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CoQuitlam
CityofCoquitlam
BYLAW
BYLAW NO. 5411, 2025
A Bylaw to Impose Development Cost Charges
WHEREAS:
A.
Council of the City of Coquitlam ("Council") under authority provided by the
Local Government Act, R.S. B.C. 2015, c. 1, as amended (the "Local Government
Act"}, in particular section 559 thereof and regulations passed pursuant
thereto, and the general provisions of the Community Charter, S.B.C. 2003, c.
26 (the "Community Charter"), may, by bylaw, impose development cost
charges;
B.
The development cost charges may be imposed for the purposes of, among
other things, providing funds to assist the City of Coquitlam (the "City") to
pay the capital costs of providing, constructing, altering or expanding
sewage, water, drainage fire protection, police and highway facilities, other
than off-street parking facilities, and acquiring park land and improving park
land to service, directly or indirectly, the development for which the charge is
being imposed;
C.
Council has taken into consideration the factors prescribed in Section 564(4)
of the Local Government Act; and
D.
The charges to be imposed by this bylaw are related to capital costs
attributable to projects included in the City's capital expenditure program
and are consistent with the City of Coquitlam Citywide Official Community
Plan Bylaw No. 3479, 2001, as amended from time to time.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council for the City of Coquitlam, in open meeting lawfully
assembled, ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1.
Name of the Bylaw
1. 1
This Bylaw may be cited for all purposes as "Development Cost
Charges Bylaw No. 5411 , 2025".
2.
Effective Date and Transitional Provisions
2. 1
This Bylaw \N\\\
come into force on the Effective Date.
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Development Cost Charges Bylaw No. 5222, 2022, and all
amendments thereto, shall be wholly repealed on the Effective Date.
2.3
Despite section 2.2, where:
(a)
a Precursor Application which is In-stream on the Effective Date
and the associated Building Permit for the Precursor
Application is issued within one year after the Effective Date;
(b)
a Subdivision Application that is In-stream on the Effective Date
and is approved by the Approving Officer within one year
after the Effective Date; or
(c)
a Building Permit Application that is In-stream on the Effective
Date and is issued within one year after the Effective Date;
Development Cost Charges Bylaw No. 5222, 2022, and all
amendments thereto, shall apply.
3.
Definitions
3. 1
Italicized words used in this Bylaw will have the meanings attributed to
them in Schedule "A" to this Bylaw.
3.2 Words not expressly defined in this Bylaw will have the meaning
ascribed to them in the Zoning Bylaw.
4.
Schedules
4. 1
Schedules "A" and "B" annexed to this Bylaw are hereby incorporated
into and form an integral part of this Bylaw.
5.
Imposition of DCC
5. 1
Subject to Section 6. 1, and in accordance with the provisions of section
559(1) of the Local Government Act, every person who obtains:
(a) approval for a Subdivision under the Land Title Act or the Strata
Property Act; or
(b) a Building Permit;
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must pay to the City at the time of approval of the Subdivision or upon
the issue of the Building Permit, as the case may be, the applicable DCC
set out in Schedule "B" in accordance with the provisions of Section 7. 1.
5.2 Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, every person who
obtains a Building Permit for the construction, alteration or extension of
a building that will, after the construction, contain fewer than four
Dwelling Units must pay to the City at the time of issue of the Building
Permit, the applicable DCCas set out in Schedule "B".
Exemption from DCC
6. 1
DCC are not payable:
(a) where the Building Permit authorizes the construction, alteration
or extension of a building or part of a building that is, or will be,
after the construction, alteration or extension, exempt from
taxation under Section 220(1 )(h) or section 224(2)(f) of the
Community Charter,
(b)
where the value of the work authorized by a Building Permit does
not exceed $50,000;
(c)
where the Development does not impose new capital cost burdens
on the City;
(d) where DCC have been previously paid for the Development unless,
as a result of further development, new capital cost burdens will
be imposed on the City; or
(e) where unit size is less than or equal to 29 square metres and each
unit is to be put to no other use other than a residential use in
those units.
7.
