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Year 31 • issue 11
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FRIDAY • may 28 • 2021
Residents express concerns over proposed Barrhaven truck terminal By Charlie Senack A virtual public consultation was held for Barrhaven residents to ask questions about the proposal to rezone land on the South Merivale Business Park. The changes would allow for a warehouse and truck transport terminal to be built on the site. More than 170 Nepean residents attended the roughly three hour-long meeting which was held on May 13, and had an opportunity to share their comments and concerns which mainly included traffic congestion, noise and pollution. The applicant, who has not yet been identified, wants to amend the zoning at 2 and 20 Leikin Drive and 99 Bill Leathem Drive for the facility, which could see up to 1,000 transport trucks a day pass through the Barrhaven neighbourhood. The warehouse would be
in operation 24 hours a day, according to the proposal, and would include a distribution operation. The land would need to be rezoned to Light Industrial Zone, Subzone 9, in order for the development to go ahead. Councillor Carol Anne Meehan, whose ward the South Merivale Business Park is in, said during the meeting that if the proposal was to go through, infrastructure upgrades would have to be made in order to accommodate the increase in traffic on roads near the site. “The roads around the business park need to be upgraded to adequately accommodate the traffic before the pandemic,” said Meehan. “Adding any use to the business park that will increase traffic using Fallowfield, Woodroffe, Merivale, or Prince of Wales, means we need to see necessary road upgrades that would help mitigate the traffic con-
gestion, pollution, and noise, which would all increase once the park is built up.” Meehan said the business park’s purpose has changed since it was built decades ago due to people’s behaviours changing. Online shopping has become increasingly popular, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic began, meaning more truck depots and warehouses need to open. “We all want to support new jobs and businesses in our community, but now growth must be supported by new infrastructure to support our community and its residents,” she said. Councillor Keith Egli, The proposed warehouse and truck terminal would be located in the South Merivale Busiwho also briefly spoke during ness Park on the eastern edge of Barrhaven. the virtual meeting, said residents of his ward who live in which is already busy during ings Ltd, who owns the land on the site. That changed bewhere the business park sits. tween negotiations with the the Pine Glen neighborhood, rush hour traffic. Jack Stirling, who was He said when the South city and the business parks are concerned about safety for those who walk and bike the former Chief Planner for Merivale Business Park first landowners sometime after to nearby St. Monica Ele- the City of Nepean, was also opened, Nepean’s zoning By- 1998. mentary School. The students part of the consultation, repre- Laws allowed for warehouses terminal have to cross Merivale Road senting Zena-Kinder Hold- and truck terminals to be built continues on page 2
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