A proposal for a new truck travel centre in Dallas will be going to a public hearing on June 2.
A numbered company wants to build a gas station, cardlock and restaurant at 7750 Dallas Drive, a vacant lot just off Highway 1.
Director of development services, Marvin Kwiatkowski, was asked about potential impacts to traffic by councillor Dale Bass, with a mobile home park nearby and a median in front of the vacant property.
“My feeling was, that restriction and median was in place to restrict access to that site, just to that far location. Which I can see makes sense, given you want accesses removed as far away as you can from a major intersection. There will be a traffic impact assessment done on this just given the volume of traffic.”
The proposal is coming to council because there’s a restricted covenant at the property that councillors are being asked to amend. The covenant says no gas stations, restaurants or different kinds of shops can be built there, and the property owner is asking to allow a gas station and restaurant to be built there.
That covenant has been in place at that property for nearly 20 years.
“We’re not sure the exact reasons why that restrictive covenant was put in place,” Kwiatkowski told Kamloops councillors. “Part of it could’ve been a non-competition type of a clause or covenant. You’ll often see that with say, a fast food chain. If they go onto a property that is being developed, they will say ‘no other coffee shops,’ etc., on that property. That may have been the case, we’re not exactly sure.”
He went on to say that a restaurant or a gas station would be suitable for that site, as opposed to a shop with machinery, with a large mobile home park nearby.
“If we were to look at the machine shops, welding shops and autobody, I’ve lived close, in the past, to those type of uses. And you can hear them clanging. Not only in the day but sometimes in the night, and it’s fairly loud. We see the uses of a cardlock, restaurant and fuel bar being more suitable for the subject site.”
The public hearing will be done online, but final details are still being arranged, for how the public will able to watch and listen and ask questions.
