YORKTON - A downtown Yorkton business received a finalized Zoning Bylaw amendment from Council opening the door to a possible expansion.
TA Foods Ltd., a local agricultural food ingredient processing and packaging company, purchased the property at 72 Broadway Street West in 2016 after the Western Grocers Warehouse ceased operations. Since that time, they have continued to use the building as a warehouse facility to support their main production centre located on Myrtle Avenue.
The property is currently zoned C-1 City Centre Commercial and Warehouse Facilities are Discretionary Uses in this district.
As the TA Foods warehouse use was not a change to the original use, a new Development Permit was not required in 2016 and following the purchase for warehouse use, office space was also incorporated into the building.
However now the owners are contemplating a building addition to provide more warehouse space and they are also considering the addition of “in-house product packaging” at the location.
Under the current Zoning Bylaw, an addition to add warehouse space can be considered by Council as a Discretionary Use, however, “packaging of products” is classified as a light industrial use in the Zoning Bylaw and is currently not permitted in the C-1 district, noted the report.
As such, TA Foods had submitted an application to rezone the property to allow for consideration of future light industrial uses.
Being that the location is within the C-1 City Centre Commercial zoning district, Administration is recommending consideration of rezoning to CMI-1 Commercial-Industrial Transitional which lists Light Industrial Uses as Discretionary Uses requiring Council approval,
Yorkton Council gave second and third reading to the approval of the discretionary use at the regular meeting of Council Monday.
