{"id":664336,"date":"2026-05-12T11:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/664336\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:35:09","slug":"surrey-council-approves-industrial-designation-review-in-central-newton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/664336\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey council approves industrial designation review in central Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Surrey council approves industrial designation review in central Newton<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 11:15 pm Monday, May 11, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Surrey city staff provided council with a status report Monday concerning an industrial designation review in central Newton that includes consulting property owners in the study area in the next two or three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The area being studied is bound by 128 Street to the east, residential lots on the west, 80 Avenue to the north and 76 Avenue to the south.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is good news and partly what we saw, partly driven by the Focus Newton Task Force,\u201d Mayor Brenda Locke remarked.<\/p>\n<p>At its regular land use meeting on February 23, a proposal to build a five-storey commercial building came before council. Council considered the 7,466 square-metre lot application but rather than sending it to a public hearing requested city staff to do a comprehensive review of the related area to see if the industrial designation should be maintained.<\/p>\n<p>The study area contains 24 lots ranging from 1,800 square metres to 9,500 square metres with the majority zoned for light impact industrial or comprehensive development, permitting uses such as warehousing, office, automotive uses, recycling depots and recreation facilities as well as accessory uses such as coffee shops, community uses and childcare centres.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Gill, Surrey\u2019s general manager of planning and development, noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/corporate-reports\/CR_2026-R089.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">corporate report<\/a> that the study area directly abuts residential properties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile industrial uses next to housing can create compatibility issues, these are typically managed through requirements such as landscaped buffers and minimum building setbacks from residential lots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also immediately south of south of Surrey\u2019s Newton Cultural District \u2013 Canada\u2019s largest South Asian shopping district \u2013 covering 40 acres \u201ccentred on\u201d the intersection of 80 Avenue and 128 Street.<\/p>\n<p>Gill noted that market demand associated with the district \u201cis evidenced by previous land use re-designations from Industrial to Mixed Employment\u201d and since 2022 city hall has received three development applications in that area seeking an Official Community Plan amendment favoring this.<\/p>\n<p>Gill also noted in his report that a \u201cbroader re-designation\u201d for the study area would \u201cbetter align land use policy with changing conditions in the area immediately south of the Newton Cultural District, including demonstrated demand for complementary commercial and employment uses and the area\u2019s strong transit connections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey council approves industrial designation review in central Newton Published 11:15 pm Monday, May 11, 2026 Surrey city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-664336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}