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MEETING: General Purpose and Administration Committee
DATE: Monday, March 21, 1988
REPORT #: PD -64 -88 FILE #: PLN 19.1
SUBJECT: TOWN OF NEWCASTLE DEVELOPMENT
CHARGES AND LOT LEVIES
OUR FILE: PLN 19.1
RECOMMENDATIONS:
It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and Administration
Committee recommend to Council the following:
1. THAT Report PD -64 -88 be received; and
2. THAT By -law 83 -22 as amended, be further amended to implement the
proposed Schedule of Lot Levies contained in Attachment No. 1 to
Staff Report PD- 64 -88; and
3. THAT all developers that have executed Development Agreements with
the Town of Newcastle for which lot levy charges are outstanding,
be provided notice of the foregoing changes confirming that the new
levies shall take effect as prescribed by the applicable terms of their
Development Agreement.
BACKGROUND AND COMMENT:
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Within By -law 83 -22, being a by -law to establish a scale of development charges,
Section 1.6 states that the Town of Newcastle shall review the schedule of
development charges annually and shall adjust the amount of the development charges
in accordance with the increase of capital costs as may be appropriate and the Town
will use the Southam Construction Index for calculating such adjustments.
REPORT NO.: PD -64 -88
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The Southam Construction Index for the period of April, 1987 to December, 1987
shows an increase of 4.80. It is noted that the last increase, as noted
within Report PD- 24 -87, represented the necessary increase to the lot
development charges to and including the month of April, 1987.
Accordingly and in consideration of the above comments, Staff respectfully
recommend that Council adopt the following recommendations:
"l. THAT By -law 83 -22 as amended, be further amended to implement the
proposed Schedule of Lot Levies contained in Attachment No. 1 to
Staff Report PD- 64 -88; and
2. THAT all developers that have executed Development Agreements with
the Town of Newcastle for which lot levy charges are outstanding,
be provided notice of the foregoing changes confirming that the new
levies shall take effect as prescribed by the applicable terms of their
Development Agreement."
Should Committee and Council approve the above -noted recommendations and the
amending by -law, notices will be forwarded to the various developers, affected
by the adjustments, advising them that the Town will be exercising its option,
pursuant to the terms of the Subdivider's Agreement, to adjust the development
charges.
Respectfully submitted,
T.T. Edwards, M.C.I.P.
Director of Planning
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*Attach.
March 7, 1988
Recommended for presentation
to the Committee
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Chief rati ve Officer
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THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE
BY -LAW NUMBER 88-
being a By -law to amend By -law No. 83 -22, as amended, A By -law to revise the
scale of development charges for the Town of Newcastle.
WHEREAS By -law 83 -22, as amended, of the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle
established a scale of development charges;
AND WHEREAS pursuant to the provisions of By -law No. 83 -22, as amended, the
Town is to review annually the Schedule of Development Charges;
AND WHEREAS as a result of such review the Council of the Town of Newcastle
deems it advisable to revise its Schedule of Development Charges;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle hereby
enacts as follows:
1. Paragraph 1.1 of Schedule "A" to By -law 83 -22, as amended, is hereby
deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following new Paragraph 1.1:
111.1 On land severances, plans of subdivision, condominium applications, and
rezonings for residential development in the urban areas of Bowmanville,
Courtice and Newcastle Village, the following charges are payable:
Low Density residential developments x$2,305.00 per unit
(including single and semi - detached
dwellings and duplex dwellings)
Medium Density residential developments $2,305.00 per unit
(including townhousing and mobile home
units)
High Density residential developments $1,310.00 per unit
(including all types of apartment units)"
2. Paragraph 1.2 of Schedule "A" to By -law 83 -22, as amended, is hereby
deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following new Paragraph 1.2.
"1.2 On land severances, plans of subdivisions, condominium applications and
rezoning for residential development in all areas of the Town, not
specified by Paragraph 1.1 above, the following charges are payable:
Low Density residential developments $1,545.00 per unit
(including single and semi - detached
dwellings and duplex dwellings)
Medium Density residential developments $1,545.00 per unit
(including townhousing and mobile home
units)
High Density residential developments $ 880.00 per unit
(including all types of apartment units)"
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3. The provisions of this By -law shall take effect on the date of passing
hereof.
BY -LAW read a first time this day of 1988
BY -LAW read a second time this day of 1988
BY -LAW read a third time and finally passed this day of
1988.
MAYOR
CLERK
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