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 "answer": "In the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, Ontario, development charges & levies rules are set by Development Charges By-law 149-2022 (revised, post-OLT settlement) and 3 other bylaws, verified 2026-10-28. Charge per single-detached home: $9,000.00 per unit (Jan 1–Dec 31, 2026); scheduled $9,909.00 from Jan 1, 2027. Charge per apartment unit: 2 bedrooms+: $7,394.80; bachelor & 1 bedroom: $3,819.95 per unit (Jan 1–Dec 31, 2026). Non-residential charge: Commercial/institutional $3.26 per sq ft GFA; greenhouses $0.12 per sq ft (Jan 1–Dec 31, 2026).",
 "municipality_id": "gx-001465",
 "municipality": "Chatham-Kent",
 "status_type": "Municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "development_charges",
 "label": "Development charges & levies",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-10-28",
 "official_website": "https://www.chatham-kent.ca/Pages/default.aspx",
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   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Development Charges By-law 149-2022 (revised, post-OLT settlement)",
   "category": "development_charges",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2022-08-08",
   "document_url": "https://www.chatham-kent.ca/business/developmentcharges/Documents/By-law%20149-2022%20Development%20Charges%20August%209%202022%20(REVISED).pdf",
   "summary": "Municipal-wide DC by-law for highways, fire, policing, ambulance, library, parks and recreation, waste diversion. Phased increases; expires Aug 9, 2027. Payable at building permit.",
   "discovered_by": "dc-on",
   "discovered_at": "2026-10-19",
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   "captured_at": "2026-10-19T15:54:40+00:00",
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   "document_number": "149-2022",
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   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "services_covered": "Services Related to a Highway; Fire Protection; Policing; Parks and Recreation; Library; Ambulance; Waste Diversion; Growth Studies",
    "exemptions": "Places of worship, cemeteries, colleges/universities, industrial development, public hospitals, Children's Treatment Centre, airport, affordable/non-profit housing, farm buildings; rental housing 50+ units 50% reduction; industrial enlargement ≤50%.",
    "payment_timing": "At building permit issuance; rental/institutional 6 instalments from occupancy; non-profit housing 21 instalments from occupancy.",
    "indexing_expiry": "Adjusted annually commencing Jan 1 2023 per prescribed index; expires 12:01 AM Aug 9, 2027 unless repealed earlier."
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "services_covered": "s. 2.1",
    "exemptions": "s. 3.6; s. 3.8",
    "payment_timing": "s. 3.12–3.14",
    "indexing_expiry": "s. 5.1; s. 9.1"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/chatham-kent/development-charges/bylaw-149-2022/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
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   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "PUC Water and Wastewater Development Charges By-law 30-2024",
   "category": "development_charges",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2024-03-18",
   "document_url": "https://www.chatham-kent.ca/services/water/Documents/30-2024%20-%20PUC%20Development%20Charges%20By-law.pdf",
   "summary": "Separate PUC water/wastewater DC by-law, payable at building permit or consent agreement.",
   "discovered_by": "dc-on",
   "discovered_at": "2026-10-19",
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   "captured_at": "2026-10-19T15:54:40+00:00",
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   "document_number": "30-2024",
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   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "services_covered": "Water services: treatment, supply/transmission main, storage, pumping stations; wastewater services: treatment facilities, trunk sewers.",
    "exemptions": "Additional dwelling units; affordable/attainable units; non-profit housing; industrial enlargement ≤50%; places of worship; hospitals; farm buildings; private water/wastewater servicing.",
    "payment_timing": "Upon building permit issuance; agreements may provide before/after; rental housing and institutional developments in 6 installments from first occupancy certificate, then annually.",
    "indexing_expiry": "Adjusted annually from first anniversary in accordance with prescribed index; expires 12:01 AM March 25, 2034 unless repealed earlier."
