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Ottawa calls development fees a housing tax, but without them, who pays for new infrastructure? - The Globe and Mail

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An aircraft passes behind towers in the Metrotown area of Burnaby, B.C., on May 30, 2021. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS Andrew Sancton started to wonder about the way local taxes worked when his entire street in an older neighbourhood near Western University in London, Ont., got dug up and completely redone. New sewers, sidewalks, pavement, all at no extra charge to him or his neighbours. While those upgrades 10 years ago didn’t cost him a penny, he knew that anyone who bought a new house in a new development would be paying hefty extra charges in the tens of thousands of dollars for that same infrastructure through the “development cost charges” that the builder was charged by the city. “These people were paying for their own new infrastructure through the charges and, at the same time, for rebuilding my street through their property taxes. If it’s younger people buying houses, they’re getting dinged.” What Mr. Sancton, then a political science professor at Western specializing in ci

Open this photo in gallery: An aircraft passes behind towers in the Metrotown area of Burnaby, B.C., on May 30, 2021. DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press Share Save for later Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account Andrew Sancton started to wonder about the way local taxes worked when his entire street in an older neighbourhood near Western University in London, Ont., got dug up and completely redone. New sewers, sidewalks, pavement, all at no extra charge to him or his neighbours. While those upgrades 10 years ago didn’t cost him a penny, he knew that anyone who bought a n

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