A proposed new drive-thru eatery in East Ladner inched closer to final approval.
Metro Vancouver recently notified the City of Delta that the proposed amended land use from agricultural to rural at 9568 Burns Drive does not require a regional land use amendment or Regional Context Statement amendment.
The city had made to application to the regional district for the amendment to the regional growth strategy following council’s conditional approval of the development earlier this year for the drive-thru restaurant and three-storey self-storage facility with office use.
City council had voted 4-2 to give the conditional approval for the development at the southwest corner of Burns Drive and 96th Street, which would include a new A&W drive-thru.
Jeannie Kanakos and Lois Jackson voted against the application, saying it was a bad location after the farming community expressed concerns with traffic in the area.
The application was put on hold following a public hearing in December after council requested further clarification on traffic impacts and current enforcement of on-street parking in the vicinity of the site on Burns Drive.
Delta staff conducted a number of site visits to review the traffic and parking issues.
“Short-term parking in the vicinity of the existing commercial businesses is reducing the ability for large farm vehicles to travel along Burns Drive for access to and from 96th Street,” wrote director of planning Marcy Sangret in a council report. “As a measure to increase enforceability, the existing no parking signs are being replaced with no stopping signs.”
The Burns Drive site, adjacent to the Tim Hortons/Esso gas station complex near the junction of Highway 99 and Ladner Trunk Road, had previously been used as nursery but is now vacant.
