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DISTRICT OF LANTZVILLE
BYLAW NO. 422, 2025
A BYLAW TO IMPOSE DEVELOPMENT COST CHARGES
WHEREAS the Local Government Act, section 559 authorizes Council to enact a bylaw to
impose development cost charges for the purpose of providing funds to assist the District in
paying the capital costs of providing, constructing, altering or expanding sewage, water, drainage
and highway facilities, other than off-street parking facilities, and providing and improving
parkland to service, directly or indirectly and fire protection facilities developments for which the
charges are imposed;
AND WHEREAS in establishing the development cost charges under this Bylaw, Council has
considered future land use patterns and development; the phasing of works and services; the
provision of park land described in the District's Official Community Plan; and how development
designed to result in a low environmental impact may affect the capital costs of the infrastructure
services for which the charges are imposed;
AND WHEREAS Council considers that the development cost charges imposed under this
Bylaw are not excessive in relation to the capital cost of prevailing standards of service in the
District; and will not deter development, discourage the construction of reasonably priced
housing or the provision of reasonably priced serviced land, or discourage development designed
to result in a low environmental impact;
NOW THEREFORE the Municipal Council of the District of Lantzville in open meeting
assembled enacts as follows:
Interpretation
1.1
In this Bylaw,
"building permit" means a permit issued by a building official for the District authorizing
the construction, alteration, or extension of a building or other structure;
"Carriage House" means a secondary dwelling unit located in a secondary building; the
maximum gross floor area and other terms and conditions for a "Carriage House" is defined
in the current Zoning Bylaw.
"Commercial Use" means any use of land or buildings for retail, hotel, tourist and resort
accommodation, office, personal or professional services, restaurant, recreation or
entertainment and other uses engaged for commercial purposes, but does not include home-
based business as accessory to residential use or a Congregate Care, Industrial or
Institutional use as defined in this Bylaw;
"Congregate Care Use" means a building or other structure that is used or intended for
use as
(a)
an assisted living residence, as defined by the Community Care and Assisted Living
Act;
(b)
a community care facility with four or more sleeping units that provide residential
accommodations to adults in addition to other services prescribed by the Community
Care and Assisted Living Regulation;
and includes, but is not limited to, assisted living facilities, long-term care and nursing
homes;
"dwelling unit" means a habitable self-contained unit with cooking, sleeping and sanitary
facilities and a separate entrance that is used or intended to be used for a private residence,
but does not include a Mobile Home, recreational vehicle or tent;
"District" means the District of Lantzville;
"gross floor area" means the gross floor area of a building or other structure calculated
to the outside of the exterior walls, including floor areas over 1.8 metres in height, canopies
with an occupancy or use, and parking structures as the principal use, but does not include
stairwell and elevators exceeding one floor only, gas canopies, or the parking portions of a
structure;
"Industrial" means any industrial use of land or buildings, including but not limited to
uses of and related to co-generation, manufacturing, processing, assembling, fabricating,
servicing, testing, repair, storing, transporting, warehousing; the distribution of goods,
materials or things, wholesaling by distributing merchandise from the lot where it is sold,
and accessory offices.
"Institutional" means the use of land or a building or other structure for a school, college,
child care, hospital, library, museum, cemetery, crematorium, mausoleum, civic assembly,
marina, jail or correctional facility, and similar purposes but does not include a Congregate
Care Use;
"Mixed Use Building" means a building that contains one or more dwelling units in
conjunction with any one or combination of Commercial, Institutional or Industrial use;
"Mobile Home" means a dwelling unit designed to be moved from time to time, which
arrives at the site where it is to be occupied complete and ready for occupancy except for
placing on foundation supports, connection of utilities, and some incidental assembly, and
meets or exceeds Canadian Standards Association, Z-240 Standards, but excludes a
recreational vehicle;
"Mobile Home Park" means an unsubdivided parcel of land, and not subdivided
pursuant to the Strata Property Act, on which are situated three or more Mobile Homes for
the purpose of providing residential accommodation, but excludes a hotel;
"Multiple Family Residential" means the use of land for a building consisting of two or
more dwelling units, including for a Mobile Home Park, but does not include a Single
Family Residential building with a secondary suite or a Congregate Care or Institutional
use; A Carriage House is considered as a separate single-family dwelling.
