Minto council is set to approve the site plan for a new gas bar at the entrance to the industrial park here.
The development, owned by a numbered company, will include a 1,990 square foot building and a four-island gas bar.
The facility will use a shared entrance with a new Tim Hortons restaurant to be developed at the site.
A staff report notes entrances and parking areas will be bordered with concrete curbs and paved, including curbing between Wellington Road 123 access and Minto Road “to prevent truck parking on the roadway as required of Tim Hortons.”
The report recommends signs prohibiting parking and strict enforcement.
However councillor Rick Hembly said he isn’t worried about parking issues at the site.
“Tim Hortons has been around for 50 years now and they’ve been building beside a lot of gas stations … I think they’ve probably got a pretty good plan,” said Hembly.
CAO Bill White noted to the gas station and Tim Horton’s developers have been working with a common consultant and there will be a traffic study to examine traffic flow on the entire site as part of the Wellington County approval process.
