HomeMy WebLinkAbout74-64REPORT NO.8
REPO iT ON LAND DIVISION CO11i,iITTEE DECISIONS
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Since the last meeting of the Planning Advisory Committee no decision
of the Land Division Committee have been made which were contrary
to our recommendations. however, in the case of application LD 33V74
the condition regarding payment of lot levies was not approved by the
LDC. Since this involves a loss of $ 1200 to the municipality, I have
instigated an appeal of this decision. I consider it most likely that
the developer will voluntarily agree to pay the $1200 rather than
proceed with the appeal, in which case the appeal will be withdrawn.
On the general question of lot levies I would like to point out to the
committee that the Town of Newcastle is now the only municipality in the
Region of Durham which collects no lot levies on severance applications®
I presented a suggested schedule of lot levies to this committee some
time ago, bizt it was tabled for further discussion. In the meantime
our municipal treasury is losing thousands of dollars every week in
comparison with the amounts being received by other municipalities
processing similar applications. I think that members of the committee
were anxious to establish a reasonable schedule of levies in relation
to the actual municipal costs arising from various types of development.
I think that this is a laudable objective, but it would require a
sophisticated economic analysis which we are presently in no position
to undertake. I think that in the short run the best thing for us to
do is to establish a set of levies which is reasonably consistant with
what other municipalities in the Region are doing. If we go on collec-
ting nothing, it means that our present taxpayers are having to pay the
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full cost of increased services required to accomodate new development.
In these circumstances I would recommend that Mr. Layng be authorized:
a) to review my recommended schedule of levies,
b) to discuss with the Region (who now are collecting their own levies
for lots within subdivisions) the proposed financing of itieglonal
services,
c) to contact the other municipalities in the Region to find out what
levies they are charging(my figures are for 1973),
d) to recommend to this committee an appropriate schedule of lot
levies for approval by council.
Respectfully submitted,
George Fa Howden,
Planning director,