VAUGHAN, Ont. - Liberal Leader Mark Carney says his government would double Canada’s rate of residential housing construction over the next decade to nearly 500,000 new homes per year.
The feds own a lot of land in downtown Ottawa. Tunney’s Pasture alone is huge. I’m not sure that’s true elsewhere. Does Thunder Bay have a sizeable block of federally owned land, for example?
I mean, even in Ottawa is there actually enough federal land for that to matter? And if it’s not enough there, there definitely isn’t enough in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Victoria, etc.
There’s enough in Ottawa for sure. Remember the NCC is also a Federal Commission not Provincial nor Municipal. But also there is a lot of federal agencies present in Ottawa (because it is the Capital) looking to move out of their current facilities/office space.
I understand it is highly location specific. There’s a significant impact in Ottawa and, because I am speaking as someone from Ottawa, I made a comment about it. Considering that Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Victory, etc. are not the Federal Capital, this particular policy would not affect those cities as much or at all, depending. Again, it having a positive impact in once city but not everywhere while at the same time there being no negative effect should not mean the policy should not be looked at. It’s good for Ottawa, at least, and not bad for anyone? So what’s the problem with that?
Redeveloping public owned lands in cities should be a start. I’ve been to community meetings to discuss redeveloping federal land in Ottawa.
Ottawa has a significant amount of federal land. Transforming unused federal office space to mixed used residential will be a game changer.
There is a crown corp that now owns public federal land and is either redeveloping for mixed use or for tourism:
https://www.clc-sic.ca/
They also own the CN Tower. Beefing this up would be great.
The feds own a lot of land in downtown Ottawa. Tunney’s Pasture alone is huge. I’m not sure that’s true elsewhere. Does Thunder Bay have a sizeable block of federally owned land, for example?
I don’t know. You’d have to look that up.
I’m from Ottawa, not Thunder Bay so I cannot answer that question.
I mean, even in Ottawa is there actually enough federal land for that to matter? And if it’s not enough there, there definitely isn’t enough in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Victoria, etc.
There’s enough in Ottawa for sure. Remember the NCC is also a Federal Commission not Provincial nor Municipal. But also there is a lot of federal agencies present in Ottawa (because it is the Capital) looking to move out of their current facilities/office space.
I understand it is highly location specific. There’s a significant impact in Ottawa and, because I am speaking as someone from Ottawa, I made a comment about it. Considering that Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Victory, etc. are not the Federal Capital, this particular policy would not affect those cities as much or at all, depending. Again, it having a positive impact in once city but not everywhere while at the same time there being no negative effect should not mean the policy should not be looked at. It’s good for Ottawa, at least, and not bad for anyone? So what’s the problem with that?