BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

Developer King and Benton has a green light to procedd with its plan to establish Oak Park North, a privately owned 450-acre industrial park on the city's northwest outskirts.

Council has given conditional approval to applications from King and Benton Development Corp. for official plan and zoning bylaw amendments that set the stage for the company to create its business park out of three parcels of land: 120 acres on the west side of Oak Park Road, north of Highway 403, 303 acres on the east side, and about 20 acres on the Brant county side which are subject to a separate agreement.

Coun. Greg Martin, chairman fo the community development committee, praised the project for making more industrial land available to maintain the city's srong development pace.

"We're almost out of land,"he said for the city's industrial parks."It's nice to see the private sector stepping up with this initiative."