and it will probably be removed.
  
  

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Civic Hospital will demolish the Observatory campus for the following reasons: a) The hospital does not want irregular parcels of land. b) Maple Drive is being restricted to emergency vehicles, more than 100 trips per day. c) The South Azimuth is interfering with plans to widen Maple Drive. d) The Observatory campus buildings are partly made with Nepean sandstone and they will be impacted by nearby blasting, construction; light, shadow and noise pollution from the rooftop helicopters, towers, hundreds of cars in the parking garage, etc. The Parliament Buildings are also partly made with Nepean sandstone. savecfbrockcliffe.

Saving the green spaces in Little Italy

• The City of Ottawa promised that the Humane Society land on 101 Champagne would be an extension of Ev Tremblay park. But two residential towers were constructed.
• 50 acres of a National Historic Site near Preston were donated to a hospital, including a 14-acre park at Preston and Carling.
• The hospital will need more land by 2028. I believe that Commissioners Park will be given to the hospital for more parking and condos.
• Property behind the High School of Commerce (which I attended) has been earmarked as a development site.
• Plouffe Park may be the location of a school.
• Several politicians (John Baird, John Manley, Barry Mather) and a Mr. Lambert suggested that the Lebreton Flats should be a National Park.

House of Commons Ottawa January 12, 1970 MP Barry Mather (New Democratic Party): "Is the government of Canada reconsidering its plans regarding LeBreton Flats and, if so, is it giving favorable consideration to turning the Flats into a National Park?"

The 130 acre Flats in 1983. The land is 4,450 feet from the Peace Tower, or less than a mile. (House of Commons Ottawa November 23, 1967. The Hon. George McIlraith, Minister of Public Works.)