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Originally Posted by McC
The problem, as I understand it, is that there is only section 37 money when the proposed development exceeds the zoned density (and the amount is based on the scale of the surplus density). This creates a very perverse situation where those who would like the rule of law and an amount of certainty in how we can expect zoning and other rules in place to be enforced and yet also want to attract benefits for their community from increased development and density actually have an incentive to see each new development go through as exception to the zoning.
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Actually it doesn't. The community money you want should come from high development charges. S37 should only apply, on TOP of high development charges, in the very rare cases where the developer makes a strong case for e.g. additional height.
Instead we have low (or zero) dev charges and developers build as high as they want, and so the city begs around for some scraps of S37 money (which it's clear will only ever be 100s of thousands, not some multi-million dollar bonanza).
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