After knocking on thousands of doors and leveraging over a decade of expertise as a policy researcher and advocate I have crafted the following platform. If you have questions please reach out to campaign@frazierfathers.ca or drop me a message on social media.
Proven. Prepared. Ready to Lead.
The next Ward 2 Councillor will step into a “Strong Mayor” budget while the rest of council has been advocating all year, and Ward 2 will just be getting started. I know the budget, I’ve listened to the priorities of my West Windsor neighbours, and I’m prepared to advocate for Ward 2 from day 1.
I’ve spent almost 15 years living in West Windsor – I care deeply about the community. I went to university and rented an apartment, I own my home and run my business here.
During my near 7 years at United Way overseeing community research and engagement along with $2 million in funding, I led strategies to uplift our neighbourhood and worked with West Windsor organizations like Sandwich Teen Action Group (STAG), Life After Fifty, Unemployed Help Centre (UHC) and Big Brothers Big Sisters. I helped secure millions of dollars in community benefits when I led the Gordie Howe Bridge Community Benefit Consultation in 2017.
As a non-profit and affordable housing consultant, I work with municipalities to create incentives for new affordable housing, and I’ve led strategic planning for community-focused organizations like The Welcome Centre Shelter for Women and Families and Windsor Family Homes and Community Partnerships. My commitment to community building and civic engagement goes beyond my professional life – I’ve written about our City’s last 7 budgets on my blog (here is the 2025 post) to drive community conversations. I sit on the City of Windsor Development Charge Taskforce with council members, administrators and developers to explore ways to find a balance between affordable housing and funding critical infrastructure.
No other candidate knows the issues, processes, data or budget better than I do.
At the doors of my Ward 2 neighbours, one thing has stood out to me most – doing the little things well for our community will deliver meaningful impact for the day-to-day lives of residents. That’s why I’ll be focused on what our Ward 2 residents have told me matter most to them.
- Traffic Calming and Lowering Speed
- Converting 2-way stops into 4 way stops near schools, parks and other neighbourhood intersections.
- Speed bumps, speed humps, bump outs, and other traffic calming that goes beyond signs that are too often ignored.
- Implement Vision Zero.
- Protecting our Parks
- Strongly advocate in the 2026 Park Master Plan update for additional West-Windsor park investment. Prevent divestment from neighbourhood parks.
- Strategically Closing Unpaved Alleyways
- In many cases in West Windsor, alleyways need to be closed. As too many rental properties now back onto alleyways, they are not being maintained. This leaves homeowners dealing with overgrown alleyways, rodents and issues that won’t be solved by absentee landlords.
- The City should divest from these alleys, provide the land at cost to the property owners and recover the cost through increment tax income.
- Rodent Abatement
- Skunks, rats, possums are an issue across West Windsor. Often these critters take advantage of poorly maintained rental properties and boarded up homes for habitat.
- A ward wide approach to tackling these rodents are needed rather than a one or two property owners.
- Improve Safety
- Advocate for additional police patrols in West Windsor to mitigate the year over year rise in property crime.
- Enhance Property and Parking Enforcement
- Advocate for proactive by-law enforcement to ensure neighbours aren’t putting up with eyesores.
- Strengthen parking enforcement around the university and near HDGH to prevent residential street saturation by parked commuter vehicles or students.
- Improve Transit Frequency and Efficiency
- Advocate to improve transit connectivity to local shopping areas (Tecumseh and Huron Church).
- Accessibility and Communication
- Launch a West Windsor newsletter.
On the Horizon
Before the next municipal election at least three major decisions that will potentially impact Ward 2 will likely occur.
Residential Rental License Program
It is expected that before the end of the year, the City will be deciding whether to continue, modify or end the Residential Rental License Program. Ward 2 has one of the highest absentee landlord rates in the city – I will work to ensure the continuation and improvement of this program that empowers the City and our residents to hold landlords accountable and keep tenants safe. The pilot wasn’t prefect we need to refine it and make it better, good landlords should be rewarded while those who take advantage of renters and the neighbourhoods for profit should be held accountable.
Location of the H4 and the Mission
After the failure to situate the H4 on Wellington, right on the border of Ward 2, Council asked consultants to assess sites across the City. These should not be moved to West Windsor. Ward 2 is already home to some of the highest rates of poverty and social housing in the City, adding this additional layer of community challenges will stunt the positive momentum that West Windsor has.
The whole plan and location needs to be revisited. Rather than concentrating a mega-shelter in one location we should be exploring smaller more neighbourhood friendly facilities and wraparound supports meeting people where they are. These projects should include neighbourhood impact assessments and community benefits for existing residents to offset the unintended impacts of these facilities on the surrounding neighbourhood.
Community Benefits from the Ambassador Bridge
The Ambassador Bridge is building a truck plaza next to the bridge, and a land swap with the City is coming. After years of secret negotiations, we saw what best practice looks like with the Gordie Howe Bridge Community Benefit Agreement. The question is what is going to happen to Forster and the boarded up homes. West Windsor deserves a Community Benefit Agreement from the Ambassador Bridge and City to clearly articulate what will happen. The City of Detroit signed a Community Benefit Agreement with the Ambassador Bridge, and the Hubbard Richard Residents Association why not in Sandwich Town?
Onward and Upward
Re-Imagining Huron Church Road
With the Gordie Howe Bridge about to open soon this will divert significant truck traffic away from the Ambassador Bridge, a first step in re-imagining the corridor is a traffic study after the Gordie Howe enters full operation. This can be the start of re-imagining this corridor as a more pedestrian and community friendly space.
Advocating For Future Phases of University Ave Reconstruction
The first phase of University Ave is under construction but no future works are currently planned between now and 2035 (See pdf page 370) other than some early engineering. Leaving this project half finished would leave this stretch a road as a street to nowhere.
Fixing Wyandotte Street’s Broken Tooth
The amazing investment in Addie Knox is underway, but just across the street, the old Benson school sits abandon on a major thoroughfare. The revitalization of Wyandotte street stops at Campbell, we need to start that process again. We need to take action on Benson and enhance the Community Improvement Plan targeting this area to leverage the great investment at Addie Knox to attract investment and fix this broken tooth.
Housing Affordability
I wrote a report on this topic earlier this year. We need to build more housing that is both attainable and affordable across the City of Windsor. Housing affordability is out of reach for too many. Unfortunately the market won’t get us there so we need to explore alternative solutions like Land Trusts, reviving Co-op housing, and the speed up construction processes and times.