A landmark.

 Attempts to demolish the Dominion Observatory on Carling Avenue in Ottawa. Reposting.

• 1970 - The building was saved by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, astronomer Arthur Covington and heritage societies.
• 1997 - More than 50 properties on the Farm including the Observatory were facing extinction. ("The fight for the Farm goes on". A Heritage Ottawa newsletter from the spring of 1997.)
• 2016 - The Sir John Carling location. "On this site we have at least 24 buildings, including Buildings 1 to 9, the Natural Resources Campus including the Dominion Observatory...Extensive demolition or relocation of buildings is required for the new build to proceed." (From: New Civic Campus. A 21st century hospital in the heart of Canada's capital. April of 2016, page 10/76).   Currently protected:

• K.W. Neatby #20
• Laboratory Services #22
• Nutrition building #59
• Arboretum Horticulture Centre #74
• Swine barn #91
• Engineering Research #94
• Carpenter Shop #98  (Google: Federal Directory of Real Property website, Agriculture Canada no. 08615. Land area (ha) 409.8200. Building count is 87.)

My classmates and I visited the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in 1965 and we all looked through the telescope. savecfbrockcliffe.  

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 The Carling Towers cannot be built because the Observatory is an annex of the Parliamentary Precinct---- high rises are banned and buffer zones cannot be breached:

"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 this 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 and would be a symbol of Canada's progress in astronomical science." ("Journal of the Study of Architecture in Canada" and "Astronomer Mary Grey and the Architecture of Canada's Dominion Observatory." Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Sharon Odell page 10/67.)

The Parliamentary Precinct includes:

• The Parliament Buildings and Parliament Hill
• The Library of Parliament 
•  Supreme Court of Canada
• Senate of Canada (former Union Station across from the Chateau Laurier)
• Library and Archives Canada
• Federal buildings on Wellington Street across from Parliament Hill
• The northern half of the Sparks Street Mall
• The Lebreton Flats 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."  What this means in my opinion---savecfbrockcliffe:
• public festivals are encouraged on the Lebreton Flats---for example Canada Day, Bluesfest, music and comedy festivals. Also permitted: Museums, libraries and commemorative statues. Condominiums are banned, also hospitals and athletic arenas.

• foreign architects cannot redevelop the buildings across from Parliament Hill and remove my country's Maple Leaf Flag, Coat of Arms, the names of prominent people and the statue of Terry Fox. 
•  Ottawa's Parliamentary Precinct---Wellington Street, the Sparks Street Mall, Lebreton Flats and Dominion Observatory: House of Commons Ottawa July 20, 1973: The Hon. Jean-Eudes Dube (Minister of Public Works): "Concern has been expressed about the danger of visual encroachment on the beauty of the present parliamentary precinct which is one of the great symbols of Canada. We must ensure that nearby developments do not adversely affect it...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 this expropriation, as I have indicated is to protect the environment of Parliament from any development which could adversely affect it."
• going forward, properties along Wellington Street across from the Hill should be owned by all Canadians---not by foreign embassies or by a sector of Canada's population.
• land cannot be removed from Parliament Hill and the Supreme Court of Canada for an Ottawa/Gatineau tram project.
• buffer zones will prevent the loss of the Observatory Campus: