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Visit our website at peachlandpost.org • Vol. 2 Issue 13
ABOUT TOWN Find out what’s going on and where it’s happening P.11
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DCC BALANCING ACT By Jeff McDonald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
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hen a town grows – new housing, apartment blocks, commercial buildings – naturally the infrastructure provided by the town, like roads and water and sewers and parks, has to grow too. How those added capital costs are paid for is what development cost charges (DCCs) do – they help communities recover costs from developers of infrastructure driven by growth. But developers don’t pay 100 per cent of those capital costs. Peachland taxpayers pay a portion of them too, because there is benefit to the community as well as to the developer. The District of Peachland is in the consultation stage of updating the DCC bylaw that dictates what percentage devel-
Peachland Council seeks to weigh development costs against community benefit
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Projects like these upgrades to Cousins Road in Peachland are driven by growth and are partly paid for through development cost charges.
opers pay versus what will be absorbed by the municipality. Peachland council is seeking a balance between DCCs that developers feel are too high, causing them to look to build in other municipalities and potentially leaving Peachland to stagnate, and DCCs that are too low, which
might bring more projects to town but put a heavy burden for growth-driven infrastructure costs onto Peachland taxpayers. Peachland council and staff have many ways to get to the DCC rates it believes are appropriate, which is in the middle of the pack for Okanagan cities
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and towns. It can delay projects, reduce their projected scope and cost, increase the proportion of benefit accruing to the municipality and reduce the proportion to be borne by the developer. And council is doing all those things SEE COSTS PAGE 7
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