Dear officiers/City of Windsor

Subject: 881 Drouillard Road-Parking Encroachment-Ward 5

Firstly, the subject property in the application is located in abutting to the building of 2744 Edna Street, and the municipal road in adjunction to it named Edna Street. Why it has been renamed as 881 Drouillard Road? The Applicant has no idea about it. The said building has been used as applicant’s operating office and warehouse for a decade and the subject property has played a very important role in this regard.

1. There are no enough parking spaces for the applicant over the business operation .There are over 50 people working on this building, and there are only limited spaces for parking. In order to resolve the parking issue, the applicant already acquired the property across the street last year, namely 909 Maisonvill to park more cars. By cutting this property as parking place, it is going to put more burden to the applicant's current parking difficulties.

2. The "881 Drouillard Road" along the building of 2744 Edna street, there is no place over 1.5 m for pedestrians except the one in the subject. There is grass lawn and other objects along the side. There are three dock entries to the building of 2744 Edna and entry gate of one storage place connected to the building of 2744 Edna are set facing to "881 Drouillard Road", therefore, making no pedestrians will be safe to select to walk through this side of sidewalk instead of the other side of the sidewalk of the street. The only pedestrians would use the remaining space for walking, mostly would be the owners of the car parking there, or the applicant's employees.

3. According the City’s zoning By-Law 8600 -Section 24 parking, loading and Stacking Provisions- 24.20.10.1 Size of a Parking Space requires; “where one side of the parking space is flanked by a wall or fence, each parking space shall have a minimum length of 5.5 meters and a minimum width of 3.5 meters”. The current width is 5 meters and there is enough length, therefore, it is sufficient to meet the City above zoning requirement. With parking of a normal sedan and even a pick up truck, there will be still more than 1.5 meter left for the pedestrians.

Based on the inaccurate data that the city obtained in this report, we request the City to send out an inspector to do the measurement on the site.

4. Once an encroachment is created on the said property, the applicant totally understand that anyone could use this parking encroachment. The purpose of the application is to secure the parking spaces of the operation of the business, and not to claim any previlage of the utilizing of the space.

5. Overall, we do think our request for minor consent is consistent with the “Healthy, livable and safe communities” policy promoting cost-effective development to minimize land consumption and servicing costs.

Ran Huang

In-house counsel for Champion Products Corp.