AMAZON Facility 2175 Cornwall Road 1
E2- Business Employment vs. E3 - Industrial 2
Permitted Uses in E2/E3 Zones • Uses permitted in both zones - Adult entertainment, business office, conservation use, contractors establishment, dry cleaning/laundry establishment, emergency service facility, manufacturing, outside storage, public park, parking area - heavy vehicle, public works yard, rental establishment, repair shop, sports facility, stormwater management facility, taxi dispatch, training facility and warehousing. • Uses only permitted in E2 - Art gallery, commercial school, day care, drive-through facility, financial institution, food bank, food production, hotel, medical office, outside display and sales area, restaurant, retail store - accessory and show room and private school. • Uses only permitted in E3 - Bulk storage facility, motor vehicle storage compound, outside processing, transportation terminal, waste processing station, and waste transfer station. 3
Notes - Permitted Uses in E2/E3 Zones • There is no difference in the nature of a “warehousing”, “manufacturing” or other uses in an E2 zone and the same type of use in an E3 zone. • Both E2 and E3 zones include: – uses that could have similar or greater impacts on adjacent lands (manufacturing, contractors establishment, public works yard) – uses that involve heavy trucks – u ses which permit “dispatching” (taxi dispatch) 4
Warehousing/Distribution 5
Permitted Uses – Definitions – 2014-014 Use E2 E3 Warehousing A “warehousing” use means “a premises (building) for the indoor storage and freight distribution of goods, wares, merchandise, substances, articles, or products. • The focus of the use is on the storage or movement of “goods” (rather than providing a separate trucking/freight/transportation service). • This type of use may include outside storage of tractor trailers and other vehicles (s. 10.6) 6
Canada Post Distribution Depot 2420 Speers Rd, Oakville Zoning: E1 7
Former UPS Facility - 2175 Cornwall Rd, Oakville Zoning: E2 8
Transportation Terminals 9
Permitted Uses – Definitions – 2014-014 Use E2 E3 Transportation terminal A “transportation terminal” means a premises (building) or area of land used for the storing, parking or dispatching of buses, trucks, tractors, or trailers, including servicing or repair within an enclosed building. • Focus is on the heavy vehicles (rather than goods) • This type of use may include outside storage of tractor trailers, cross docking of tractor trailer trucks and transportation logistics. 10
Caravan Group of Companies 2284 Wyecroft Rd, Oakville Zoning: E3 11
Oakville Transit Facility 430 Wyecroft Rd, Oakville Zoning: E3-3 12
Trimac Transportation & Musket Transport 452 and 556 Southdown Rd, Mississauga Zoning: E2-108 13
AMAZON – 2175 Cornwall Road • AMAZON is not a “transportation terminal” as it is not in the business of storing, parking or dispatching of buses, trucks, tractors, or trailers, including servicing or repair within an enclosed building, as a primary use. • The primary use of the proposed AMAZON facility is the indoor storage and freight distribution of goods, wares, merchandise, substances, articles, or products. • AMAZON operations at the proposed site fit the definition of warehousing. • The proposed AMAZON operations are permitted in the existing E2 zone. 14
Amazon Fulfilment Centres Mississauga and Milton 15
Amazon Fulfilment Centres • 175 Fulfilment Centres across the globe • Fulfilment Centres are typically 400,000 to 1,000,000 sq.ft in size • Store millions of items, associates pick and pack and ship items 16
Amazon Fulfilment Centre Mississauga 6363 Millcreek Dr, Split Zoning: E2-1 and E3-9 Approved as Warehouse/Distribution Facility 17
Amazon Fulfilment Centre Mississauga 6363 Millcreek Dr, Split Zoning: E2-1 and E3-9 Approved as Warehouse/Distribution Facility • E xception zone “1” and “9” for the subject lands does not permit a “truck terminal” use on this site. • This Amazon site has been approved as a “Warehouse/Distribution Facility”, which is similar to town’s definition of “Warehousing” (i.e. storage and distribution of goods). • Amazon occupied the building since 2011. 18
