1781 DCC Reduction for Downtown Specified Area Bylaw — full text

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## TOWN OF LADYSMITH ## BYLAW NO. 1781 ## A Bylaw to Reduce Development Cost Charges for Developments With Low Environmental Impact in the Downtown Specified Area of the Town of Ladysmith. WHEREAS Council is permitted by Section 933.1 of the Local Government Act to waive or reduce a development cost charge by bylaw for a development that is designed to result in a low environmental impact; AND WHEREAS Council recognizes that development within the Ladysmith downtown specified area is designed to result in a low environmental impact due in part to existing infrastructure, availability of and proximity to services, walkability of the downtown and reduced vehicle usage, and the associated reductions in greenhouse gas emissions; NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Town of Ladysmith in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows: ## TITLE 1. This bylaw may be cited as "Town of Ladysmith Downtown Development Cost Charges Reduction Bylaw, 2011, No. 1781" ## ELIGIBLE DEVELOPMENT 2. For the purposes of this Bylaw, any development that occurs within the Downtown Specified Area, which encompasses the lands shown within a heavy outline on Schedule A attached to and forming part of this Bylaw, is designed to result in a low environmental impact, and constitutes a class of eligible development for that purpose. ## REDUCTION 3. The class of eligible development described in Section 2 will have the applicable Town of Ladysmith development cost charge amount payable reduced by 100%. ## SCHEDULE 4. Schedule A - Downtown Specified Area is attached to and forms part of this Bylaw. ## SEVERABILITY 5. If any part, paragraph or phrase in this Bylaw is for any reason held to be invalid by the decision of a court of competent jurisdiction, that portion shall be severed and the remainder of this bylaw shall continue in force. | READ A FIRST TIME on the | 4th | day of | October, | 2011 | |----------------------------|-------|----------|------------|--------| | READ A SECOND TIME on the | 4th | day of | October, | 2011 | | READ A THIRD TIME on the | | day of | October, | 2011 | | ADOPTED on the | 17th | day of | October, | 2011 |    Mayor (R. Hutchins) SBuda Corporate Officer (S. Bowden) ## SCHEDULE A - DOWNTOWN SPECIFIED AREA