A Saanich Peninsula entrepreneur who lost a bid to convince Sidney council to change an industrial zoning designation in West Sidney plans to re-open her dog grooming business in Central Saanich.
Kathy Banks announced Pooch Parlour is setting up a new space at 7135 West Saanich Rd. in the heart of Brentwood Bay and hopes to open in early May.
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Banks is still setting up her new space but will update the public about when her two-month closure will officially come to an end.
The groomer rejected an offer by Sidney council to apply for a temporary use permit to reopen in an industrial space on Malaview Avenue West.
Her business was shut down there in March after Banks, who operated for years elsewhere in Sidney, applied in January 2022 to renew her business licence at the new address. Staff told her the proposed use for the space, personal services, did not comply with the M1 zoning.
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While SidneyB次元官网网址檚 committee-of-the-whole initially recommended that council support her application to amend the OCP and zoning for the location, Mayor Cliff McNeil-Smith and Coun. Scott Garnett switched their committee-of-the-whole votes, joining Couns. Barbara Fallot and Terri OB次元官网网址橩eeffe in opposing the recommendation.
Council instead passed a motion to rezone the space on Malaview for temporary use, while inviting Banks to apply for a temporary use permit good for one year from its issuance, a process not without added costs, bureaucratic hurdles and stress, Banks told Black Press Media afterward.
In the end, she chose not to pursue overcoming those hurdles and sought suitable space elsewhere on the Peninsula.
Black Press Media reached out to Banks for comment.
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