City of Windsor Airport Lands

3200 Cabana Road East, 0 Cabana Road East, and 0 Jefferson Boulevard (Airport Employment Lands)

Applicant: City of Windsor
Agent: Dillon Consulting (Amy Farkas)
File No: OPA 177 (OPA/7118) & Z-0027/23 (ZNG/7117)

Airport Employment Lands (Phase 2) Public Open House

The City of Windsor is moving forward with the next phase of the Airport Employment Land Plan (AELP) under the City’s “Windsor Works” Economic Development Strategy. The AELP is intended to create shovel-ready sites for business investment, providing Windsor with a significant advantage over other communities in landing motivated companies.

For companies wanting to inquire about access to the existing or future employment lands in Windsor, please contact the City’s Economic Development team at ecdev@citywindsor.ca by email. 

Public Consultation on Proposed Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments

 A Public Open House will be held on September 9, 2025, as part of the proposed Official Plan and Zoning By-law amendments to permit employment uses on an additional 93 hectares of land located within the vicinity of the Windsor International Airport. The Official Plan amendment would consolidate the existing designations of “Airport,” “Industrial,” “Open Space,” and “Future Employment Area” under the “Industrial” designation, and the Zoning By-law amendment would change the zoning from “Institutional” (I) to “Manufacturing District 2.2” (MD2.2). This meeting will form part of the ongoing planning process in advance of the statutory public meeting required under the Planning Act.

Written comments on the proposal will be accepted until September 26, 2025.

Phase 1

The City of Windsor has initiated amendments to the Official Plan and zoning by-laws 85-18 and 8600 to permit employment uses on 187.74 hectares of land located within the vicinity of the Windsor International Airport. The application requests a change to Official Plan Schedule D: Land Use from ‘Future Employment Area,’ ‘Airport,’ and ‘Open Space’ to ‘Industrial’ and ‘Business Park.’

The application also requests removal of the subject lands from Zoning By-law 85-18, which are currently zoned Institutional (I), and the amendment of Zoning By-law 8600 to apply a Manufacturing District 2.2 (MD2.2) and Manufacturing District 1.4 (MD1.4) to Phase 1 and H-Manufacturing District 2.2 (HMD2.2) to Phase 2. (See Conceptual Development Plan.)

The requested amendments would permit a wide range of employment uses (e.g. industrial, warehouse, office, and service commercial). The proposed amendments would also establish a special policy area to address development constraints and requirements related to airport operations (e.g. building and structure height limits, stormwater management requirements for dry ponds, required consultation with Nav Canada, etc.).

The conceptual development plan is subject to change. The proposed development is subject to site plan control.

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For general information, call 311. For detailed inquiries, contact:

Greg Atkinson, MCIP, RPP
Manager of Development Planning/Deputy City Planner
Planning & Building Services Department
Planning Division
2nd Floor, 350 City Hall Square West
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, N9A 6S1
Phone: 519-255-6543 ext. 6582