Dairy Queen wants to make Kamloops its cake capital of western Canada.

A proposal has forward to build a second Dairy Queen in Aberdeen, which would have a cake production facility and an employee training facility.

“It meets the development permit guidelines in respect to the design, building, layout and the landscaping. They have provided 39 parking stalls, four bicycle parking spaces and then stacking for 10 vehicles in the drive thru. All of those meet the zoning bylaw,” Marvin Kwiatkowski says, the director of development services with the City of Kamloops.

Coun. Denis Walsh asked Kwiatkowski about traffic concerns in that complex near Cascades Casino. Walsh says even with the casino closed, traffic is still significantly in that area.

“There was a traffic impact assessment completed for this project. So yes, that was completed. And I believe there’s right-in and right-out for this property… We can get into the details at the public hearing on that issue. That was looked at in the past, as well, with the casino project and with closing the access into the hotel. So that was sort of addressed a couple years back, but a new TIA (traffic impact assessment) has been done for this,” Kwiatkowski says.

The facility would be located at 1560 Versatile Drive, which is almost directly across the street from a Dairy Queen on Hugh Allan Drive. The developers would tear down an existing building on the property before putting up the new one.

The property would need to be rezoned to allow the training facility usage, which needs approval from city council.

The plans will go to a public hearing on March 30.

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