Calculation ofDCC
7. 1
The DCC imposed by this Bylaw will be calculated in accordance with the
charges identified in Schedule "B". Unless otherwise specifically
provided in Schedules "A" or "B" to this Bylaw, where a Development for
which a DCC applies contains two or more uses, the DCC to be paid will
be calculated separately for each use within the Development and the
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total DCCto be paid will be the sum of the DCC for all uses within the
Development.
8.
Payment of DCC
8. 1
Subject to Section 8.2, DCC imposed under this Bylaw must be paid in
full to the City as follows:
(a) as a condition of the approval of the final plan of Subdivision by the
Approving Officer where the Subdivision creates Single-detached
Residential Use, Parcels or bare land strata lots under the Strata
Property Act; or
(b) for all other types of Development to which this Bylaw applies prior
to the issuance of a Building Permit for the Development.
8.2 DCC that would otherwise be payable in full at the times indicated in
Section 8. 1 may be payable in instalments provided that the Minister
has, by regulation made pursuant to Section 559(5) of the Local
Government Act, authorized the payment of the OCCin instalments and
prescribed the conditions under which such instalments may be paid.
9.
Severability
9. 1 If any section, subsection, clause or phrase of this Bylaw is, for any
reason, held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, it will be
deemed to be severed and the remainder of the Bylaw will remain valid
and enforceable in accordance with its terms.
READ A FIRST TIME this 12th day of May, 2025.
READ A SECOND TIME this 12th day of May, 2025.
READ A THIRD TIME this 12th day of May, 2025.
FINAL ADOPTION and the Seal of the Corporation affixed this 23rd day of June,
2025.
AYOR
:ORPORAT^
CORPORATE OFFICER
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SCHEDULE"A"
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Development Cost Charges Bylaw No. 5411, 2025
DEFINITIONS
In this Bylaw, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Apartment" means a building used for three or more Dwelling Units, and includes
such a building subdivided under the Strata Property Act; excludes Townhouse,
Multiplex Residential, Fourplex Residential and Triplex Residential.
"Approving Officer" means an Approving Officer as defined in the Land Title Act.
"Building Bylaw" means the City of Coquitlam Building Bylaw No. 3598, 2003, as
amended or replaced from time to time.
"Building Permit" means any permit required by the Building Bylaw that
authorizes the construction, alteration or extension of a building or structure.
"Building Permit Application" means an application for Building Permit that is
submitted and accepted by the City as a legitimate application, that includes a
completed application form, submission of all required items identified on the
applicable building permit application checklist, and payment of all applicable
application fees.
"Bylaw" means this Bylaw and any subsequent amendments hereto.
"Carriage House" means an accessory Dwelling Unit located primarily above a
detached accessory off-street parking structure that is subordinate to the
principal building in terms of size, scale and massing, with a separate entrance
directly from the exterior and all floor area at or above finished grade elevation.
"City" means the City of Coquitlam.
'Commercial" means a use providing for the sale or rental of goods or services,
personal services, or the servicing and repair of goods and includes:
(a)
entertainment and recreation, commercial recreation (as defined in the
Zoning Bylaw] or extensive recreation (as defined in the Zoning Bylaw)
facilities;
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(b)
commercial schools, including, without limitation, facilities which include
instruction in the arts, sports, business, self-improvement, academics and
trades;
(c)
service stations;
(d) tourist accommodations and facilities;
(e)
adult or child day-care centres;
(f)
Sleeping Units;
(g) community care (as defined in the Zoning Bylaw} and congregate housing
and care (as defined in the Zoning Bylaw);
(h) any use permitted as a commercial use in the Zoning Bylaw;
(i)
uses ancillary to any commercial use in the Zoning Bylaw located on the same
Parcel that serves or enhances the commercial use.
"DCC' means Transportation DCC, Parkland Acquisition DCC, Park Improvement DCC,
Drainage DCC, Sanitary Sewer DCC, Water DCC, Fire DCC and Police DCC.
"Development" includes a Subdivision and a proposed Subdivision, and the
construction, alteration or extension and the proposed construction, alteration or
extension of a building or structure for which a Building Permit is or will be
required.
