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The Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help uncover information that led to the city’s decision to eliminate retail space in the Pelissier Street Parking Garage.

The DWBIA announced Wednesday it is seeking the public’s financial help to raise roughly $14,000 the city requested to cover costs of a Freedom of Information request.

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The business improvement association filed the FOI and is seeking emails, reports and other relevant paperwork that led to council’s decision.

Coming up with the money is not possible for the cash-strapped BIA, so the online fundraising effort has been launched to cover costs, said Larry Horwitz, the BIA’s chairman.

He described removing retail space from the parking a garage as a step backwards in urban planning when many other municipalities are moving in the opposite direction of eliminating parking to add more commercial space.