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Colwood seeks input on planning fees Kyle Wells Kyle Wells News staff News staff
Colwood staff are asking resiColwood asking dents to fill staff out aare survey onresiplandents to fill out a survey onproplanning fees and the planning ning anditthe planning process fees to help improve services. cess tosurvey, help it which improve services. The will be The survey, be online until 10 which p.m. onwill Sept. online untilto10rezoning, p.m. on Sept. 18, relates Official 18, relates toPlan rezoning, Official Community amendments, Community Plan amendments,
development permits, variance development permits,ofvariance permits, subdivision land, spepermits, of land, special eventsubdivision permits, sign permits, cial eventlicences permits,and signsecondary permits, business business licences and secondary suite permits. suite Thepermits. public engagement comes Thecouncil public direction, engagement comes from as the from council direction,attempts as the to planning department planning department increase fees. Fees forattempts planningto increase fees.have Feesnot for risen planning applications since applications have cases not risen 1998 and in some the since city 1998 and in some cases the city
is losing money on processing is losing money on processing applications. applications. Application fees could double fees could double orApplication more than double to even out or more than double even out costs. The idea is theto change costs. is the change would The shiftidea the burden from taxwould the burden from taxpayersshift to applicants. payers applicants. “The to feedback has been posi“The feedback has been tive in the sense that we’repositaktive in the sense that we’re taking the right route to consider ing the right route toas consider streamlining, as well the ratiostreamlining, as well as the ratio-
nalization of our fees,” said plannalization of our fees,” said planner Iain Bourhill. ner Iainother Bourhill. The hope is to look at Thetoother hopethe is red to look at ways “reduce tape” ways to “reduce the red tape” surrounding planning approvals. surrounding The use of planning an onlineapprovals. survey usean ofeffort an online survey is The in part to find new is in part an effort to residents. find new ways to engage with ways to engage withhouses residents. Attendance at open can Attendance at open houses can be poor. be“We’re poor. going to try to engage “We’re going to try to engage
people as best we can, and if this people best wesurvey, can, and this type of as electronic a if pastype of electronic survey, passive survey, doesn’t work,awe’ll sive survey,atdoesn’t work, we’ll be looking other options,” be looking at other options,” Bourhill said. Bourhill said.the survey visit To fill out To fill out the survey visit colwood.ca/city-services/plancolwood.ca/city-services/planning-and-development/planningning-and-development/planningreview. review. kwells@goldstream kwells@goldstream gazette.com gazette.com
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