"Drainage DCC' means development cost charges imposed in Schedule "B" of this
Bylaw for the purposes of providing, constructing, altering or expanding drainage
facilities.
"Duplex Residential" includes:
(a) any Parcel resulting from any Subdivision which is used or may be used for a
single building or structure containing two Dwelling Units, neither of which is
a Secondary Suite, Carriage House or Garden Cottage; and
(b) any Dwelling Unit which is or will be situated in a single building or structure
containing two Dwelling Units, neither of which is a Secondary Suite, Carriage
House or Garden Cottage, that is constructed, altered or extended on a single
Parcel.
"Dwelling Unit" means one or more rooms which comprise a self-contained unit
with a separate entrance, used or intended to be used as a domicile by one or
more persons and usually containing living, sleeping and sanitary facilities, and
containing or providing for the installation of only one set of cooking facilities.
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"Effective Date" means the date this Bylaw is adopted by Council.
"Fourplex Residential" means a residential use in which a principal building is
used for four principal Dwelling Units.
"Fire DCC' means development cost charges imposed in Schedule "B" of this Bylaw
for the purposes of providing, constructing, altering or expanding fire protection
facilities.
"Garden Cottage" means an accessory residential use in a single-storey building
on a lot that is detached from the principal building and is subordinate to the
principal building in terms of size, scale and massing.
"General Managed means the General Manager Planning and Development, or
designate.
"Gross Floor Area" means gross floor area as defined in the Zoning Bylaw.
"Industrial" means a use providing for the manufacturing, processing,
fabricating, assembling, storing, transporting, distributing, wholesaling, testing,
servicing, repairing, wrecking, recycling, or salvaging of goods, materials or
things for direct use or resale to individual business customers, and not for the
general public and includes medical marijuana grow operations.
"Institutional" means a use providing for public functions including:
(a)
government offices;
(b) schools, and colleges and universities operated by duly incorporated federal
or provincial societies exclusively as non-profit, charitable organizations;
(c)
hospitals;
(d)
community centres;
(e)
courts, police stations and jails;
(f)
libraries and museums; and
(g)
buildings associated with public parks, public playgrounds, cemeteries and
works yards.
"In-stream" means an application submitted and accepted by the City as a
legitimate application and all applicable application fees have been paid, and
where the application has not been determined or rejected by the City or
withdrawn by the applicant.
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"Land Title Act" means the Land Title Act, R. S. B.C. 1996, c.250, as amended.
"Minister" means the Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs for the Province
of British Columbia.
"Mobile Home Residential" means a manufactured unit, intended to be occupied
in a place other than at its manufacturer, and designed as a Dwelling Unit.
"Multiplex Residential" means a residential use that includes three or more
principal Dwelling Units on a lot in attached, detached or semi-detached forms;
excludes Apo/tment, Townhouse, Fourplex Residential and Triplex Residential.
"Parcel" means any lot, block or other area in which land is held or into which it is
subdivided and for greater certainty, without limiting the foregoing, includes a
strata lot under the Strata Property Act.
"Parkland Acquisition DCC' means development cost charges imposed in
Schedule "B" of this Bylaw for the purposes of acquiring park land or reclaiming
land as park land.
"Park Improvement DCC' means development cost charges imposed in Schedule
"B" of this Bylaw for the purposes of providing park land improvements.
"Police DCC' means development cost charges imposed in Schedule "B" of this
Bylaw for the purposes of providing, constructing, altering or expanding police
facilities.
"Precursor Application" means:
(a) an application for the issuance of a development permit:
(i) submitted and accepted by the City as a legitimate application, that
includes a completed application form, submission of all required
items identified on the development permit application checklist,
and payment of all applicable application fees; and,
(ii) the Development authorized by the Building Permit is entirely within
the area of land that was the subject of the development permit
application; or
(b) an application for an amendment to the Zoning Bylaw:
(i) submitted and accepted by the City as a legitimate application, that
includes a completed application form, submission of all required
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items identified on the rezoning application checklist, and payment
of all applicable application fees; and
(ii) the Development authorized by the Building Permit is entirely within
the area of land that was the subject of the Zoning Bylaw
amendment application.
