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Old Posted Aug 31, 2016, 4:30 PM
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I think a fair medium would be to just base it on actual costs as some have mentioned. For example, Pointe Hebert was already completely serviced as there were homes and businesses before.

Something like the new houses on off Grosvenor in River Heights, that land was a field before and most of the site isn't serviced. However, it's easy to service that site because it's surrounded by existing homes, so any fee should be minimal.

Then, something way out at the edge of the city surrounded by nothing will obviously be way more expensive to service because there's nothing there yet, and should have much higher fees.

Some will then argue that those people living further out will pay high fees, and a developers/homeowners that wants to build in the void left between the new area and existing city edge won't have to pay enough/their fair share and the further people will shoulder more of the burden... Well that's the whole damn point. Discourage leaving huge gaps.
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