Should developers be allowed to fund fire stations and police detachments?
Staff recently recommended a change in policy which allows the city to get community benefits from developers, like child-care facilities, landscaping and public plazas, public art, non-profit program space, and affordable or special needs housing.
Staff recommended that council expand the kinds of community benefits that developers can fund to include: “I do feel like we’ve gone beyond what is consistent with provincial legislation, or at least what community amenities are meant to achieve,” Tetrault said. “I think it would be inappropriate to include those facilities that are equally shared by all residents onto just being paid for through the community amenity bonus,” Gu said.He said council’s decision is to create the criteria for the policy, and noted adding the types of benefits doesn’t mean they will be funded through the policy.
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