THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF WINDSOR POLICY

Service Area:	Office of the City Engineer	Policy No.:
Department:	Engineering	Approval Date:
Division:	Design and Development	Approved By:
		Effective Date:	IMMEDIATE
Subject:	Local Improvement Policy Consolidation	Procedure Ref.:
Review Date:		Pages:	Replaces: CR1215/85, CR292/2003,CR179/2005, CR8/2012,M214-2010, CR1607/89, M39/2014
Prepared By:	Janelle Coombs/Adam Mourad		Date: June 8, 2020

1.   PURPOSE

• 1.1 To present a cost-sharing policy setting forth special assessments for municipal infrastructure such as storm and sanitary sewers, street lighting, sidewalks, pavements, curbs and gutters and private drain connections constructed under the provisions of the Local Improvement Regulation, O. Reg. 586/06.

• 1.2 To address the situation where there are no sanitary or storm sewers in an existing neighbourhood of the City. Some areas of the City are still serviced by septic tanks with no sanitary sewers. Elimination of the remaining septic tanks within the City is considered a high priority to reduce environmental issues and improve water quality in the municipal drainage system and receiving water bodies.

• 1.3 To address streets that may have a sanitary sewer and roadside ditches, but no storm sewer. In order to close the roadside ditches, the ditches would need to be replaced with a storm sewer.

• 1.4To consolidateand replace the following existing Council Resolutionsregarding localimprovements and the correlated cost sharing policies(Appendix A):

  • CR292/2003 - Storm and Sanitary Sewer Policy

  • CR1215/85 - Pavement and Sidewalk Cost-Sharing Policy

  • CR1607/89 - Cost-Sharing for Street Lighting

  • CR179/2005 - Cost-Sharing for Rehabilitation of Deteriorated Roads

  • M214-2010 - Pedestrian Generator Policy

  • CR8/2012 - Local Improvements of Majority Side Lot Properties Policy 

  • CR1406/95 - Ornamental Street Lighting

  • M39-2014 - Road Rehabilitation of Rural Cross section roads not within 2000 feet of a storm outlet