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Subsidize development charges for high employers

Posted by on Oct 28, 2009 | 0 comments

Subsidize development charges for high employers

QuestionsView Results Please explain why, or why not. This is a follow up to my loss leader post.  You should read it before voting.  A very quick summary is this :-New growth costs money.  New growth should pay for itself. However, all new growth is not same 1 million sq ft office complex employs 25 times as many people as an industrial compound of same size.   However, they both pay same development charge (should they?) Other municipalities already do this.  Development Charge in Guelph for above structure is around $3 million.  In Halton it...

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