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PEACHLAND’S DCC
Development Cost Charge shock waves quelled in 4-step Boogie
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By Keith Fielding
t an Urban Systems-led council workshop held at the end of October, council heard some shocking news. Using the information available at that time, Peachland’s Development Cost Charges (DCCs) payable by a developer wanting to build a single family home on a residential lot, would need to go from their present level of $31,000 to $80,000, making Peachland’s DCCs the highest in the Okanagan. “That will scare away our developers,” noted Mayor Van Minsel, at the time. “We need to end up in the middle of the pack.” Back to the beginning: what are DCCs? The Urban Systems report reminds us that DCCs are a financial tool that helps communities to claim from developers the cost of the infrastructure improvements needed
GOING FROM 80.3 TO 36.4 COULD HELP CALM “NO GROWTH” FEARS
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The perfect setting for quiet contemplation about Development Cost Charges.
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to facilitate growth -- those being for roads, water, sewer, drainage, fire halls and police stations. Other growth-related costs such as those in social, recreational and environmental areas are captured from developers through community amenity charges. Those too, council learned, were being under-recovered and should be increased. However, that was not the only dramatic news. Council also learned that even with the enhanced DCCs, Peachland’s share of the financial burden associated with maintaining its current and future infrastructure assets would need to increase from its current level of approximately $1 million per year to $6 million per year, every year for the next 20 years. At the time, CAO Joe Creron noted that all municipalities were in a similar situation due in part to lack of infrastructure funding coming from federal and provincial sources. It was also noted that the 20-year program of capital works underlying the DCC calculations, as well as the assumptions used to determine costs, were all subject to review.
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