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Reading the draft of Ottawa’s new Official Plan, one is forced to conclude that urban planners and city councillors have gotten development wrong for at least 100 years. Don’t worry. The people now in charge at city hall have a plan to fix that.
The details of that plan are creating a certain amount of alarm in Alta Vista, which is no surprise because the city would like the neighbourhood to redevelop at about four times its current density. Alta Vista needs to be fixed, you see, as does a vast swath of the city that planners have romantically dubbed the Inner Urban Transect.