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Originally Posted by acottawa
There are a fair number of sizable chunks of land in central parts of the city that don't require any demolitions, including the site they just gave to the hospital, part of the the CEF, Hurdman, the land between the LAC and river (mostly parking lots), the poorly-defined greenspace between the Veterans Memorial building and the claridge condo (including the GPT), part of the Lebreton flats). It probably isn't possible to get a Central Park sized park (unless the CEF is fully-converted to a park) but there are lots of places to fit a good-sized park. It would also be possible to convert an existing greenspace (such as Vincent Massey/Hogg's back) into a less-restrictive space that could support a more diverse range of activities.
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None of those locations would be terribly well-used spaces; they suffer from the same inherent problems that too many other Ottawa parks do: edge vacuum, not stitched into the urban fabric, green space for green space's sake.
The only thing central about the Central Experimental Farm is the word in its name, which has nothing to do with its location in Ottawa.
Ottawa might lack in
animated urban parks... the solution is not to establish more city-deadening public space. It is to better stitch existing publicopengreenspaces more tightly into the urban fabric, including by tightly surround them with things that aren't parks (how many green spaces border other green spaces?), and to get the collective board out of the arses of the city and NCC to allow people to let their hairs down a little.
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