CTV NEWS | OTTAWA, By Josh Pringle

Taggart Realty Management has received the green light to build two high-rise towers across the street from the Central Experimental Farm.

Council voted 18 to 7 to approve plans to build 16- and 27-storey high-rise towers on Carling Avenue, just west of the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus. It would add 410 residential units to Ottawa's market once the towers are completed.

The proposal has faced opposition from community groups over the height of the buildings(opens in a new tab) and from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, which said that it was worried the shadows cast by the buildings could affect research at the Central Experimental Farm on the opposite side of Carling Avenue.

City staff said the proposed development achieves the intensification objectives identified for areas near planned LRT stations and it is consistent with the Official Plan and High-rise Design Guidelines.

Councillors Jessica Bradley, Ariel Troster, Shawn Menard, Sean Devine, Riley Brockington, Clarke Kelly and Theresa Kavanagh voted against the proposal.

Councillor Jeff Leiper voted in favour of the project in his ward.

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