Windsor's chief building official ordered the emergency demolition of another 17 derelict residential properties deemed to be significant safety hazards
After decades of boarded-up homes, demolition orders and frustrated attempts to revive parts of Windsor’s west end neighbourhood, city hall is taking its most aggressive step yet by moving to expropriate 45 properties in Sandwich.
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Windsor council unanimously authorized the expropriation process during a closed-door meeting July 27, targeting houses and vacant properties scattered across Indian Road, Edison Street, Bloomfield Road and several other streets near the Ambassador Bridge.
Property owners, including the Ambassador Bridge company, were formally notified Monday.
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“For decades, residents have been faced with boarded-up homes, significant urban blight and decay,” Mayor Drew Dilkens told reporters on Thursday.
Standing on the front lawn of a boarded up house on Indian Road, he said west Windsor residents have an “overwhelming feeling of being forgotten and considered obsolete in the shadow of infrastructure meant to unit and to sustain economies, neighbourhoods, and families.”
“Council has always been united on every decision on this file in the last 20 years that I’ve been around. I stand here today with the unanimous vote behind us to tell you: no more.”
