The “2024 Complete Communities Land Monitoring Report” included a surprise for rural Creek Bend residents in SE Winnipeg. The new addition of the distinct Site 33, the “Precinct K South Estate Residential” site, gave us the first indication of a newly numbered greenfield supply site adjacent to Site 32, Precinct K South. The new site includes the Seine River peninsula that is the historic Creek Bend Road community. (Until the creation of Unicity in the 1970s the gravel street was called Crescent Road.)
Most of the current occupants of undeveloped South Royalwood live in the Creek Bend Estate community. There are currently 9 remaining houses within the community. The City anticipates that an extra 40 residential lots could be created in the area when full City services are made available.
A recent flood map created by the City for Qualico is quite useful at this time. I added the blue border to show the assumed boundaries of Creek Bend Estate area. The Qualico lands currently being rezoned are shown within a pink border. Perhaps surprising to some, Qualico owns only a portion of the Estate area. Moreover, much of their land in the area is within or bordering the Seine River valley floodplain and coulees. While Save Our Seine must be glad that the sensitive lands adjacent to the river will be future City parkland, Qualico actually has limited land in the Creek Bend Estate area to create buildable lots. Qualico has already indicated that they may simply create blocks of land in their DASZ application, not individually plotted lots.
Creek Bend Estate’s new R1-E lots will be approximately one-quarter acre in size. While developments like Ladco’s Royalwood to the north also have 10,000 square foot lots, those high-end lots are usually found beside storm water retention ponds with walkout basements. Most of the future Creek Bend estate lots will be plotted near the Seine River and its forest, but not on the banks of the Seine River itself.
Current Creek Bend residents own lands that reach to the centre of the Seine River itself (summer level). As with John Bruce East residents in Royalwood to the north, public walking trails will not be built in their backyards.
The precinct plan created for the area provides only the roughest of outlines of future riverside trails. Exact details of where the future Seine River Active Transportation pathway will be built will be determined at the DASZ stage. This is the stage that Qualico finds itself in Spring 2026.
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