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The Downtown Winnipeg Zoning By-Law defines the boundaries of the Downtown planning area, and several sectors within it. The downtown census area is slightly smaller, omitting a three-block extension at the north edge. There is also a significantly larger Downtown community area, used for Community Social Data Strategy for Winnipeg.
Within the Inner City, the Downtown Winnipeg Zoning By-Law defines an area for regulation of downtown development, significantly smaller than the Downtown community area. The Exchange District is a National Historic Site of Canada .
Winnipeg's Business Improvement Zones (BIZ) are business districts established to enhances economic development for businesses in a particular neighbourhood. [12] Each BIZ is governed and administered by a board, and is regulated by related BIZ by-laws passed by City Council. [13]
Other major cities do not use the term duplex in their zoning or land-use bylaws. San Francisco and Vancouver use the term Two-family dwelling. [11] [12] Winnipeg uses the term Dwelling, two-family. [13] The definitions of these terms do not specify the physical relationship between the two dwelling units in the building.
Jack Levit of Lakeview Development Ltd. (St. James) announced in October 1969 that his company would invest CA$20 million in an apartment complex, as soon as Metro's Downtown Development Plan was passed into law. [2] The Delta Hotel, which faces St. Mary's Cathedral, was once the site of St. Mary's School, which closed in 1968 and burned in ...
Metro Winnipeg attempted to introduce a co-ordinated approach planning between its member municipalities, and to that end it created several planning documents. Those documents included the Downtown Winnipeg Plan, the Winnipeg Area Transportation Study, and District Area Plans for the suburban municipalities of metropolitan Winnipeg.
The Winnipeg City Council has established six standing policy committees for the period of 1 November 2020 to 31 October 2021, some having ad-hoc committees of their own: [17] on Infrastructure Renewal and Public Works; on Innovation and Economic Development; on Finance; on Property and Development, Heritage and Downtown Development
Winnipeg's history of towers began with the Union Bank Tower (1904), the National Bank Building (1911), and the Hotel Fort Garry in 1913. Buildings in the city remained relatively short in the city until the late 1960s when the city experienced its first skyscraper boom, with the construction of the Richardson Building, Holiday Towers, and Grain Exchange Tower, all being constructed during ...