Sunday, February 4, 2024

Heritage Conservation Districts in the city of Ottawa.

 Overview - "Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act allows municipalities to recognize and protect neighbourhoods, rural landscapes, main streets, or other areas of special cultural heritage value that have a cohesive sense of time and place. Designated heritage districts often enjoy a renewed cultural and economic vitality not only because district designation highlights their special values but also because they are protected from decay and the intrusion of incompatible structures."

Bank Street (By-law 175-2000)

Besserer-Wurtemburg (By-law 2018-339)

Briarcliffe (By-law 2013-65)

ByWard Market (By-law 60-91)

(Carlington North Veterans' Housing - Veterans' Housing Heritage Character Area. Bounded by Carling Avenue to the north, Fisher Avenue to the east, General and Marshall Avenues to the south and Merivale Road to the west. September 10, 2021 - "The City of Ottawa has directed heritage planning staff to conduct a heritage analysis of the veterans housing subdivisions on Carlington North to determine cultural heritage value and consider strategies for conservation and commemoration" 

"Proposed changes to a Heritage Character Area do not require the approval of Council, unlike a designated Heritage Conservation District which is protected by the Ontario Heritage Act." (Heritage Ottawa, May 12, 2022.)

 savecfbrockcliffe-I believe that powerful entities have their eye on the Veterans Housing units, which are located on valuable land. Deals have probably already been made regarding demolition, rezoning, intensification and air rights. "The housing crisis" will be used as an excuse to validate the destruction of this area.  There is a reason why this property is a Heritage Character Area and not a Heritage Conservation District. The Wartime Housing should be the legally protected by the designation "Heritage Conservation District". 20 years ago an Ottawa City Councillor said that "Carling Avenue will be a wall of condos."

Veterans properties that were privatized or sold to a province:

Rideau Veterans Lodge on 363 Smyth Road.

Wallis House on 589 Rideau Street.

Benny Farm in Montreal.

Moffat Farm near Mooney's Bay

Sunnybrook Veterans Hospital in Toronto.

Shaughnessy Military Hospital was sold to the province of BC and it will be demolished.

Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, BC.

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Cathedral Hill (By-law 286-89)

Centretown (By-law 269-97)

Clemow Estate East (By-law 2011-346)

Clemow - Monkland Driveway and Linden Terrace (By-law 2020-287)

Daly Avenue (By-law 308-82)

King Edward Avenue (By-law 310-82)

Lorne Avenue (By-law 2005-13)

Lowertown West (By-law 192-94)

Minto Park (By-law 142-88)

New Edinburgh (By-law 2001-44)

Rockcliffe Park (By-law 97-10)

Russell - Range (By-law 2018-338)

Sandy Hill West (By-law 255-94)

Sparks Street (By-law 174-2000)

Stewart-Wilbrod (By-law 311-82)

Sweetland Avenue (By-law 309-82)

Wilbrod-Laurier (By-law 307-82)

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau tried to protect the Parliamentary Precinct from demolition and inappropriate development. The Precinct includes the Parliament Buildings, Lebreton Flats, the Sparks Street Mall and the Dominion Observatory.

House of Commons Ottawa July 20, 1973 The Hon. Jean-Eudes Dube (Minister of Public Works) "...I have today, on behalf of the government, filed a notice of intent to expropriate all the land and buildings in the area bounded by Wellington Street, Elgin Street, Sparks Street and Bank Street. The purpose of this expropriation is to protect the environment of Parliament from any development which could adversely affect it, and simultaneously provide the land for an appropriate expansion of Parliamentary facilities and other governmental requirements..." 

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