\u0022If growth will not pay for growth, existing taxpayers will.\u0022
These are just some of the local impacts threatened by the province’s More Homes Built Faster Act and related proposals, according to a grim analysis prepared by city staff, in the name of hitting a provincially imposed housing target they say overshoots mightily the amount of housing the city actually needs.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“As currently worded, the adoption of Bill 23 will mean conclusively that growth will not pay for growth, and the burden of supporting infrastructure necessitated by growth could be significantly delayed, levels of service degraded, and/or the costs passed on to existing municipal rate payers.” Staff say they can’t estimate fully how proposals by the province to cut back charges the city levies on new development will affect municipal coffers overall, with things like planned exemptions for “attainable” and “affordable” housing yet to be clearly defined by the province.
The cost for growth-related studies, like groundwater studies and community infrastructure plans, is currently $1.5 million a year. The province is proposing to prevent cities from recovering these costs through development charges. Staff say these studies are made necessary by growth, and forcing the city to find other ways to pay for them “runs contrary to the idea that growth should pay for growth.
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