Council Report: C 162/2020

Subject: Open Streets 2020

Reference:

Date to Council: August 24, 2020
Author: Michelle Staadegaard
Coordinator City Events Initiatives
Tel: 519-816-0711
Email: mstaadegaard@citywindsor.ca
Recreation and Culture
Report Date: 8/12/2020
Clerk’s File #: SPL/12373

To : Mayor and Members of City Council

Recommendation:

THAT Administration’s recommendation to cancel Open Streets Windsor 2020 scheduled on Sunday, September 20, 2020 due to ongoing restrictions in relation to COVID-19 BE APPROVED and further;

THAT Administration BE DIRECTED to continue with planning two Open Street Windsor Events in 2021, as approved in the 2020 budget.

Executive Summary:

Background:

Open Streets are unique events that have been held in over 100 cities in North America and involve the temporary closure of roadways to vehicular traffic, allowing people to use them for a host of healthy and fun participatory activations and physical activities like walking, cycling, yoga, dancing and fitness.

The City of Windsor has annually hosted Open Streets Windsor every September since 2016 to an audience of up to 10,000 participants. Open Streets Windsor covers an approximately eight-kilometre span from Sandwich in to the west to Ford City in the East. Throughout the route, Business Improvement Associations (BIA), Community Organizations and Not-For Profit Organizations host over 200 activations through the eight-kilometre span within eight hubs – participatory activations include exercise and