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The City of Windsor is pushing back on a recent court defeat that if left unchallenged could cost taxpayers millions.
One month ago, the Windsor-based Paciorka family won a two-decade battle over what the city should have paid for hundreds of building lots it expropriated to help create the Spring Garden natural area. The ruling left the city on the hook for about $6.2 million less what it originally paid, but Mayor Drew Dilkens has said the ripple effect of losing this case could cost “upwards of $20 million” because the land evaluation approved for the Paciorkas could apply to hundreds of other lots appropriated around the same time to create the natural area.