Owners of an empty industrial property in Campbell Creek are going back to council with plans to develop.

A numbered company came to council in May, asking to build a truck stop at 7750 Dallas Drive. But council voted against the plans, after complaints came up from nearby resident about trucks going in and out at all hours of the day.

The city’s director of development services, Marvin Kwiatkowski, says the new plan means no semi-truck traffic would be using the property.

“It’s to permit a fuel bar and restaurant, so what we had six months was also a cardlock, and that would’ve been 24-7. So that’s the key change… that’s a fairly significant item,” he says.

“It has even a little single-bay car wash, basically on the east side in the centre is the convenience store as well as restaurant. And then you’ll have the fuel bar basically on the west side. So yes, it takes up both sides still.”

Kwiatkowski says the owners have done more work to consult residents in the past six months.

Specifically, the property owners are asking that a covenant be removed from the property that restricts a gas station or similar uses from being built on the site. The property is already zoned for that type of usage.

Kwiatkowski says the covenant has been in place for two decades and says current administration isn’t sure exactly why it was brought in.

“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 told councillors in May.

Council will be asked tomorrow to advance the proposed property usage to a public hearing.