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Restaurant, gas station planned for Pontypool
Lisa Gervais, Lindsay Post

A new restaurant, convenience store and gas station is planned to open in August at the site of the former auto shop on Pontypool Road.

The Kawartha Lakes Rd. 12 development is the brainchild of long time Pontypool resident, Roy Gaynor.

Gaynor told the post it would be an “ultramodern, full facility.” The plan is for a Country Style donut outlet and an XTR Gas station with gas and diesel as well as convenience store. Gaynor is building the facility but plans to lease it out.

He is banking on the venture saying there are not many service stations en route to Lindsay and Peterborough once motorists depart gasoline alley. He anticipates getting a lot of vehicular traffic coming north off the 401 as well as a lot of Peterborough motorists coming off of the 115.

He said the local response to the project had been “more than favourable. Everybody is anxious for it.”

It hasn’t been an easy street for this development. There have been a few planning and rezoning headaches as the property, at 232 John Street, is in the Oak Ridges Moraine.

However, Gaynor was recently successful in getting the Holding symbol from schedule “A” of the moraine zoning by-law 2005-133 removed.

“We’re building it,” he said.