Greber Plan

The report was ordered by William Lyon Mackenzie King at the end of the Second World War and was used as the model for the development of the National Capital Region for more than 50 years.

[2] In February 2019, Ottawa mayor Jim Watson began the process to develop a modern version of the Gréber Plan.

[9] During World War II, most of the downtown Ottawa's green spaces was filled with "temporary" wooden office buildings hastily constructed to house the Capital’s burgeoning civil service.

The city’s natural beauty was also threatened with unplanned urban sprawl, while its waterways were fouled by the detritus of the area’s extensive wood-products industry and the untreated sewage of its growing population.

[5] At the time, the Government of Canada was entertaining the idea of creating a federal district like Washington, D.C.[1] In 1936, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King invited Jacques Gréber, a French town planner, to act as an advisor for planning in Ottawa.