The Dixie Road zoning order permits industrial uses including data centres, trucking yards and cold-storage warehouses on designated lands at 12489 and 12861 Dixie Road in Caledon. Its detailed rules also limit four commercial uses to existing buildings and retain environmental zoning on part of the mapped site.
What the Dixie Road zoning order allows
Order 008-2026, signed October 23, sets a maximum building height of 30 metres, with a 45-metre exception for cold-storage warehouses. Business offices, financial institutions, restaurants and retail stores are permitted only in buildings or structures that existed when the order took effect.
The order's map shows two separate subject areas east of Dixie Road, with Environmental Policy Area 1 zoning within the northerly area. That zone retains the Town bylaw's corresponding permitted uses and zoning requirements. The map expressly says it is not a plan of survey.
Planning changes and unresolved delivery questions
The Ministry's decision notice describes approximately 82 hectares outside the Greenbelt. It says the order exempts the lands from site-plan control and removes provincial-policy, provincial-plan and official-plan requirements for subsequent approvals before a permitted use is established.
The Ministry reports receiving concerns about noise, cold-storage operations near future residential uses, transportation impacts, natural features, cultural heritage and the site-plan exemption. Those are reported consultation concerns, not findings that particular impacts have occurred.
The Dixie Road zoning order establishes land-use permissions. Neither the order nor the decision notice supplies a funded construction schedule or establishes that development has begun.
AI-generated conceptual illustration; the buildings, landscape and drawing are fictional, not the approved site design, actual Dixie Road lands or the order’s map.