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "services_covered": "s. 2.1; Schedule \"A\"",
    "exemptions": "s. 3.5; s. 3.7; s. 3.9",
    "payment_timing": "s. 3.14; s. 3.15; s. 3.16",
    "indexing_expiry": "s. 5.1; s. 10.1"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/chatham-kent/development-charges/bylaw-30-2024/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  },
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   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Rates page: 2022-2027 Development Charge Rates (Chatham-Kent)",
   "category": "development_charges",
   "document_type": "announcement",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.chatham-kent.ca/business/developmentcharges/Documents/DC%20Rates%202022%20to%202027.pdf",
   "summary": "rates page: 2026 (Jan 1-Dec 31 2026) municipal-wide: $7,000 single/semi-detached; $6,552 multiples; $7,005.60 apartments 2BR+; $3,618.90 apartments bachelor/1BR; $3.09/sq ft commercial/institutional. 2027 schedule: $9,909 single/semi.",
   "discovered_by": "dc-on",
   "discovered_at": "2026-10-19",
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   "captured_at": "2026-10-19T15:54:40+00:00",
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   "facts": {
    "single_detached_charge": "$9,000.00 per unit (Jan 1–Dec 31, 2026); scheduled $9,909.00 from Jan 1, 2027",
    "apartment_charge": "2 bedrooms+: $7,394.80; bachelor & 1 bedroom: $3,819.95 per unit (Jan 1–Dec 31, 2026)",
    "non_residential_charge": "Commercial/institutional $3.26 per sq ft GFA; greenhouses $0.12 per sq ft (Jan 1–Dec 31, 2026)",
    "services_covered": "Services Related to a Highway, Fire Protection, Policing, Parks and Recreation, Library, Ambulance, Waste Diversion",
    "exemptions": "Rental housing 50+ units: 50% reduction; 3+ bedroom rental: 25%; 2 bedroom rental: 20%; other rental (bachelor/1 bedroom): 15% reduction",
    "indexing_expiry": "By-law effective Aug 8, 2022; final rate period ends Aug 9, 2027; no indexing formula stated"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "single_detached_charge": "\"Total Municipal Wide Services/Class of Services\" — Single and Semi-Detached Dwelling column, all six rate period tables",
    "apartment_charge": "\"Total Municipal Wide Services/Class of Services\" — Apartments columns, all six rate period tables",
    "non_residential_charge": "\"Non-Residential (per square foot of gross floor area)\" — Commercial/Institutional and Greenhouses columns, all six rate period tables",
    "services_covered": "Service/Class of Service rows: \"Services Related to a Highway\", \"Fire Protection Services\", \"Policing Services\", \"Parks and Recreation Services\", \"Library Services\", \"Ambulance\", \"Waste Diversion\"",
    "exemptions": "\"Rental Housing with fifty (50) or more Dwelling Units - 50% D.C. reduction\" and items 2–4 of reduction notes appended to each rate period table",
    "indexing_expiry": "\"Effective from Aug 8, 2022\" (first table header); \"Effective from January 1, 2027 to August 9, 2027\" (final table header)"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/chatham-kent/development-charges/rates-page-2022-2027-development-charge-rates/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  },
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Water & Wastewater Development Charges By-law Information 2026 (By-law 30-2024, as amended)",
   "category": "development_charges",
   "document_type": "announcement",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.chatham-kent.ca/services/water/Documents/DC%20Charges%20Webpage%20Version%202026.pdf",
   "summary": "rates page: 2026 urban water+wastewater: $11,253 single/semi-detached (water $7,650 + wastewater $3,603); $7,314 apartments 2BR+; $4,422 bachelor/1BR; $8.12/sq ft commercial.",
   "discovered_by": "dc-on",
   "discovered_at": "2026-10-19",
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   "captured_at": "2026-10-19T15:54:40+00:00",
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   "document_number": "30-2024",
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   "facts": {
    "single_detached_charge": "$11,253 per unit, urban water & wastewater DCs only (water $7,650 + wastewater $3,603), effective March 25, 2026",
    "apartment_charge": "2 bedrooms+: $7,314; bachelor & 1 bedroom: $4,422 per unit, urban water & wastewater DCs only (effective March 25, 2026)",
    "non_residential_charge": "Water & wastewater DCs only, per sq ft GFA: $8.12 commercial & institutional; $4.52 industrial; $8.69 greenhouses (effective March 25, 2026)",
    "services_covered": "Water system supply, water distribution services, sanitary sewer services, and wastewater treatment services",
    "exemptions": "Education Act boards, Municipality of Chatham-Kent/local boards, qualifying universities; intensification of existing/new housing (s.3.5); rental unit reductions (s.3.6); industrial development (s.3.7); other exemptions (s.3.9)",
    "payment_timing": "Generally upon building permit issuance; water/wastewater services payable at time of agreement as condition of consent; or upon CK PUC permit for new water/sanitary connection; planning application rate-lock available within 2 years of permit",
    "indexing_expiry": "Adjusted annually per most recent 12-month change in Statistics Canada Quarterly 'Construction Price Statistics'; no expiry date stated"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "single_detached_charge": "\"Total Urban Services\" table row; \"Effective March 25, 2026\"",
    "apartment_charge": "\"Total Urban Services\" table row; \"Effective March 25, 2026\"",
    "non_residential_charge": "\"Non-Residential (per Sq. Ft. of Gross Floor Area)\" table header; \"Effective March 25, 2026\"",
    "services_covered": "\"water system supply, water distribution services, sanitary sewer services and wastewater treatment services\"",
    "exemptions": "\"Section 3.5\", \"Section 3.6\", \"Section 3.7\", \"Section 3.9\"; \"owned by and used for the purposes of\"",
    "payment_timing": "\"calculated, payable and collected upon issuance of a building permit\"; \"payable at the time of an agreement entered into as a condition of consent\"",
    "indexing_expiry": "\"adjusted annually, in accordance with the most recent twelve-month change in the Statistics Canada Quarterly\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/chatham-kent/development-charges/bylaw-30-2024-2/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  },
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   "primary": false,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Development Charge Exemptions",
   "category": "development_charges",
   "document_type": "other",
   "status": "n/a",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.chatham-kent.ca/business/developmentcharges/Documents/Development%20Charge%20Exemptions.pdf",
   "summary": "Summary of exempt and partially exempt development.",
   "discovered_by": "dc-on",
   "discovered_at": "2026-10-19",
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   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/chatham-kent/development-charges/development-charge-exemptions/",
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 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/chatham-kent/development-charges/"
}