It was a sometimes heated public meeting looking at the future of Lansdowne Park as hundreds of people jammed Salon A of the Ottawa Civic Centre Monday night to view a proposal to redevelop the historic park.

"This is entirely a fake! This is no conversation whatsoever," charged one angry resident, who used a megaphone to express his views.

"It's an injustice that this is all that the citizens of Ottawa are presented with . . . we're here tonight to hear a snow-job about how good this proposal is," added resident Marjorie George.

"To have confidence in this, is to be really stupid," said another.

Many of those in attendance were Glebe residents who oppose the Lansdowne Live plan to revitalize the park.

The $250-million proposal includes a refurbished football stadium and arena, retail and green space, a hotel and residential development.

"There's people that obviously have enormous emotion; they're extremely anti-Lansdowne, as far as Lansdowne Live goes," said Jeff Hunt, one of the partners working on the project.

"They don't want to see any type of sports development here and that's obvious and that's their right. They have a right to have that type of opinion, just like I think everyone else has a right to want those types of infrastructures in the community and to want pro sports in the community."

But not everyone spoke out against the project: "It's the nation's capital. CFL is not complete without a team in Ottawa, as simple as that," said resident Steve O'Brien.

The next public meeting on the Lansdowne Live plan is set for Tuesday night in Kanata at the Ron Maslin Playhouse from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Those who can't attend the public meetings can make their opinions known electronically. A phone survey will also poll the opinions of 1,000 residents.

"All of that will be rolled up into one report that will say to council, 'This is what we think the public has to tell you about this partnership proposal in advance of you making a decision,'" said city manager Kent Kirkpatrick.

City council will be briefed on the feedback in November.

With a report from CTV Ottawa's Kristy Kirkup