Business View Civil and Municipal | May/June 2022

117 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 5 TOWN OF TECUMSEH , ONTAR IO who call this part of Essex County home. More than 100 years after its founding, the Town of Tecumseh is still laser focused on ensuring its residents are satisfied and fulfilled. “We are very much a community where council has an interest in walkable neighbourhoods, treelined streets, the types of things you really come to appreciate,” says Brian Hillman, Town of Tecumseh’s Director of Development Services. “As a council and a community, there is a vested interest in having a beautiful place to live, so we work hard to find the balance of creating investment opportunities but also seeking a very high standard of development. Tecumseh is a vibrant municipality – a very small organization corporately, but we aspire to do very large, good things. Not only does council set a high standard but we, administratively and as a community, set very high standards. We aspire to achieve those and they come with challenges – but it’s an exciting place to not only live, but to work, because of that.” To ensure they are maintaining those high standards, Tecumseh conducts a biannual citizen satisfaction survey. For six years running, the town has reached 98 percent approval. “Citizens express a great deal of support and satisfaction with the service offerings in Tecumseh,” says Marg Misek-Evans, the town’s CAO. “They feel it’s a great place to live. And certainly in our planning and public meetings, people often comment on the warmth and support of the neighbourhoods and the small town feel – even though we are close to a large center.” The Town of Tecumseh is located just east of the City of Windsor, which is just across the Canada-U.S. border from Detroit, Michigan. The location brings with it a unique set of amenities. According to McNamara, “Regionally, we have access to a wide range of amenities. We lean on each other in terms of different amenities that one community might have that the other doesn’t. We co-operatively work well in that Mayor, Gary McNamara