HomeLooking to the Centre in Canada’s Capital Region
As you drive into the centre of Canada’s Capital, you may see the landscaped banks of the Rideau Canal, federal parks, monuments, government offices, heritage buildings and the Ottawa River’s protected shorelines. Many of these are urban lands that the NCC has planned and developed.
What kind of plan?
The Capital Urban Lands Master Plan will express a long-term vision of how properties of federal interest in the urban part of the Capital region will change and develop over time.
Capital urban lands are generally located either inside the Greenbelt (in the City of Ottawa), or within the City of Gatineau (excluding agriculturally zoned lands and Gatineau Park). They include two types of land of Capital importance:
- Federal lands (parkways and pathways, federal employment nodes, national cultural institutions, parks, waterways and shorelines)
- Non-federal lands (the rest of the core area and major entry routes into the urban area)
The Capital Urban Lands Master Plan is being completed in stages. A number of sector plans have already been approved.
- Canada's Capital Core Area Sector Plan (approved 2005)
- The Central Experimental Farm, National Historic Site Management Plan (approved 2004)
- Leamy Lake Park Sector Plan (approved 1998)
- Confederation Heights Sector Plan (approved 2000)
- Ottawa River Parkway Corridor Plan
- Other Capital Urban Lands