Central Riverfront Implementation Plan

Windsor's Central Riverfront Implementation Plan (CRIP), adopted by Windsor City Council on September 5, 2000 is the overall conceptual plan for the riverfront for the next 25 years. The plan ensures that residents' long-held dream of creating a continuous riverfront open space network will be upheld for future generations.

On October 9, 2002, the CRIP was identified as a Special Policy Area in Volume II of the City's Official Plan called Central Riverfront Park Lands (Section 1.13).

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Public Input 2013

Final Report

• Public Consultation Summary & Recommendations (June 2014, Landmark Engineers Inc.) - 80MB, PDF. If you have trouble opening the document, please try "save as" to open the file from your computer.

Materials presented at open houses along with this year's annual ward meetings are available here for your review.

Information Boards

• Introduction: What is CRIP?
• Progress to Date: The 9 Segments
• Items to Consider
• Slide Show: Central Riverfront Implementation Plan (Note: Documents best viewed in Adobe version 10/X or higher, or use "save as" to download the file.)

When Council approved the CRIP in September 2000, it also requested that a Central Riverfront Technical Advisory Committee (CRTAC) be created. The primary role of CRTAC will be to review the technical merit of proposed municipal and private undertakings within the Central Riverfront Park Lands, and provide recommendations to Administration and City Council, which identify how the undertakings conform to the principles, objectives, and design standards cited in the CRIP and the Central Riverfront Park Lands Policies in the Official Plan.

The CRIP provides design guidelines for nine individual segments spanning from McKee Park linking the Olde Sandwich Towne area in the west to the Hiram Walker Distillery District in the east. Beacons will be located throughout the Riverfront Park Lands as the primary orientation system and identity feature. The Plan also serves to link neighbourhoods south of Riverside through the development of green linkages such as Civic Esplanade, Vision Corridor and other parks.

In 2001, an article appeared in the Ontario Planning Journal that gave a brief summary of the key elements of the CRIP.

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