THE CORPORATION OF THE
CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

MEMORANDUM

B.R., Kirk DATE: January 22,
City Administrator

W. Brown
Director of Community Planning

Planning Department Fees

RECOMMENDATION:

That City Council direct the Clerk to prepare a bylaw amending
the Rezoning Application Fee Bylaw providing for fees for
amendments to the Ofticia| Community Plan.

AND That fees for amending the Official Community Plan be set
at $900.00. The fees are divided as follows:

A. $650.00 is for advertising the public hearing for the plan
amendment bylaw, which would be refundable should the bylaw
not proceed to public hearing.

$250.00 for Planning fees to offset statf time cost in
reviewing an application for amending the Official
Community Plan.

COMMENTS:

This proposal for revision of fees is being presented for
consideration now that the City has operated under the new
Official Community Plan for a year. Up to this time, the
Planning Department has treated applications for revision to
the plan as fine tuning. Now that a year has passed it is feit
that subsequent applications should pay for the cost for

processing, similar to rezoning applications,

Composition of the fees are similar to rezoning fees in that
the standard fee of $650.00 for advertising is apptied. Where
the fees for Official Community Plan amendments differ from
rezoning fees is that a flat fee of $250.00 jis proposed rather
than a fee that varies according to the proposal. The reason
for using a flat fee is that criteria tor variation of tees can
not be developed until there is some experience in processing
such applications.

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