By Monica Duguid, Ottawa Citizen Letter to the Editor, September 13, 2014
Re: LeBreton Flats: Imagining what Ottawa’s prime real estate could look like,
Sept. 12. Is it really true? After all the fuming and hubbub over so many years
about what to do with LeBreton Flats, is the National Capital Commission
actually considering transforming the ugly duckling into a swan? What a novel
idea. The plan as designed by artist Andrew King, although only a possibility,
offers a plethora of people pleasing ideas. When Lansdowne Park was under
renovation, the question of what to do with the historically sensitive
Horticultural building was uppermost. At that time I submitted a suggestion to
the Citizen’s Letters to the Editor that it should be considered as a butterfly
compound and botanical gardens, which have proven so environmentally friendly
and popular in the United States. The Desert Botanical Gardens in suburban
Phoenix Arizona as well as the Butterfly House in Niagara Falls were well
attended during our visit and the children as well as adults were taken by the
beauty of the butterflies and their botanical surroundings. via
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