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It's going to cost you more to go through the development application process at city hall.
Council approved this week an average eight per cent increase in development application fees.
Development application fees are going up an average of eight per cent across the board.
Increases to fees such as variance requests, amendments to development permits and zoning amendments to carriage homes, were recommended following a review by Deloitte LLP in the fall of last year.
"What we're talking about is the cost to process a development application from start to finish," said urban planning manager Ryan Smith.
"Legally, we can't charge more than the cost of the service we're providing. The service is the processing of the development application."
Smith said the city doesn't typically recover the entire cost of processing each application, much of which is staff time.
Targets were set for 85 per cent cost recovery on developer oriented applications and 55 per cent on applications of a more minor scale. The overall recovery rate was target between 70-75 per cent.
Through the review, there was a mix between fees that went up, fees which went own and those that remained the same.
"There is a business component to development application fees and there is also a community component," said Smith.
"We tried not to create any disincentives with fee pricing."
The city has built in a cost of living increase to the fees, which will kick in Jan. 1 of each year.
As part of the fee structure, Smith said there is an incentive for homeowners to do things the right way the first time.
He said for someone who builds an accessory building, includes an illegal carriage home, then comes back after the fact to make it legal, the cost would more than double.
Coun. Ryan Donn said he liked some of the subtleties of the new fee bylaw.
"For example, with heritage, to revitalize something it costs a little bit less now but to alter heritage it costs almost twice as much," said Donn.
Mayor Colin Basran said the rationale behind the changes was well thought out and very well detailed.
"It's always nice to make evidence-based decisions, as opposed to just because."
