{"id":771341,"date":"2026-06-30T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/771341\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:00:09","slug":"surrey-zoning-bylaw-change-to-clearly-specify-restricted-number-of-worship-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/771341\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey zoning bylaw change to \u2018clearly specify\u2019 restricted number of worship places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Surrey zoning bylaw change to \u2018clearly specify\u2019 restricted number of worship places<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 7:30 am Tuesday, June 30, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Surrey council approved a zoning bylaw amendment on June 29 to \u201cclearly specify\u201d the number of places of worship permitted in select industrial zones.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/corporate-reports\/CR_2026-R128.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">corporate report<\/a> by Ron Gill, Surrey\u2019s manager of planning and development, says the amendments specify how many \u201cplaces of worship\u201d may operate on-site, at any one time, related to various business park and light impact industrial zones.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments as proposed see no more than one place of worship permitted on each lot. All strata lots within a single strata plan could together contain only a single place of worship, and a place of worship \u201cshall not exceed\u201d a gross floor area of 700 square metres.<\/p>\n<p>The matter will now go to a public hearing on July 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey zoning bylaw change to \u2018clearly specify\u2019 restricted number of worship places Published 7:30 am Tuesday, June 30,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-771341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771341","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=771341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}