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Town starts rezoning process for UFA cardlock

Moosomin Town Council

August 25, 2025, 8:57 am
Kara Kinna

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At their meeting on Wednesday, Moosomin town council passed a motion to start the rezoning process on land at 1814 Celebration Drive to accommodate a UFA cardlock and bulk fuel facility at that location. The land needs to be rezoned from commercial to industrial in order to accommodate the cardlock.

The decision was made after council sat down with representatives from UFA at the meeting on Wednesday to get more details on the project.
The town also received several letters of support for the project—one from Tyler Thorn, the owner of Celebration Ford, and one from resident Jeff Cole.

Council also heard some concerns at the meeting from Aaron Grandguillot, the owner of Skout Brewing, who also attended the meeting to listen to the UFA presentation. Skout Brewing is located directly across from the land where the cardlock and bulk fuel facility would be located.

Council decided that starting the rezoning process would allow for all parties to have their say through the rezoning process that is required.

The UFA reps that council met with included Steven Marshall, Director of Saskatchewan Petroleum with UFA, and Craig Marriot, Saskatchewan Area Manager for UFA fuels. Council had invited UFA to the meeting to hear more about the project.

Marshall said UFA was excited to be moving into Saskatchewan and coming to Moosomin.

“We look at Saskatchewan as being the land of opportunity from the agriculture perspective particularly,” said Marshall.

He said over the next five years UFA was looking to continue to build sites and expand in Saskatchewan.

“We want to be good corporate citizens, we were excited to come to Moosomin.
We opened Yorkton and Weyburn in 2023 and at the time we were looking at opportunity in Moosomin. We picked a piece of property and there was uncertainty from Sask Highways about if there would be changes at that location, so we stepped back and took a pause and looked for a new site.

“This is not a flash in the pan. We want to come into Saskatchewan and do the right thing and build facilities that are here for generations

“We believe that Moosomin being on the Trans-Canada Highway and with the strong ag and commercial businesses you have in this community, that Moosomin is a good place to be.”

“There has been a large demand from the community to build in Moosomin,” said Craig Marriot.

Marshall added that when UFA built their location in Weyburn, they had people approach them at that time about building a site in Moosomin.

If the rezoning is successful, the new UFA site would start with three fuel storage tanks, and could have up to five tanks as the site matures.

“We don’t want to build a 25 tank farm. We would rather have adequate fuel to serve the community and have fresh fuel,” said Marshall.

The five-acre site would also include a small retail building, washrooms, showers, and a cold-storage lubricant warehouse.

The site would be run by a petroleum agent who would be an independent contractor who would hire their own staff and use their own fuel trucks and run the site following UFA’s policies and procedures.

“We want to make sure it’s in a location that is suitable for the community and will not interfere with someone else’s business,” said Marshall, recognizing that the site was across from Skout Brewing.

Both UFA reps gave Grandguillot their cards before leaving the meeting, so that he could discuss any concerns with them, and they made the comment that they would be willing to work to accommodate any concerns.

After the UFA delegation Grandguillot told council that he feels having UFA is overall good for Moosomin, but also has some concerns with a growing brew pub and burgeoning restaurant across the road from the site.

He said he would put his concerns into writing, but would also consider working with UFA and the town to address those concerns.

A public hearing will be held as part of the rezoning process.



Concern about lake line meters
The town received a letter of concern from the acreage owners connected to the town of Moosomin’s lake water line distribution system. The acreage owners pay $480 a quarter (three times the town rate) for non-potable water from the line, and were concerned with the town’s decision to install electronic water meters on their properties, fearing that the town would use the meters for overage charges. Because the water is non-potable, the acreage owners do not pay any overage charges, and previously there were no meters at their properties.

The town agreed to change their bylaw to make it clear that the meters will not be used to charge for water overage, but are being used only to collect water data.

Taxes cancelled for new grocery store
As per the town’s commercial tax incentive program, council passed a motion to cancel all of the 2025 taxes on Borderland Co-op’s new food store, and part of the taxes on the old store, which was demolished on April 29, 2025.
Borderland Co-op will receive a tax break of $58,455.30 for 2025.

Dog park construction moving ahead
Council passed a motion to allow construction on the new dog park to move ahead. While there is still some fundraising to do for the dog park, Rec Director Mike Schwean said at the meeting on Wednesday that much of the fundraising dollars are in place now and he felt construction could proceed.
The dog park is being built on the southwest side of Bradley Park, next to Highway 8.

Condo owners want to understand tax increases
Council received a letter from the Windover Place Condominium Corporation unit owners about property tax increases to their individual units. The condos are at the former site of the Moosomin nursing home, on the corner of Windover Avenue and Willow Street. The owners said all units have seen an increase of several hundred dollars, and wanted the town to help them understand why their taxes went up.

With 2025 being a reassessment year, the town saw some properties’ taxes go up, while others went down.

Council decided to refer the Condominium Corporation to their SAMA rep to explain the property tax increase.

There was no change to the town’s mill rate in 2025, and overall the town took in less in taxation than in the previous year.

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