19 Jan 2026 Council meeting Housing

Rezoning Application No. RA524 - 1100 Maughan Road (Part 1)

Motion
That "Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2026 No. 4500.239" (to rezone 1100 Maughan Road to allow "Cannabis Retail Store" as a site-specific accessory use in the Industrial [I4] zone) pass first and second reading.
Sources
Agenda itemCity agenda
Staff reportPage 2
Purpose
To present Council with an application to amend the existing Industrial (14) zone at 1100 Maughan Road to allow “Cannabis Retail Store” as a site-specific accessory use.
Staff report, page 2
Staff recommendation
That: 1. “Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2026 No. 4500.239” (to rezone 1100 Maughan Road to allow “Cannabis Retail Store” as a site -specific accessory use in the Industrial [I4] zone) pass first reading; 2. “Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2026 No. 4500.239” pass second reading; 3. Council direct Staff to hold a Public Hearing for “Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2026 No. 4500.239”; and, 4. Council direct Staff to secure BC Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch approval prior to adoption of the bylaw, should Council support the bylaw at third reading.
Staff report, page 2
DocumentsStaff report about Economic Development, Land Use & Urban Form

Questions and answers

Councillor Janice Perrino
Speaker identificationConfident
Yes

asked
You, Worship. And the questions through you. And thank you for being here and speaking about this. I just wondered, just given the area, do you expect to have a lot of walk-in customers? How will you deal with
A guest answered
that? Yeah, we definitely don't expect to have a lot of walking customers, as you guys are all very aware. The Duke Peninsula is very industrial, right? Certainly we have offshoots coming from BC Ferries. We expect the majority of our traffic to be coming in vehicle. Wise. Okay, so
followed up
you think it'll be more of a destination, correct location. Okay, because I. Wondered about that. I realized it's quite small, so 750 sqft is not a large. But I wondered how you expected to get people in the door, just given the location of it. But you think just
A guest answered
because. Yeah. Overall, so. What we really want to do at our site, and we currently are doing, is bringing tours to site, a lot of bud tenders and retailers around. We want to show off our operation. What we do? We're very proud of what we do, and we want to be able to open that. Up more, even to the public. As well as augmenting our tours so the option available to buy our product rate they're on site. Oh, I see. We think it'd be a greatly beneficial furthermore. We know that tourism in the Nymo is something that we're all targeting to expand. On for our local economy, and that's something that we want to lean into, is there? An option where we can provide transportation from downtown to naimo out to our site for a tour. For folks coming on tour boats or wherever. Okay,