By Frances Bula – courtesy of the Globe & Mail
Vancouver got $223-million last year in fees and special charges from developers, an amount equal to about a quarter of the annual city budget.
But it got a large chunk of that through a unique system of painstaking negotiations that are done project by project – something that Vancouver’s reigning political team and incoming general manager of planning think needs to be simplified.
Full story here:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/debate-over-vancouver-fee-system-puts-developers-and-public-at-odds/article4477998/
