A positive response from the community.
That's how Windsor's Manager of Parks Development is describing the feedback received from an open house dealing with development plans for the Riverfront Festival Plaza.
Mike Clement says residents that attended the open house are on board with the city transforming the plaza from a so-called parking lot to more green space.
"Some of the people that have come through and have seen it before have said that they like the ideas, they like the fact that it's not going to be a heat island anymore and it will be open for use for other things," says Clement.
Concept plans for Riverfront Festival Plaza (Photo by AM800's Gord Bacon)
He says along with the greening, plans also include sloped stepped landscaping down into the plaza from Riverside Drive.
Clement says a project update will go to city council in the next month or two.
"What we have to work with is about five million and that's what we've done to council before with," says Clement. "So the next step, we're working on some of the details of what's down there right now, how we're going to build it, the nuts and bolts of it. So we're doing that and from that will come fine tune cost estimate."
- with files from AM800's Gord Bacon
Concept plans for Riverfront Festival Plaza (Photo by AM800's Gord Bacon)