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Municipality of Lakeshore
By- law 56- 2022
Being a By- law to Amend By -Law 89- 2020, Respecting Development Charges
Whereas the Municipality of Lakeshore enacted By- law 89- 2020 pursuant to the
Development
Charges Act, 1997, S. O. 1997, c. 27, as amended (
the " Act"), which
Act authorizes Council to pass by- laws for the imposition of development charges
against
land;
And whereas the Municipality has undertaken a study pursuant to the Act which has
provided updated definitions and an updated Schedule B to By-law 89-2020;
And whereas Council has before it a report entitled " Municipality of Lakeshore 2022
Development
Charges
Update Study" prepared
by Watson & Associates
Economists
Ltd., dated March 30, 2022 ( the " update study");
And whereas the update study and proposed amending by- law were made available
to the public on March 30, 2022 and Council gave notice to the public pursuant to
section
12 of the Act.
And whereas Council, on April 26, 2022 held a meeting open to the public, pursuant
to section 12 of the Act, at which Council considered the study, and written and oral
submissions from the public;
Now therefore the Council of the Municipality of Lakeshore enacts as follows:
1. By-law 89-2020 is hereby amended as follows:
A. Addition of Accessory to the definitions in Section 1. 1 as follows:
Accessory: means a use, building, or structure that is normally incidental and/ or
subordinate and is exclusively devoted to a main use and/ or a building and/ or
structure, and is located on the same lot therewith. Accessory has the same
meaning
as ancillary.
B. Revise the definition of Apartment Dwelling in Section
1. 1 to include ancillary
units. The refined definition would read as follows:
apartment dwelling" means any residential dwelling unit within a building
containing five or more dwelling units where access to each residential unit is
obtained through a common entrance or entrances from the street level through
a common
entrance
or entrances
from the street
level and the residential
units
are connected
by an interior corridor. Apartment dwelling may also refer to a
dwelling unit in a structure that is ancillary to a residential building;
C. Addition of Class to the definitions in Section
1. 1 as follows:
Class" means a grouping of services combined to create a single service for the
purposes of this By- law and as provided in Section 7 of the Development
Charges Act. Also referred to as class of service or classes of services.
D. Addition of Site to the definitions in Section
1.
1 as follows:
Site" means a parcel of land which can be legally conveyed pursuant to Section
50 of the Planning Act and includes a development having two or more lots
consolidated
under
one identical ownership.
E. Insert Section 3. 7. 1 as follows:
Rules with Respect to Exemptions for Intensification of Existing Housing
a) No Development Charge shall be imposed where the only effect of an
action referred to in Section 3. 4 of this By- law is to:
i)
permit an enlargement to an existing residential
Dwelling Unit;
ii) permit the creation of one or two additional Dwelling Units in an
existing single detached dwelling or a prescribed ancillary
residential dwelling structure to the existing residential building;
iii) permit the creation of additional dwelling units equal to the
greater of one Dwelling Unit or one percent of the existing
Dwelling Units in existing Rental Housing or a prescribed
ancillary residential dwelling structure to the existing residential
building;
iv) permit the creation of one additional dwelling unit in any other
existing residential building already containing at least one
Dwelling Unit or prescribed ancillary residential dwelling
structure to the existing residential
building; or
v) permit the creation of a second dwelling unit in prescribed
classes of proposed new residential buildings, including
residential dwelling structures ancillary to dwellings, subject to
the following restrictions:
Item
Name of
Description
of
of
Class of --- -
Residential
Proposed
Buildings
Residential
BuildingsNew
1
Proposed
new
Proposed
new residential
The proposed new detached
detached
buildings
that would not be
dwelling must only contain two
dwellings
attached
to other buildings
and
dwelling units.
that are permitted to contain a
second dwelling unit, that
The proposed new detached
being either of the two
dwelling must be located on a
dwelling units, ifthe units
parcel of land on which no other
have the same gross floor area,
detached dwelling, semi -
or the smaller of the dwelling
detached dwelling or row
units.
dwelling would be located.
2
Proposed new
Proposed new residential
The proposed new semi- detached
semi- detached
buildings
that would have one
dwelling or row dwelling must
dwellings or
or two vertical
walls, but no
only contain two dwelling units.
row dwellings
other parts, attached to other
buildings
and that are
The proposed new semi- detached
permitted to contain a second
dwelling or row dwelling must
dwelling unit, that being either
be located on a parcel of land on
of the two dwelling units, if
which no other detached
the units have the same gross
dwelling, semi-detached
floor area, or the smaller of
dwelling or row dwelling would
the dwelling units.
be located.
3
Proposed
new
Proposed new residential
residential
buildings
that would be
buildings that
ancillary to a proposed new
would be
detached dwelling, semi -
ancillary to a
detached dwelling or row
proposed new
dwelling and that are
detached
permitted to contain a single
dwelling,
dwelling unit.
semi- detached
dwelling or
row dwelling
The proposed new detached
dwelling, semi- detached
dwelling or row dwelling, to
which the proposed new
residential building would be
ancillary, must only contain one
dwelling unit.
The gross floor area of the
dwelling unit in the proposed
new residential building must be
equal to or less than the gross
floor area of the detached
dwelling, semi- detached
dwelling or row dwelling to
which the proposed new
residential building is ancillary.
b) Notwithstanding 3. 7. 1( a) above, Development Charges shall be
imposed
if the total Gross
Floor Area of the additional
one or two units
exceeds the Gross Floor Area of the existing Dwelling Unit.
c) Notwithstanding 3. 7. 1( a) above, Development Charges shall be
imposed if the additional Dwelling Unit( s) has a Gross Floor Area
greater than:
i) in the case of a Semi- detached Dwelling Unit or Townhouse
Dwelling Unit, the Gross Floor Area of the existing Dwelling
Unit; and
ii) in the case of any other Residential Building, the Gross Floor
Area of the smallest Dwelling Unit contained in the said
residential Building.
d) The exemption to Development Charges in 3.7. 1( a) above shall only
apply to the first instance of intensification
in an existing or new
dwelling.
e) Subject
to 3. 7. 1( b), 3. 7. 1( c), and 3. 7. 1( d) above, any exemption under
3.7. 1( a) above shall apply to the smallest Dwelling Unit, as determined
by applicable rates under this By-law.
F. Add item c) to Section 3. 10 as follows:
c) Land vested in or leased to a university that receives regular and
ongoing operating funds from the government for the purposes of postsecondary
education is exempt from development charges imposed
under the Development
Charges Act, 1997 if the development
in
respect of which development charges would otherwise be payable is
intended to be occupied and used by the university.
G. Schedule " B" is deleted
and the attached
Schedule "B" is substituted
therefore.
2. This by- law shall come into force on the day it is enacted.
3. Except
as
amended
by this by- law, all
provisions
of By- law
89- 2020,
as
amended, are and shall remain in full force and effect.
Read and passed in open session on May 31, 2022.
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Mayor
Tom Bain
Clerk
Kristen
Newman
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