"residential subdivision" means a subdivision of land under the Land Title Act or under
the Strata Property Act that creates parcels to be used for residential purposes, and includes
a Mobile Home Park subdivision, but does not include a Multiple Family Residential
building;
"Single Family Residential" means the residential use of a lot that contains one building
for a single dwelling unit, but which may include a secondary suite;
1.2
Except as otherwise provided herein, this Bylaw is to be interpreted consistently with the
Local Government Act and with the District's Zoning Bylaw. A reference to a statute,
regulation, bylaw or other enactment refers to that enactment as amended or replaced from
time to time.
1.3
If any section, subsection, paragraph or phrase of this Bylaw is for any reason held to be
invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, that portion shall be severed and the remainder
of this Bylaw shall continue to be valid and effective.
Development Cost Charges
2.1
Subject to sections 3 and 5, every person who obtains
(a)
approval of a residential subdivision, or
(b)
a building permit,
must pay to the District the applicable development cost charges in the amounts set out in
Schedule A.
2.2
Without limiting the generality of section 2, a building permit includes a permit authorizing
the construction, alteration or extension of a building that will, after the construction,
alteration or extension, contain fewer than four self-contained dwelling units that are only
for a residential use and put to no other use than a residential use in those dwelling units.
Exceptions
3.1
A development cost charge is not payable:
(a)
for work authorized under a building permit that is valued at less than $100,000; or
(b)
for renovations to an existing dwelling - regardless of the construction cost; or
(c)
where the imposition of such charge is prohibited by statute.
Time of Payment
4.1
Subject to the Local Government Act sections 511 and 568, as applicable, development cost
charges under this Bylaw are assessed and payable at the following times:
(a)
in the case of a residential subdivision, at the time the application for subdivision is
complete on its face and submitted, along with applicable fees, in a form acceptable to
the approving officer for the District for processing approval;
(b)
in other circumstances, at the time a building permit is issued,
but may be paid by way of instalments in accordance with the Development Cost Charge
(Instalments) Regulation, B.C. Reg. 166/84.
Calculation of Charges
5.1
Development cost charges under this Bylaw are calculated in accordance with Schedule A
and are based on the actual use or combination of uses of the building, Whether the
development is located within a designated Special Water DCC Area, and not the zoning
category of the property, subject to the following:
(a)
where there is more than one use, each use is subject to the development cost charge
based on the actual use, and more than one development cost charge category may be
applied per building.
(b)
mezzanines, storage or similar areas within a building are subject to development cost
charges based on the same use as that of the majority area of the building;
(c)
where a building is vacant and its future use cannot be determined, development cost
charges are determined by the zoning category for the land upon which the building
is situated.
(d)
If the development is situated within the Area-Specific Water DCC zones for the
Winds (Water Projects W-3 and W-4) or Clark Drive (Water Projects W-5 and W-6),
as identified in Figures 1 and 2 on Schedule B, the corresponding water DCC charges
outlined in Schedule A - Development Cost Charges Rates will apply to the
development.
(e)
Development Cost Charges (DCCs) are separately applicable to a "Carriage House"
and will be calculated and applied as an additional single-family dwelling. This applies
regardless of whether DCCs for the primary building(s) are paid at the subdivision
stage or at the building permit stage and whether the primary buildings(s) and the
carriage house are built at the same time or the carriage house is added after.
(f)
If converting an existing structure or accessory building into a Carriage House, and
the original building permit for the existing structure was issued less than 5 years ago,
Development Cost Charges (DCCs) will still apply if the new construction cost for
conversion exceeds $15,000.
In-Stream Protection
6.1 "In-Stream Protection" is a legislated safeguard under the Local Government Act that
prevents new DCC rates from applying to certain applications already in process when the
bylaw is adopted:
-
Subdivision Applications (Section 511- Local Government Act):
Subdivision applications submitted with the applicable fee before bylaw adoption are
protected for 12 months from the date of the proposed DCC rates, unless the applicant agrees
in writing to the new rates.
