After two years of negotiations, the City and land developers are essentially where they started from on the issue of city coffers covering infrastructure costs to link up new communities.
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After two years of negotiations, the City and land developers are essentially where they started from on the issue of city coffers covering infrastructure costs to link up new communities.
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Medicine Hat city council is poised to pass two labour agreements and consider next year’s utility charges but, barring a late addition to Monday’s agenda, a possible “municipal assist” for land developers will not yet be discussed in open council.
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Future developers in Gasoline Alley will pay significantly more in offsite levies after Red Deer County council passed a new bylaw on Tuesday.
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Local builders and land developers say a year-long process to develop an Off-site Levy Bylaw isn’t offering the cost certainty they need on projects.
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Red Deer County is proposing a new range of levies to pay for the cost of developing the fast-growing Gasoline Alley area.
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Strathcona County council will be considering the second and third reading of an off-site levies bylaw on Tuesday, Aug. 13 at the first council meeting after the summer break.
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There is agreement between the City and developers about how much extending roads and pipes to new communities should cost.
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With a narrowed focus, city officials and developers are confident they can reach a consensus on the cost involved of a new Off-site Levy Bylaw in the next 60 days, while leaving the stickier issue of the city’s cost-sharing program of servicing new developments out of the picture… for now.
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Homeowners ultimately pay the price when communities download costs on to developers, said a former president of the Urban Development Institute.
“That’s really where it goes in the end,” said Ray Watkins, a principal with Edmonton-based G3 Development Services Ltd., on Tuesday.
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The City of Medicine Hat is working against itself towards its goal of redeveloping downtown and the Flats, say some parties involved in talks to revamp off-site levy fees.
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