Well let’s see – NCC zero, City of Ottawa winner. LRT stop on Elgin Street & Wellington Street.
However – NCC with little guys – bang on, let’s bully. NCC never ceases to amaze me. Stupid disparate planning, ineffective vision and obscure policies that should be public in light of the fact that it is charged with making a best of breed model based on Greber’s original urban vision for the National Capital.
Having worked for dozens of years on Greber Boulvard in Gatineau, I can certainly tell you no one hold it in high esteem while driving on that stretch of road in Gatineau. In fact I would call it derelict at best.
What the NCC needs now, is a good kick in the ass to set it scurrying around looking for better partners to set scope, vision and action on the National Capital.
At this rate, mark my words – the NCC is looking to divest itself of the Experimental Farm in a way that would minimize it’s up front crook/mob status without raising any public eyebrows in the process. If it could, it would be done in a flash.
It’s prime land and without a doubt coveted by builders/developers far and wide.
Don’t let them fool you into believing otherwise – one just has to take a look over yonder to Central Park and Ashcroft developments and the former old Laurentian High School which was deemed surplus and sold to Walmart & company. All in the space of less than a decade. And that my friends was with the help of the City of Ottawa and the public school board. Yep even J.S. Woodworth closed down on Chesterton Drive.
But let’s not forget the ‘REAL’ reason around the Experimental Farm – the former Nortel campus and now government property swap. There’s a huge story in there if someone is willing to be persistent and dig till they hit gold. Just be careful though – it’s a powderkeg and booby trapped like the Mayan End of the World thing.
That one was a direct veiled assault and kick me in the ass attempt to derail me.
Tsk Tsk, wait till I have fun with that.
Live~NRGY 
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