Monday, July 28, 2025

Ottawa Councillors who tried to save Rochester Park in Westboro.

  • Jeff Leiper
  • Rick Chiarelli
  • Jean Cloutier
  • Allan Hubley
Ottawa Councillors who wanted to see the park on 529 Richmond Road redeveloped:
  • Stephen Blais
  • Tobi Nussbaum
  • Riley Brockington
  • Tim Tierney
  • Shad Qadri
  • Jan Harder 
(All information is from "City planning committee approves new Rochester Field deal with NCC" by Jon Willing, Ottawa Citizen, January 23, 2018.)

Rochester Field has been added to the Canada Public Land Bank---"There are currently 90 properties listed, representing the potential for the construction of thousands of housing units on a total of 473 hectares of land across Canada."
I mentioned this before---Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Minister of State for Urban Affairs Barney Danson and Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan prevented the expropriation of 700 acres of the Experimental Farm on Carling Avenue, for 7,000 housing units.
A front-page article in the Ottawa Citizen from 1974.

An Ottawa Journal article from 1974. "Mr. Fullerton has suggested that a 700-acre, 7,000 unit housing development replace crops growing in the area north of Base Line Road between Clyde Avenue and Prince of Wales Drive."

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