Development "with public benefit"
WindsorOntarioNews.com Oct 31 2025
https://www.windsorontarionews.com/windsor-ontario-news-real-estate.html
A very passive park – so passive it looks like an open lot – on the city’s east side would be partly redeveloped with the rest turned into an enhanced park with amenities, if a developer’s proposal goes through. Kinsmen Norman Road Park on Olive Rd. is “well-maintained” but “underutilized” according to a consultant’s report for the unnamed applicant. A public washroom was even recently removed. The whole lot “functions more as a transitional or passive space rather than an active community hub,” Dillon Consulting stated. The proposal is to have a southern strip of the park subdivided into six lots – three bordering Olive Rd. and three bordering Norman Rd. - with a house on each lot. Money from the sale of the city property would be used to much improve the park. “This strategy allows the city to retain and improve the remaining parkland while modestly increasing the housing supply through compatible infill,” the report said. Improvements would include new trees, benches, bike racks and solar lighting. The plan would balance “development with public benefit.” A public open house last summer saw six people attend and three online. Comments included desires for improved park lighting, waste cans and a community garden which would "be considered." “I like the proposal,” said one person. “I feel we have a great plan here to go forward.” Another said, “I know we will always have people against change; unfortunately, things have to move forward at some point.” The rezoning application goes to the city’s planning committee in November.
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