City files planning application for new Civic hospital land

The City of Ottawa has started paving the way for the Ottawa Hospital’s relocation of the Civic campus to a chunk of the Central Experimental Farm.
The city’s planning department recently filed the rezoning application which, if approved by council, will make the necessary changes in the official plan to essentially hive off the future hospital land from the rest of the research farm.
The federal government is making available 21 hectares of the old Sir John Carling site at the east