Amazon Fulfilment Centre Mississauga 6363 Millcreek Dr, Split Zoning: E2-1 and E3-9 Approved as Warehouse/Distribution Facility Mississauga: Warehouse/Distribution Facility • Mississauga’s zoning by - law defines this use as: “a building, structure or part thereof, for the storage and/or distribution of goods and may include the temporary on-site storage of commercial motor vehicles (ie. trucks, tractors and/or trailers) for freight handling including the pick-up, delivery and transitory storage of goods incidental to motor freight shipment directly related to the permitted use(s).” 19
Amazon Fulfilment Centre Milton 2750 Peddie Rd, Zoning: M2 Approved as Warehouse/Distribution Centre 20
Amazon Fulfilment Centre Milton 2750 Peddie Rd, Zoning: M2 Approved as Warehouse/Distribution Centre • Amazon occupied the building since 2013. • The use was permitted as a warehouse/distribution centre. MILTON: WAREHOUSE/DISTRIBUTION CENTRE (156-2009) • Means a premises used for the storage and/or distribution of goods, wares, merchandise, substances, articles or things, within a building and may include a commercial storage facility or facilities for an accessory wholesale or retail outlet, but does not include a transportation terminal. 21
Amazon Fulfilment Centre Milton 2750 Peddie Rd, Zoning: M2 Approved as Warehouse/Distribution Centre MILTON: TRANSPORTATION TERMINAL (104-2008) (105-2009) • Means a premises where trucks, trailers or transports are parked, serviced, repaired, or kept for hire, or loaded or unloaded but does not include a towing yard, waste transfer station, a waste storage facility or a salvage yard. 22
Amazon Fulfilment Centres • AMAZON has confirmed that 2175 Cornwall Road is proposed to be a “Delivery Station/Last Mile Centre”. – Note: Zoning does not regulate business operation. A “Fulfilment Centre” and a “Delivery Station/Last Mile Centre” are both considered “warehousing”. • “Fulfilment Centres ” are typically larger in size compared to a “Delivery Station/Last Mile Centre”. • Mississauga and Milton consider an Amazon “Fulfilment Centre” as a “Warehouse/Distribution Centre” and not a “Transportation Terminal”. 23
Amazon 2175 Cornwall Road 24
Amazon 2175 Cornwall Road, Zoning: E2 Warehouse/Distribution Centre • Smaller in size compared to a “Fulfilment Centre”. • A “Fulfilment Centre” and a “Delivery Station/Last Mile Centre” are both considered “warehousing”. • “Delivery Station/Last Mile Centres ” - Packages are moved from the delivery station to the customer’s door. • The “last mile” vehicles are usually smaller than what would normally be associated with intermodal transport and shipping containers that you would expect at a transportation terminal. • Amazon vans are equivalent or similar to a Mercedes Benz Sprinter 2500 crew van, 6-cylinder and weighs approximately 5,754 lbs (2,609 kg). 25
Amazon 2175 Cornwall Road, Zoning: E2 Warehouse/Distribution Centre 26
Conclusions 27
Conclusions • Based on the review of the Site Plan and Building Permit applications, the applicant has demonstrated through supporting documents and drawings that the proposed use of the facility is “warehousing”. • The primary use of the proposed AMAZON facility is the indoor storage and freight distribution of goods, wares, merchandise, substances, articles, or products. • AMAZON operations at the proposed site fit the definition of warehousing. • The proposed AMAZON operations are permitted the existing E2 zone. 28
Conclusions • The zoning by-law does not regulate the scale or intensity of a business operation. • AMAZON is not a “transportation terminal” as it is not in the business of storing, parking or dispatching of buses, trucks, tractors, or trailers, including servicing or repair within an enclosed building, as a primary use. • CBO has determined that the proposed use is “warehousing”, as per town’s zoning by-law definition. 29
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