"Sanitary Sewer DCC' means development cost charges imposed in Schedule "B"
of this Bylaw for the purposes of providing, constructing, altering or expanding
sanitary sewer facilities.
"Secondary Suite" means an accessory residential Dwelling L/n/f within a building
of residential occupancy containing only one principal Dwelling Unit.
"Single-detached Residential Use" includes:
(a) any Parcel resulting from any Subdivision which is used or may be used for a
single building or structure containing one Dwelling Unit; and
(b) any Dwelling Unit which is or will be situated in a single building or structure
containing one Dwelling Unit and no other principal uses, and which may
include a Secondary Suite, Carriage House, or Garden Cottage that is
constructed, altered or extended on a single Parcel.
"Sleeping Units" means one or more rooms that do not contain cooking facilities,
used for the lodging of persons.
"Strata Property Act" means the Strata Property Act, S. B.C. 1998, c. 43, as
amended.
"Street-Oriented Village Home" means a residential use consisting of one Dwelling
Unit per principal building vertically attached by party walls to one or more
principal building/s with each individual principal building located on a separate
lot (including a strata lot).
"Subdivision" means the division of land into two or more Parcels, whether by
plan, appropriate descriptive words or otherwise, under the Land Title Act or the
Strata Property Act.
"Subdivision Application" means and application for Subdivision, submitted and
accepted by the City as a legitimate application, which includes a completed
Subdivision application form, submission of all required items identified on the
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Subdivision Application checklist of the application form, and payment of all
applicable application fees.
"Townhouse" means a single building containing three or more Dwelling Units
separated one from another by party walls extending from the foundation to roof,
with each Dwelling Unit having a separate, direct entrance from grade and
includes all row, linked, patio, garden, court or other housing which meets such
criteria; excludes Multiplex Residential, Fourplex Residential or Tr/p/ex Residential.
"Transportation DCC' means development cost charges imposed in Schedule "B"
of this Bylaw for the purposes of providing, constructing, altering or expanding
highway facilities.
"Triplex Residential" means a residential use in which a principal building is used
for three principal Dwelling Units.
"Water DCC' means development cost charges imposed in Schedule "B" of this
Bylaw for the purposes of providing, constructing, altering or expanding water
facilities.
"Zoning Bylaw" means the City of Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996, as
amended or replaced from time to time.
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Description of Use
Transportation
DCC
Parkland
Acquisition
DCC
Park
Improvement
DCC
Drainage
DCC
Sanitary Sewer
DCC
Water
DCC
Fire
DCC
Police
DCC
Total
DCC
Single-detached Residential
$16,778
per Dwelling Unit
$23,209
per Dwelling Unit
$11,133
per Dwelling Unit
$4,810
per Dwelling Unit
$2,333
per Dwelling Unit
$1,845
per Dwelling Unit
$3,858
per Dwelling Unit
$430
per Dwelling Unit
$64,396
per Dwelling Unit
Duplex Residential, Triplex
Residential, Fourplex
Residential or Multiplex
Residential
$13,370
$14,762
$7,081
$2,886
$1,484
$1,173
$2,454
$273
$43,483
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
Street-Oriented Village Home
and Townhouse
$8,913
$14,497
$6,954
$2,886
$1,457
$1,152
$2,410
$268
$38,537
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
Apartment and Mobile Home
Residential
$4,850
$9,836
$4,718
$1,443
$989
$782
$1,635
$182
$24,435
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
per Dwelling Unit
Commercial
$100
$0
$0
$14
$5
$4
$7
$1
$131
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
Unit
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
Unit
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
Unit
per square metre of
Gross Floor Area
Industrial
$52
$0
$0
$12
$3
$2
$4
$0
$73
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre of
Gross Floor Area
Institutional
$100
$0
$0
$14
$5
$4
$8
$1
$132
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre
of Gross Floor Area
per square metre of
Gross Floor Area