The land at 300 Coventry Road is one of 20 sites being considered by the city's Finance and Economic Development Committee.

The City of Ottawa may be considering getting rid of RCGT Park in order to create space for a new affordable housing development sometime in the next decade.

The land at 300 Coventry Road is one of 20 properties near transit stations included in a report expected to be delivered to the Finance and Economic Development Committee on Tuesday, April 2.

Speaking with 1310 NEWS, the mayor's office explained, with light rail coming online, the RCGT location could be a good place for more residential properties.

Mathieu Gravel, a director in the mayor's office added that the baseball stadium is covered by a lease for the next six years, "unless something changes."



Former city councillor Bob Monette was a vocal supporter of bringing baseball back to Ottawa, which happened when the Can-Am league brought the Ottawa Champions to town in 2015.

When asked if he could imagine Ottawa without a baseball stadium, Monette wasn't happy.

"There's no way I would ever support tearing down the stadium, I've been quite vocal on that," he explained. "Whatever they do there, my view, it must incorporate the baseball stadium in the future."

Although, Monette admitted that attendance numbers haven't been great over the last year.

"There hasn't been sellouts obviously, but there's been around two to three thousand very loyal fans that come out to the baseball stadium."

But, he notes there's more to keeping the stadium and team than just baseball, as there are economic and community benefits to having the Champions in Ottawa.

"I still believe that this can be very successful, so let's keep working at it and let's keep supporting it," Monette said.

The city's liaison on housing, councillor Catherine McKenney told 1310 NEWS that seeing the stadium property on the list was a little odd.

"Well I was excited about the others -- that one jumped out at me, as an interesting choice for staff to bring to us," McKenney said. "Lots of questions I'm sure we'll have on a few of them."

The city of Ottawa owns the land at 300 Coventry Road and in 2018 it cost them $825,400 to maintain RCGT Park.