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Article content Kusmierczyk said he believes there are things to be learned from the establishment of Rouge National Urban Park in Toronto — Canada’s first and only national urban park so far. “But we’re also very much talking about a made-in-Windsor framework for what this could look like,” Kusmierczyk said. No timeline has been set at this point, but Kusmierczyk said there is “a sense of excitement and wanting to proceed” on the project. A map showing the lands that comprise the Ojibway Prairie Complex, from the Detroit River and Ojibway Shores in the west to the Spring Garden Natural Area abutting the Herb Grey Parkway to the east. Windsor Star
Article content The City of Windsor is pushing back on a recent court defeat that — if left unchallenged — could cost taxpayers millions. One month ago, the Windsor-based Paciorka family won a two-decade battle over what the city should have paid for hundreds of building lots it expropriated to help create the Spring Garden natural area. The ruling left the city on the hook for about $6.2 million less what it originally paid, but Mayor Drew Dilkens has said the ripple effect of losing this case could cost “upwards of $20 million” because the land evaluation approved for the Paciorkas could apply to hundreds of other lots appropriated around the same time to create the natural area.
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