Got $17M to spare? These lands next to Windsor's national urban park are for sale
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It’s a $17 million chance to grow Windsor’s national urban park.
Land around the former Windsor Raceway is up for sale, and some people want to see it included in the footprint of the park.
The lands were listed Friday, and include four parcels totalling about 17.4 hectares. They surround the raceway, but don’t include the track itself, and closely abut the proposed Ojibway National Urban Park.
Some residents in the area say they’d rather see the land added to the park instead of big box store development.
“There's a couple of endangered species in there and some threatened species and a whole lot of other important nature that we would want to see preserved,” said James Sheridan, who lives nearby.
“I’d ideally see it somehow be joined into the urban National Park.”
“I'd rather just see it go Ojibway, continue on and just go back to its natural state with the trees and bush and the animals running around,” said Gord Hillman, who also lives in the area.
The park has been in the works for years and was expected to open this fall.
In an update on Oct. 7, Parks Canada said partners continued to work towards a formal designation for the park in fall 2025.
Former MP Brian Masse had brought a private member’s bill to create the park during his time in office.
That bill passed the third and final reading in the House of Commons and headed to the Senate before Parliament was prorogued for the election that would ultimately unseat him.
Regarding the lands for sale, Masse says there are millions of dollars in federal funds that could be used to pay for it, and bring it into the park’s footprint.
“There's over $110 million already available and the federal government bank account right now for that,” Masse said.
“There's an additional $34 million that's been allocated for the Ojibway project alone.”
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