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DISTRICT OF LAKE COUNTRY
BYLAW 950, 2016
CONSOLIDATED VERSION
(Includes amendment as of March 18, 2025)
This is a consolidated copy to be used for convenience only. Users are asked to refer to the
Development Cost Charge Bylaw as amended from time to time to verify accuracy and completeness.
Amending Bylaw
Summary of Amendments
Adoption
1140
Delete and replace Schedule A
June 15, 2021
1233
Add definitions to subsection 1.2
Delete and replace definition of Single Detached
- Residential
Amend subsections 3.1(b) and 3.2
Delete and replace subsection 4.2 in its entirety
Delete and replace Schedule A, Schedule B, and
Schedule C.
March 18, 2025
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DISTRICT OF LAKE COUNTRY
BYLAW 950
A BYLAW TO IMPOSE DEVELOPMENT COST CHARGES
THE Council of the District of Lake Country, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 For the purpose of this bylaw, the definitions of words and phrases that are not included in
this section shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Local Government Act or the
Community Charter, as the case may be.
1.2 In this bylaw:
added by Bylaw 1233, 2024
"Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)" means an additional residential structure containing Dwelling Units
separate from the principal dwelling. Examples include but are not limited to coach houses, garden
suites, and accessory garage suites but does not include a Secondary Suite.
"Building Permit" means any permit required by the District that authorizes the construction, alteration
or extension of a building or structure.
"Commercial" means a commercial development in a commercial zone used or intended to be used for
the carrying on of any business, including an occupation, employment or enterprise that is carried on for
gain or monetary profit by any person.
"Construction" includes building, erection, installation, repair, alteration, addition, enlargement,
moving, locating, relocating, reconstruction, demolition, removal, excavation, or shoring.
"Development" means the construction, alteration, or extension of buildings and/or structures for
any use authorized by the Zoning Bylaw that requires the issuance of a building permit, but does
not include internal alterations of a building and/or structure where the principal use of the building
and/or structure, or part thereof, is not changing.
"District" means the municipal corporation of the District of Lake Country or the area within the
municipal boundaries as the context may require.
"Dwelling Unit" means accommodation providing sleeping rooms, washrooms and a kitchen intended
for domestic use, and used, or intended to be used, permanently for a household. This use does not
include a room in a hotel or a motel, and does not include recreational vehicles.
"Industrial" means an industrial development in a zone listed in the Zoning Bylaw, or a similar
development in another zone permitted in accordance with the Zoning Bylaw, in which the
predominant use, as determined by its general purpose and list of permitted uses, is of an industrial
nature. It includes all industrial uses and agricultural uses such as greenhouses, mushroom farms,
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agricultural dwellings, retail nurseries, and manufacturing & processing plants for agriculture-related
products and commercial businesses.
"Institutional" means development of a public or institutional nature in an institutional zone listed in
the Zoning Bylaw.
"Lot" means the smallest unit into which land is subdivided as shown on the records of the Land Title
Office.
"Multi-family Residential" means housing on a single lot other than a strata lot that contains three or
more dwelling units.
"Mobile Home" means a transportable single-family residential dwelling unit meeting minimum
Canadian Standards Association Z-240, suitable for long-term occupancy, and designed to be
transported on wheels.
"Modular Home" means a factory-built single-family residential dwelling unit meeting Canadian
Standards Association 277M, suitable for long-term occupancy, and designed to be placed on a
permanent foundation.
"Residential" means any residential development in all zones where residential development is
permitted in accordance with the Zoning Bylaw.
added by Bylaw 1233, 2024
"Secondary Suite" means a self-contained dwelling unit located within a single-family dwelling unit. For
the purposes of this bylaw, a Secondary Suite located within a principal dwelling is not considered a
separate or Accessory Dwelling Unit and has been accounted for in the development cost charge
calculation.
"Sector" means a prescribed geographical portion or area of the municipality within which a
development cost charge is levied.
"Structure" means any construction fixed to, supported by or sunk into land or water, excluding
asphalt or concrete paving or similar surfacing of a lot.
deleted and replaced by Bylaw 1233, 2024
"Single Detached - Residential" means housing on a single titled lot that contains one single family
dwelling unit including mobile or modular homes and a Secondary Suite.
"Subdivision" means a subdivision as defined in the Land Title Act or Strata Property Act.
"Zone" means the zones identified and defined in the District of Lake Country Zoning Bylaw as
applicable.
"Zoning Bylaw" means the District of Lake Country Zoning Bylaw in effect at the time of application of
this bylaw.
2. DEVELOPMENT COST CHARGES
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2.1 Those Development Cost Charges set out in Schedule "A" attached hereto and forming part of
this bylaw, are hereby imposed on every person who:
(a)
obtains approval of a subdivision;
(b)
obtains a building permit authorizing the construction, alteration or extension of a building
or structure; or
(c)
obtains a building permit authorizing the construction, alteration or extension of a building
that will, after the construction, alteration or extension, contain fewer than four (4) self-
contained dwelling units and be put to no other use than the residential use in those
dwelling units;
as outlined in Schedule "A".
