Principle

Facilitate goods movement throughout St. Albert while minimizing its negative impacts on residential and other sensitive areas.

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The efficient movement of goods is essential to St. Albert’s local economy, as well as the broader economy. Goods movement corridors include St. Albert Trail, Ray Gibbon Drive, and railways. The following policies encourage a collaborative approach to managing the movement of goods in St. Albert while promoting public safety and reducing potentially adverse effects of goods movement through the city.

Policies

8.6.1.

Encourage the location of warehouses and local distribution centres in areas that provide direct roadway connections to goods movement corridors so that they support the access needs of the logistics industry.
 

8.6.2.

Ensure dangerous goods routes are reviewed and updated regularly to respond to new trends in the movement of such goods and the city’s evolving land use context.
 

8.6.3.

Ensure commercial, mixed-use, and employment development includes adequate loading zones and access for goods delivery with minimal impact to the public realm.
 

8.6.4.

Develop a strategy to manage and facilitate delivery services and potential conflicts between delivery service operational requirements and other road users.
 

8.6.5.

Require new development in proximity to railway operations be appropriately located, designed, and buffered, thereby promoting public safety and mitigating adverse impacts from noise and vibration.
 

8.6.6.

Require a noise study, vibration study, or both, prepared by a qualified professional, for proposed residential development and other sensitive land uses along goods movement corridors, to mitigate associated adverse impacts.
 

8.6.7.

Work with municipal, regional, and provincial partners on the planning and implementation of regional goods movement corridors.
 

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