February 2023 Update

Welcome to the first of a series of ongoing updates on the Canada Lands portion of Naawi-Oodena. Winter 2022/23 has been a busy one at Naawi-Oodena, with several significant milestones.

On December 19, 2022 it was announced that the 102 acres of the Naawi-Oodena site belonging to our Treaty One partners was officially converted to reserve and repatriated to the Joint Reserve land base of the seven Treaty One First Nations. The lands are now the largest First Nation-led Urban Economic Zone in Manitoba and the only Urban Reserve to be held collectively by the Treaty One Nations. We congratulate our Treaty One partners on this significant and historic event. Additional information can be found at the Treaty One website. 

Canada Lands and our Treaty One partners have commenced development of community design guidelines for Naawi-Oodena. Based on Indigenous Design Principles, the design guidelines will guide the ‘look and feel’ of the development in terms of urban design and placemaking at the building, site, public realm, and open space levels. 

Concurrent with the start of the community design guidelines, Canada Lands Company has submitted to the City for approval a draft Secondary Plan for its portion of the Naawi-Oodena site.  The Secondary Plan, which applies only to the CLC lands, aims to realize the vision for Naawi-Oodena Master Plan by establishing a comprehensive land use and development framework to guide its implementation. Naawi-Oodena is designated as a Major Redevelopment Site under the City of Winnipeg’s OurWinnipeg and the Complete Communities Direction Strategy, and adoption of a Secondary Plan is required before any rezoning or development activities can occur. 

Stay tuned for more updates on public engagement opportunities, the draft Secondary Plan, and the overall Naawi-Oodena project.