3. EXEMPTIONS
subsection 3.1(b) amended by Bylaw 1233, 2024
3.1 A development cost charge is not payable if any of the following applies in relation to a development
authorized by a Building Permit:
(a) the permit authorizes the construction, alteration or extension of a building set apart for public
worship or part of such a building that is, or will be, after the construction, alteration or
extension, exempt from taxation under the Community Charter;
(b) the value of the work authorized by the permit does not exceed $100,000 ;
(c) the square footage of the Dwelling Unit is no larger than 29m2.
amended by Bylaw 1233, 2024
3.2 A development is not exempt from payment of the applicable development cost charges if the
application for development which might otherwise qualify under section 3.1(b) above relates to a
single site for which, if more fully developed, the total value of the work possible would exceed
$100,000.
4. CALCULATION OF APPLICABLE CHARGES
4.1 The amount of development cost charges payable in relation to a particular application shall
be calculated using the applicable charges set out in Schedule "A" and applicable number of
development units.
deleted and replaced by Bylaw 1233, 2024
4.2 Development cost charge rates are paid by:
(a) All development within the District of Lake Country shall pay mobility and parks
development cost charges;
(b) All development within the Drainage DCC Sector boundary as shown on Schedule B of this
bylaw, shall pay drainage development cost charges;
(c) All development connected to a community sewer system shall pay sewer development cost
charges;
(d) All development located within the areas established by:
a. Lake Country Water Service Area Bylaw 695, 2008,
b. Coral Beach Water System Specified Area Establishment Bylaw 076, 1996, and
c. Lake Pine Local Service Area Establishment Bylaw 736, 2010
shall pay water development cost charges.
4.3 Where a type of development is not identified on Schedule "A" the amount of development
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cost charges to be paid to the District shall be equal to the development cost charges that would
have been payable for the most comparable type of development.
4.4 The amount of development cost charges payable in relation to a mixed-use type of development
shall be calculated separately for each portion of the development, according to the separate
use types, which are included in the building permit application and shall be the sum of the charges
payable for each type.
5. REPEAL
District of Lake Country Development Cost Charge Bylaw 499, 2004 and its amendments are hereby
repealed.
6. CITATION
This bylaw may be cited as Development Cost Charge Bylaw 950, 2016.
READ A FIRST TIME this 19th day of April, 2016.
READ A SECOND TIME this 19th day of April, 2016.
READ A THIRD TIME this 19th day of April, 2016.
Certified correct at 3rd reading
Original signed by Reyna Seabrook
Corporate Officer
Approved by the Inspector of Municipalities the 30th day of August, 2016.
Original signed by Liam Edwards
Deputy Inspector of Municipalities
ADOPTED this 6th day of September, 2016.
Original signed by James Baker
Original signed by Reyna Seabrook
Mayor
Corporate Officer
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Schedule A deleted and replaced by Bylaw 1233, 2024
SCHEDULE A
Municipal-Wide DCCs
Land Use
Category
Collection Basis
Mobility
Water
Sewer
Drainage
Parks
Total
Single Detached
Residential
Per Lot
$10,252
$11,953
$11,862
$389
$12,790
$47,246
Multi-Family
Residential
Per Unit
$6,664
$7,770
$7,710
$253
$12,790
$35,187
Accessory
Dwelling Unit
Per Unit
$3,332
$3,885
$3,855
$127
$0
$11,199
Commercial
Per Gross Floor
Area in m2
$34.45
$40.16
$39.86
$1.31
$22.24
$138.02
Industrial
Per Gross Floor
Area in m2
$34.45
$40.16
$39.86
$1.31
$14.48
$130.26
Institutional
Per Gross Floor
Area in m2
$34.45
$40.16
$39.86
$1.31
$22.24
$138.02
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Schedule B deleted and replaced by Bylaw 1233, 2024
SCHEDULE B
Drainage DCC Sector
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Schedule C deleted and replaced by Bylaw 1233, 2024
SCHEDULE C
Lake Country Business Park
Area-Specific DCCs
1. All development in the subject area identified above shall pay the Area-Specific development cost
charges for mobility, water and sewer as noted in the table above, in addition to the Municipal-Wide
development cost charges identified in Schedule A.
2. Development cost charges are payable based on land use category. Where the land use category is
not specified, then no area-specific DCCs are levied for development in that land use category, but
the municipal-wide DCCs identified in Schedule A are still payable.
Land Use
Category
Collection
Basis
Mobility
Water
Sewer
Drainage
Parks
Total
Commercial
Per Gross Floor
Area in m2
$45.50
$14.16
$7.41
$0
$0
$67.07
Industrial
Per Gross Floor
Area in m2
$45.50
$14.16
$7.41
$0
$0
$67.07