This requires neighbors to back out of their driveway onto Lauzon Road, stop the car, put it into gear and proceed safely, as we all know this takes time. Approaching cars from both ways are already at speeds of 50 km or more making it very hard to just get out of our driveways safely, we have to wait, find or time an open gap in traffic to back out and move on, it’s an ongoing problem and not safe.

When you add 150 cars exiting an apartment complex within meters of other single family dwelling residents, and note: these cars are exiting the apartment complex parking lot in a forward direction accelerating quickly to merge with traffic to take advantage and fill any gaps in traffic, reduces opportunities for current residents to even back out of their own driveway, we all know that backing out and changing gears in our cars takes more time than just accelerating with traffic with oncoming traffic already at posted speeds or higher. Current residents will struggle to get out of their driveways.

Windsor Police have frequent radar speed traps on Lauzon Road, and oddly enough, the Police Radar unit sits at 3129 Lauzon Rd, and stays busy during the time they have are using radar. The Windsor Police recognize 3129 Lauzon as a hot spot for traffic citations, which emphasizes that Lauzon Road already has lots of traffic and excessive speeding already on Lauzon Road.

Traffic is already busy on Lauzon Road and getting busier all the time as the road is used for a bypass/shortcut to Canadian tire, Walmart, McDonalds, Burger King, Tecumseh Mall, WCFU Center, the new Cannabis Store just put up and alternative back ways leading into Riverside and Forest Glade.

Motorists taking Lauzon Road as a bypass or a shortcut, seem to get confused with higher speeds on Lauzon Parkway and have a habit of speeding while taking this Lauzon Road shortcut, ignoring the fact they are driving 50 km/hr residential street with bike riders, sidewalks, families and children walking.

This is a current problem now we face with just the current traffic, increasing the volume of cars exiting an apartment complex in a forward accelerating direction makes Lauzon Road more unsafe than it is now.

Sewers

We personally had $50,000 in water damage to our basement in 2016. With an addition of an apartment complex, the chance of more basement flooding/ sewer backups increases. In the event of a heavy rain, the runoff from this paved parking lot at the apartment complex could create the same overwhelming scenario we experienced in 2016 with less volumes of rain being required since the water will be retained by the parking lots and dumped into the sewer.

The rain needs to be absorbed into the ground naturally, allowing grass and terrain take its natural course as it does today. Adding apartment complex will overload the sewer, adding single family houses with lawns will manage the water.

It will just be a matter of time to realize how much sewage capacity this existing sewer can handle with adding 96 units from an apartment complex, and it will be realized when it’s too late and we experience damage. Who will be paying for that?

The sewer we were told flows to the Little River plant, which directs the water past all the residential homes on Lauzon Road. The apartment complex would be the farthest away, so it would be the last to