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REPORT
CLERK'S DEPARTMENT
Meeting:
General Purpose and Administration Committee
Date:
March 6, 2006
Report #: CLD-005-06
File #:
By-law #:
Subject:
Hours of Operation For Gas Stations
RECOMMENDATIONS:
It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and Administration Committee
recommend to Council the following:
1. THAT Report CLD-005-06 be received for information.
Submitted by:
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Reviewed by: '--..I - ,j
Franklin Wu,
Chief Administrative Officer
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CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON
40 TEMPERANCE STREET, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO L 1C 3A6 T 905-623-3379 F 905-623-6506
REPORT NO.: CLO-OOS-06
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BACKGROUND
At the regular meeting held on October 17, 2005, Committee considered Planning
Report PSD-122-05 for a rezoning of land located at 114 Liberty Street South in
Bowmanville. The property is owned by Shell Canada and operated as a Beaver gas
station. It is Shell Canada's intention to clear and rebuild the existing site and operate
on a 24 hour basis. At the meeting staff were directed to "examine the feasibility of
hours of operations."
A Community Meeting was subsequently called by the Planning Department to
address neighbourhood concerns over the rezoning application. During the
Community Meeting there was much discussion concerning the possible 24 hour
operation of the new gas station. Shell Canada's representatives were clear that the
company's intention is to move all their facilities to 24 hour operation.
ANAL YSIS
There are 24 gas stations currently operating in Clarington. Of these, 12 stations are
located adjacent to residential areas and 10 of the 24 are operating on a 24-hour basis.
Like the Beaver gas station, 5 of these 24-hour stations are located directly adjacent to
residential areas. A sixth station, currently under reconstruction at the corner of
Highway 2 and Darlington Boulevard, is believed to be preparing to operate on a 24
hour basis but that has not been confirmed.
For Council's reference, a table showing the location and hours of operation of the
currently operating stations has been attached hereto.
OPTIONS
The Municipal Act allows the local municipality to control hours of operation in two ways.
Section 148 states,
':.4 local municipality may require that retail business establishments be closed to
the public on all or any days of the week during any time between 6 p.m. of any
day and 5 a.m. of the next day."
Staff have conferred with the solicitor and he has confirmed that there is no provision in
this section to allow any business within the class to be grandfathered or excluded from
the regulation of the hours of operation. If it is Council's wish to restrict the hours of
operation, the by-law would impact all the current 24 hour operations within the
Municipality, with the only possible exception being the Esso station because it is
located on Highway 401.
CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON
40 TEMPERANCE STREET, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO L 1C 3A6 T 905-623-3379 F 905-623-6506
REPORT NO.: CLD-OOS-06
PAGE3of4
The second option to control or regulate hours of operation is through section 150 of the
Municipal Act. This is the trade licencing section of the Act which states that a local
municipality may,
"license, regulate and govern any business wholly or partly carried on within the
municipality even if the business is being carried on from a location outside the
municipality. "
The licencing power is limited; the municipality must justify its reasons for licencing a
particular class or group of businesses. The only criteria to be considered are:
1. Health and safety.
2. Nuisance control.
3. Consumer protection.
If the reason for licencing a group of class of business does not fall into one of these
three categories, the by-law would be illegal.
There are no issues of health and safety involved in this matter, nor do staff
contemplate a need for inspections related to health and safety at this time. There are
no consumer protection issues that licencing would be able to address. This leaves
only the category of nuisance control.
Although there were a number of concerns raised over noise and nuisance at the
community meeting, there is no proof of an existing problem for staff to rely on in
making a determination to licence under this category.
In the last fifteen years staff have received only four nuisance related calls involving gas
stations. These were for a misdirected flood light in the yard, a watchdog barking in the
rear of a closed station and two for the delivery of fuel overnight (both of these involved
facilities which were closed at the time of delivery). Shell Canada has indicated that
they will restrict the hours of fuel delivery to daytime hours only.
CONCLUSION
In researching this subject staff were able to find other municipalities which had
regulated gas station hours of operation under the preceeding Municipal Act, before the
requirement existed for justification of the by-law. These by-laws would have expired
shortly after the current Municipal Act came into force. We have been unable to find
any municipalities who have continued to regulate gas station hours of operation since
the current Act came into effect in 2001.
CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON
40 TEMPERANCE STREET, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO L 1C 3A6 T 905-623-3379 F 905-623-6506
REPORT NO.: CLD-OOS-06
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The Municipal Solicitor has confirmed that the Municipality cannot impose licencing
criteria on the basis of a potential or perceived problem. If the station does rebuild and
open as a 24-hour operation, staff will monitor the situation. If a significant problem
develops that can be attributed to the extended hours of operation, then the Municipality
may move to impose a licencing program to address those issues. This would require
licencing of all gas stations within Clarington.
ATTACHMENT 1 GAS STATION SURVEY
CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON
40 TEMPERANCE STREET, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO L 1C 3A6 T 905-623-3379 F 905-623-6506
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