Friends of Lansdowne Park Antics

This past Monday, Friends of Lansdowne (a group against the current renovation project to Lansdowne Park) won a minor victory in getting the courts to delay legal proceedings in the ongoing legal battle over the Lansdowne renovations. FLP Park as mentioned in previous blog postings are arguing that the city council of Ottawa did not act appropriately in the bid process for the Lansdowne renovations. In their opinion because there was only one bid submitted, the City Council of Ottawa acted in bad faith in allowing the sole bid to go through without competition. As mentioned (again) before this to me is ludicrous as EVERY company was given ample time to bid on the renovations, just most every company but ONE chose not to. In addition, FLP is also arguing that Lansdowne Park should be a heritage site, and the renovation bid will not be taking that into consideration. My question to them, have they seen the proposal? The new Frank Clair looks amazing! The hearing is now scheduled for sometime in June, which will give FLP enough time to check over all the documents the bid company had sent in their submission.

This ruling has me very irritated as now the renovation process to Lansdowne will have to be put on hold until an even further date. CFL in Ottawa is still scheduled to go by 2013, but you have to wonder when they will begin the physical process of the renovations. Time is money, and time is dwindling!

FLP have a website, http://www.letsgetitright.ca. Please note that they have scheduled meeting times on their website to discuss Lansdowne Park and its future. Specifically on March 24th, the Council of Canadians are holding a public meeting at 7 p.m at the Knox Presbyterian Church on 120 Lisgar (at Elgin). At this meeting they will be discussing the privatization of public spaces. I’m sure FLP will be there, and if I was around Ottawa at this time I would definitely go! Unfortunately, I’m way over in Newfoundland at the present, so I urge anyone and everyone who would love to see CFL in Ottawa again to go out to this meeting and fight for the current bid to the renovations of Lansdowne Park!

Let’s get these renovations started ASAP!