-
Building Permits and Related Applications (Section 568- Local Government
Act):
If a building permit is issued within 12 months of bylaw adoption, and a precursor application
(e.g., rezoning or development permit) was in process on the date of adoption, the application
is protected from the new DCC rates--unless the applicant agrees otherwise.
To be considered as an Instream application the application must be accepted for processing
by the designated local government officer and the applicable fee must have been paid.
If the original application is denied or not fully approved within the one-year exemption
period or if the conditional approval becomes invalid within this timeframe, new DCC rates
will be applicable, whether it is a building permit or subdivision application.
Credits, Rebates, and Latecomer Agreements
7.1 Credits, rebate and latecomer agreements are outlined as below:
-
DCC Credits
If a developer required trunk infrastructure ahead of the district's planned schedule (i.e., "out-
of-sequence" development), the cost of those works may be credited against the DCCs payable,
up to the total DCC amount. Credits are reviewed per development phase and the DCC credit
cannot exceed the amount of DCC payable.
When doing redevelopments and expansion of existing land use, credit is calculated based on
current DCC rates for the existing uses and reduced from the total DCCs owing on the new
proposed development.
-
DCC Rebates
When infrastructure is oversized to support development beyond the local service area, the
District may provide a DCC rebate for the incremental oversizing cost. The rebate cannot
exceed the DCC payable and is assessed per phase of the development.
-
Latecomer Agreements
If trunk infrastructure built by a developer benefits other properties and is not included in the
DCC program, a Latecomer Agreement may be established under the Local Government Act.
The developer is responsible for initiating and funding the agreement, which is then
administered by the District.
Refunds
Development Cost Charges (DCCs) are collected and deposited into reserves and are non-
refundable and not retroactive if DCC rates are later amended.
Schedules
8.
The following Schedules are attached to and form part of this Bylaw:
Schedule A - Development Cost Charge Rates
Schedule B - Winds and Clark Area Specific DCCs
Citation
9.
This Bylaw may be cited as the "District of Lantzville Development Cost Charges Bylaw No.
422, 2025.
READ A FIRST TIME this day of , 2026.
READ A SECOND TIME this day of , 2026.
PUBLIC HEARING HELD this day of , 2026.
READ A THIRD TIME this day of , 2026.
ADOPTED this day of , 2026.
Mark Swain, Mayor
Delcy Wells, Director of Corporate Administration
"Schedule A to Bylaw 422, 2025"
Water $
CATEGORY
OF LAND USE
Municipal
Wide
Winds add
on
Clark
add
on
SEWAGE$
DRAINAGE$
HIGHWAY
FACILITIES$
PARK LAND$
Fire protection$
Total$
Municipal
Wide
17,639
Winds
23,700
1.SINGLE
FAMILY
RESIDENTIAL
Per lot created at subdivision
or
Per dwelling unit constructed
2,641
6,061
19,114
4,095
3,456
2,889
1,298
3,260
Clark
36,753
Municipal
Wide
14,253
Winds
19,641
2.MULTIPLE
FAMILY
RESIDENTIAL
Per dwelling unit
2,347
5,388
16,990
3,640
2,451
1,763
1,154
2,898
Clark
31,243
Municipal
Wide
5,558
Winds
8,057
3.CONGREGATE CARE
Per sleeping unit
1,076
2,469
7,787
1,668
374
613
529
1,328
Clark
13,375
Municipal
Wide
139.10
Winds
145
4.COMMERCIAL
Per square metre of
gross floor area
authorized by building
permit
5.90
5.90
42.50
9.10
8.60
108.30
N/A
7.20
Clark
181.60
Municipal
Wide
93.80
Winds
116.20
5.INSTITUTIONAL
Per square metre of
gross floor area
authorized by building
permit
9.80
22.40
70.80
15.20
6.30
50.40
N/A
12.10
Clark
164.60
Municipal
Wide
133,060
Winds
155.51
6.INDUSTRIAL
Per hectare of gross site
area
authorized
by
building permit
(1ha=10000m2)
9,780
22,450
70,792
15,166
57,592
38,449
N/A
12,073
Clark
203.852
"Schedule B to Bylaw 422, 2025"
Figure 1 Winds Area Specific Water DCC
Figure 2 Clark Specific Water DCC