Transportation terminal at 8329 Esquesing Line approved by Milton Council on December 8, 2025

What Council decided

On December 8, 2025, Milton Council approved a zoning application by 2369219 Ontario Inc. for 8329 Esquesing Line (file Z-02/25). Resolution 174-25, moved by Councillor Challinor and seconded by Councillor Malboeuf, approved amendments to both of the Town's comprehensive zoning by-laws, the urban By-law 016-2014 and the rural By-law 144-2003, on the recommendation of technical report DS-066-25. The motion carried. At the end of the meeting Council passed the two implementing by-laws, 103-2025 and 104-2025.

What was applied for

The Town's notice of the application, dated February 21, 2025, places the property on the east side of Esquesing Line, north of James Snow Parkway. The owner applied to allow a transportation terminal with a building of about 1,200 square metres. The front part of the land was to move from a Future Development zone to a site-specific General Industrial (M2) zone, with a strip rezoned Greenlands A to create an environmental buffer beside the watercourse that crosses the site.

How the file moved

The applicant supported the filing with a traffic brief, a comprehensive environmental site servicing study, a photometric plan and a topographic survey, the notice says. Council held the statutory public meeting on March 17, 2025, and received the initial report for information; the minutes do not record any member of the public speaking. In the fall, the Town commissioned a peer review for the file: Council's November 3, 2025 purchasing report records an assignment awarded to WSP Canada Inc. for $53,653, before HST, under delegated authority. The approval followed five weeks later.

Where it stands

The rezoning is approved. A zoning approval is not a building permit; further Town approvals, such as site plan approval, typically follow before construction. As of November 9, 2026, MiltonIQ could not confirm from the Town's published pages whether the by-laws were appealed or whether work on the site has begun.

The decision is part of a run of truck-related approvals in Milton's employment lands. In February 2025, Council allowed a commercial truck dealership at 7265 No. 5 Side Road, and in September 2026 it approved a truck terminal there and a warehouse and transportation terminal at 7072 Sixth Line.