The City of Guelph completed a 2018 Development Charges Background Study – Consolidated Report. The information gathered was used to inform the updated development charges bylaw and rates.
The City engaged Watson and Associates Economists Ltd. to conduct the study and enlisted a stakeholder group—comprised of local residents and representatives from the development community—to ensure the process resulted in a fair and defendable rate.
The study process involved:
- A forecast of the amount, type and location of development anticipated in the city.
- Determination of the average capital service levels provided in the City over the ten-year period preceding the preparation of the background study.
- A review of the capital infrastructure required to accommodate the forecasted growth including an analysis of gross expenditures and the funding sources, and the determination of the growth and non-growth related components of the capital projects.
- An examination of the long-term capital costs for the capital infrastructure required for each service to which the development charges bylaws would relate.
Background study material
- Development Charges Study: Stakeholder Input, April 20, 2018
- Development Charges Study: Responses to IBI Memorandum, March 29, 2018
- Development Charges Study: Guelph Wellington Development Association / Guelph and District Home Builders’ Association letter, October 24, 2018
- Development Charges Study: Responses to IBI Memorandum, October 19, 2018
- Development Charges Study: IBI Memorandum regarding Silvercreek Parkway/CN Grade Separation, October 9, 2018
- Development Charges Study: IBI Memorandum #2, October 9, 2018
- Development Charges Study: Responses to stakeholder comments, October 9, 2018
- Development Charges Capital Needs, June 15, 2018
- Development Charges Study: Draft Local Service PolicyDevelopment Charges Study: Stakeholder Input, January 31, 2018
- Development Charges Study capital project summary (2013)
Meeting minutes
- DC Study External Stakeholder Final Meeting, November 15, 2018
- DC Study External Stakeholder Meeting #4, October 25, 2018
- DC Study: The Cost of Growth, Council Workshop #2, June 27, 2018
- Development Charges stakeholder meeting #3 presentation, May 28, 2018
- Development Charges Study: external stakeholder meeting #2 minutes, March 23, 2018
- Development Charges stakeholder meeting #2 presentation, March 23, 2018
- Local Service Policy: Stakeholder Subcommittee review, April 17, 2018
- DC Study External Stakeholder Meeting #2, March 23, 2018
- Development Charges Council workshop presentation, February 21, 2018
- Development Charges Study stakeholder meeting minutes December 13, 2017