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Development
Cost Charges
Bylaw
# 5233
THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF VERNON
BYLAW NUMBER 5233
AMENDMENTS
BYLAW ADOPTION AMENDMENT
NO.
5402 February 12, 2013 » Remove and replace definition for "dwelling
unit" to revise the definition to clarify that
Development Cost Charges are not to be
levied for residential dwelling units with a
gross floor area of 29m? or less, and that
such a levy exemption would apply whether
or not all dwelling units in a building have a
gross floor area of 29m? or greater, as
permitted by S.933 (4.01) (1) (a) of the Local
Government Act
» Remove and replace Section 6, "Manner of
Calculation" to revise the manner of
calculating development cost charges to
clarify that charges are only levied against
the additional dwelling units when an existing
residential building or property' is
redeveloped
May 11, 2020 « Update Development Cost Charges for Core
5783 Area (Development Districts 1 and 2) and
Outer Area (Development District 3)
July 15, 2024 » Remove Schedules 'A' and 'B' --
5988 Development Cost Charges -- Core Area and
Outer Area and replace with new Schedules
'A' and 'B' for Development Districts 1, 2 and
3 for year 2024
THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF VERNON
BYLAW NUMBER 5233
A Bylaw to Impose Development Cost Charges
WHEREAS under the Local Government Act, the City may impose development cost
charges for the purpose of providing funds to assist the City to pay capital costs of
providing, constructing, altering or expanding sewage, drainage and highway facilities to
service, directly or indirectly, the development for which the charge is being imposed;
AND WHEREAS in setting the development cost charges under this bylaw, the City has
considered the matters referred to in section 934 of the Local Government Act and has
determined that the development cost charges:
(a) are not excessive in relation to the prevailing standards of service in the
City;
(6) ~-- will not deter development in the City;
(c) -- will not discourage the construction of reasonably priced housing or the
provision of reasonably priced serviced land in the City; and
(d) -- will not discourage development designed to result in a low environmental
impact;
NOW THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Vernon, in open meeting assembled,
hereby enacts as follows:
Citation:
1. This bylaw may be cited for all purposes as "City of Vernon Development Cost
Charges Bylaw No. 5233, 2009".
Repeal:
2. City of Vernon Development Cost Charges Bylaw Number 3769, 1991, and all
amendments therefore, be hereby repealed.
Definitions:
3. In this bylaw;
"City" means The Corporation of the City of Vernon;
"Congregate Care Facility" means a facility providing and operating a common
central kitchen and dining room capable of seating all congregate care unit
residents at one sitting, and the facility must contain care service (medical
assistance) areas, recreation areas and amenity areas typical of a congregate
care facility. Each congregate unit must be equipped with an apparatus
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designed to alert facility staff of emergency situations (i.e. resident activated
medical alarms);
"Core Area" means lands in the City of Vernon designated as Development
District 1 or 2 in the Official Community Plan;
"Dwelling Unit" means one or more habitable rooms used or intended to be
used for living and sleeping purposes for no more than one family, have a
separate entrance and containing a kitchen and bathroom, including tourist
accommodation units whose occupancy by any tourist or tourist party is required
by any City bylaw to be for seven (7) or more days in duration, and includes, in
the case of units that are not tourist accommodation units, only those units
having a floor area greater than 29m? measured to the inner surface of the walls
forming the outer perimeter of the unit; (Bylaw 5402)
"Gross Floor Area" means the sum of the floor areas of each storey in a
building measured between the exterior walls of the building, including unfinished
areas such as basements but excluding residential parking garages;
"Highway/Large Format Commercial" means a_ single-format retail or
warehouse sales outlet with a gross floor area exceeding 5,000 square metres,
or a combination of retail units in a shopping mall format where the primary
means of access is by automobile traffic;
"Industrial" means a development of an industrial nature;
"Institutional" means any of the following:
(a) -- public or private schools;
(6) -- public colleges and universities and non-profit colleges;
(c) public and private hospitals;
(d) | congregate care facilities;
(e) private recreation facilities;
"Low Income Housing" means property owned, developed or operated by a
non-profit society, Government of Canada, Province of British Columbia or the
local government as rental units for persons living in the North Okanagan, where
the income of such persons falls beneath the low income cut-off amounts
published by Statistics Canada from time to time, or as otherwise determined or
agreed to by the local government, and where a Housing Agreement and
restrictive covenant are registered on title;
"Multiple Unit Housing" means a building containing more than one dwelling
unit;
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"Office/Commercial" means a building used for commercial or business
purposes other than highway/large format commercial purposes;
"Official Community Plan" means City of Vernon currently adopted Official
Community Plan as amended from time to time;
"Outer Area" means lands in the City of Vernon designated as Development
District 3 in the Official Community Plan;
"Parcel" means any lot, block or other area in which land is held, or into which
land is subdivided, including a bare land strata parcel, but does not include a
highway;
"Secondary Suite" means a secondary suite permitted under the current Zoning
Bylaw in, or in connection with, a single detached housing building;
"Single Detached Housing" means a detached building containing only one
dwelling unit or containing one dwelling unit and a permitted secondary suite;
"Unit Floor Area" means the sum of the floor areas of each individual multiple
unit housing unit, and includes the interior stairs and hallways within each unit,
but does not include common stairs or hallways, elevators, and other common
areas within an apartment complex;
"Used" means used or intended to be used; and
"Zoning Bylaw" means the currently adopted City of Vernon Zoning Bylaw, as
amended from time to time.
