These longtime south Windsor residents say they'll move if proposed development goes ahead
CBC
A pair of longtime residents of a south Windsor neighbourhood said they're looking at leaving their homes of around 40 years, if a multi-unit residential plan goes ahead.
Two properties at Casgrain Drive and Cabana Road are the site of a proposed mixed-use development that would include 12 units and a commercial space.
At a Thursday night Zoom public information information meeting, billed as an informal gathering for residents, the owner of the properties, Mamum Chowdury, outlined his ideas for the project.
According to a leaflet distributed to neighbours, and provided to CBC News by the planner on the project, it includes a commercial development on the first floor, and as many as 12 units on the second and third floors. A parking lot with 45 spaces would also be located next to the properties.
"I feel sick," said Chiara Tesolim, who lives next door to one of the two lots.
She said her family built their home on the lot in the early 1980s.
Now, she said she has cancer — and is worried about the impact of the stress on her health.
"This is gonna kill me. I'm not kidding. A lot of stress."
"I don't sleep in the night time because I think, what am I gonna do, you know [at] my age, where am I going to go, what am I going do, right? And then, you know, the value is going to go down a lot. It's just horrible."
The developer declined to comment to CBC News through a planner on the project.
Gloria Hidi lives across the street from the proposed development.
She said there was no need to build "a neighbourhood within a neighbourhood."
"It's just disgraceful and shocking really that they would take a neighborhood like this and feel there's a need for an apartment building," she said.
"They're thinking like Torontonians."