Potential housing at Windsor's Roseland Golf and Curling Club will be discussed Thursday night.
The City of Windsor has invited the public to provide input on a proposal introduced last week to add housing to four sites around the city.
The Roseland proposal is up first. If it goes through, it will include demolishing the current clubhouse and offering the land to a developer for a condominium and a new clubhouse.
"We want a really high-end development at Roseland. Something that will be incredible with underground parking and some great views of the golf course. I think it's a place where many in Windsor would desire to live," said Mayor Drew Dilkens on Friday.
Windsor City Council had agreed in August 2023 to remove the curling sheets from the city-owned Roseland clubhouse, and in December, announced that curling will move to the Capri Pizzeria Recreation Complex for the 2024-25 curling season.
That hasn't stopped local curlers from expressing their displeasure at the latest developments. A group called the Committee for the Future of Curling in Windsor-Essex has begun a petition drive, which has collected over 2,500 signatures.
"It comes as a surprise that the land will now be used as future housing development," read a media release issued by the committee. "Last year, in March of 2023, the committee formally launched a grassroots public campaign to save the facility and protect the sport of curling in the Windsor-Essex region. There is growing concern, as well as disappointment amongst the group, around the extent of knowledge the City and councillors had available to them. The greatest of concerns is around what information may have been withheld from the public in the early stages of our campaign."
WindsorNewsToday.ca had reached out to the committee for additional information but had not yet received a response.
The public meeting is at Roseland on Thursday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
*with files from Maureen Revait