Imposition of Charges (Core Area)
4. Subject to the exceptions set out in the Local Government Act, every person who
obtains
(a) approval of a subdivision of land under the Land Title Act or the Strata
Property Act in the Core Area, or
(6) a building permit authorizing the construction, alteration or extension of a
building or structure in the Core Area
shall pay to the City development cost charges calculated in accordance with
Schedule "A".
Imposition of Charges (Outer Area)
5. Subject to the exceptions set out in the Local Government Act, every person who
obtains
(a) approval of a subdivision of land under the Land Title Act or Strata
Property Act in the Outer Area, or
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(6) a building permit authorizing the construction, alteration or extension of a
building or structure in the Outer Area
shall pay to the City development cost charges calculated in accordance with
Schedule "B".
Manner of Calculation
6. The amount of development cost charges payable depends upon:
(a) | the number of additional parcels being created by the application for a
single detached housing subdivision or a mobile home lot subdivision;
(b) the unit floor area of each individual dwelling unit proposed when applying
for a building permit for a multiple unit housing building, provided that
where the permit is authorizing the alteration of a building that previously
contained dwelling units, development cost charges are payable only in
respect of the additional number of dwelling units being created in the
building; (Bylaw 5402)
(c) the gross floor area (in square metres) that will be constructed when
applying for a building permit for commercial or institutional development;
and
(d) -- the gross site area (in hectares) that will be developed when applying for a
building permit for industrial development.
For mixed use developments, the development cost charge payable shall be
calculated separately for each portion of the development in accordance with the
zones and land uses which are contained in the building permit or subdivision
application. The total payable will be the sum of the development cost charges
for each portion of the development.
Timing of Payment
7. Development cost charges payable under this bylaw shall be paid to the City at
the time of approval of the subdivision or issuance of the building permit in
respect of which the charges are imposed.
Application to Buildings Containing Two or Three Dwelling Units
8. Despite section 933(4)(b) of the Local Government Act, development cost
charges are payable under this bylaw in relation to a building permit authorizing
the construction of a building containing two or three dwelling units, other than a
single detached housing building containing a permitted secondary suite.
Waiver of DCC's for Low Income Housin
9. Pursuant to the Local Government Act, development cost charges for low income
housing are waived in their entirety.
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READ A FIRST TIME THIS 14" day of December, 2009
READ A SECOND TIME THIS 14" day of December, 2009
READ A THIRD TIME THIS 14 day of December, 2009
APPROVED BY THE INSPECTOR OF MUNICIPALITIES THIS 26" day of February,
2010.
ADOPTED THIS 8" day of March, 2010.
'W. Lippert'
Mayor:
'P. Bridal'
Corporate Officer:
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Schedule A, attached hereto
and forming part of Bylaw 5233
2024 Schedule A - Development Districts 1 & 2
. Sanitary Sanitary
Land use em geneea Collection Treatment stoma Total DCC
DCC DCC
Single Per
Detached $8,836 $3,127 $589 $1,751 $14,303
: parcel
Housing
Single
Detached -
Small lot (less Per
than 400m?) parcel $5,890 $2,606 $491 $1,242 $10,229
or Mobile
Home Lot
Semi-
Detached / Per m2 of
Duplex / unit floor $33.72 $13.74 $2.59 $8.27 $58.31
Three-Plex / area
Four-Plex
Row Housing | Per m?of
/ Stacked unit floor $43.31 $17.64 $3.32 $4.92 $69.20
Row Housing area
Apartment Per m?of
i : unit floor $46.57 $16.81 $3.17 $5.64 $72.19
ousing
area
"Small unit Fett Mose $38.67 $18.62 $3.51 $7.99 $68.79
(less than . . . . .
56m2) area
. . Per m? of
ONicel Reta' | gross $17.32 $10.42 $1.96 $3.27 $32.98
floor area
Highway/ Per m? of
Large Format gross $25.99 $7.29 $1.37 $11.57 $46.23
Commercial floor area
Per
Industrial hectare of $72,761 $24,508 $4,620 $38,565 $140,454
site area
Per m? of
Institutional gross $25.99 $11.47 $2.16 $5.40 $45.02
floor area
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Schedule B, attached hereto
And forming part of Bylaw 5233
2024 Schedule B - Development District 3
. Sanitary Sanitary
Land use Neen Collection Treatment store Total DCC
DCC DCC
Single Per
Detached $16,031 $3,127 $589 $1,751 $21,498
: parcel
Housing
Single
Detached -
Small lot (less Per
than 400m2) parcel $10,687 $2,606 $491 $1,242 $15,026
or Mobile
Home Lot
Semi-
Detached / Per m2of
Duplex / unit floor $61.18 $13.74 $2.59 $8.27 $85.77
Three-Plex / area
Four-Plex
Row Housing | Per m?of
/ Stacked unit floor $78.55 $17.64 $3.32 $4.92 $104.44
Row Housing area
Apartment Per m?of
i : unit floor $84.50 $16.81 $3.17 $5.64 $110.12
ousing
area
"Smal unit pve $70.16 $18.62 $3.51 $7.99 $100.28
; (lessthan | | . | . | . | . | . |
56m2) area
. . Per m?of
Office/ Retail/
$31.43 $10.42 $1.96 $3.27 $47.09
oor area
Highway/ Per m? of
Large Format gross $47.15 $7.29 $1.37 $11.57 $67.39
Commercial floor area
Per
Industrial hectare of $132,021.57 $24,507.93 $4,620.43 $38,564.56 $199,715
site area
Per m2of
Institutional gross $47.15 $11.47 $2.16 $5.40 $66.18
floor area