The Town of Ajax's Community Affairs and Planning Committee will be hosting a public meeting on Monday, December 7 at 7 p.m. to present and obtain public input on the municipality's proposed development charges by-law amendment and underlying background study.
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The Town of Ajax has prepared an amendment to the 2018 Development Charge Background Study in order to remove the Downtown Community Improvement Project Area (CIP) exemption provisions as directed by council on July 27, 2020 and to remove the Pickering Village Community Improvement Area (CIP) exemption provisions as directed by council on October 5, 2020. In addition to other statutory updates, the amendment also proposes to remove the 10% mandatory statutory reduction applied to certain eligible service categories in accordance with the provisions of Bill 108, which was proclaimed into law on September 18, 2020.
Proposed Increase
Increase - 2017 to 2020
Increase - 2018 to 2020
13%
Notice of Public Meeting
The meeting will held electronically. The meeting will be livestreamed for public viewing at www.ajax.ca/live. You can participate in the meeting in the following ways:
Written Submission
Written submission may be provided for the committee' consideration. Please submit your written comments before 12:00 p.m. on Monday, December 7, 2020 by email to clerks@ajax.ca.
Oral Submission
Oral submissions may be provided for the committee's consideration before the meeting. Please submit your oral comments before 12:00 p.m. on Monday, December 7, 2020 b y calling 905-619-2529 ext. 3270 and leaving your comments via voicemail message.
Comment at the Meeting
To make your comments to the committee during the meeting, you must pre-register by contacting clerks@ajax.ca before 4:30 p.m. on Friday, December 4, 2020.
If you have comments or concerns that you would like to be passed on through DRHBA, please contact Stacey Hawkins.
The City of Pickering will be hosting an Electronic Public Open House on Thursday, November 5, 2020, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on their comprehensive zoning by-law review.
The meeting will provide interested parties the opportunity to learn more about the discussion papers, ask questions and provide feedback.
You can watch the live-streamed meeting at www.youtube.ca/SustainablePickering.
You can participate in the Electronic Open House in several ways.
Discussion papers are available online at pickering.ca/zonereview.
For more information on the by-law review or the public open house, contact:
Deborah Wylie, Manager, Zoning & Administration City Development Department Email: dwylie@pickering.ca Phone: 905-420-4660 ext. 2195
Ontario Dispute Adjudication for Construction Contracts (ODACC) released its 2020 Annual Report, its first annual report that includes the first 10 months since the adjudication provisions of the Construction Act came into force.
During the 2020 fiscal year, ODACC certified 65 adjudicators, including engineers, project managers, lawyers, quantity surveyors, arbitrators, architects and an accountant. The adjudicators set their hourly rate, between $250 and $750 per hour. In addition, 95% of adjudicators are willing to conduct adjudications for a flat fee rate that is proportionate to the amount in dispute. These flat fee rates range from $800 to $3,000.
Thirty-seven of the adjudicators willing to travel to Durham Region without travel or disbursement charges.
During ODACC's 2020 fiscal year, 32 adjudications were commenced at ODACC. Of the 32 adjudications, 3 adjudications resulted in the rendering of a determination - 2 in Durham Region and 1 in Essex. All three were in the residential sector. Seven adjudications remain open, and the remaining were withdrawn on consent by the parties.
During the 2020 fiscal year, ODACC received $3,975 (plus HST) in adjudication fees and $1,000 (plus HST) in adjudication referral fees.
On September 24, 2020 the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) approved the development charges settlement brokered between DRHBA and the City of Oshawa.
In 2019, Oshawa City Council approved a new development charges by-law, which DRHBA immediately appealed. DRHBA then presented the City with a settlement offer, which was accepted.
The settlement included:
Once the by-law was put in place, the City started charging development charges with the full increase amount included. Now that the LPAT has approved the settlement, builders who paid the full charge between July 1, 2019 and September 24, 2020 will receive a refund of the increase amount. The City of Oshawa has begun to process these refunds. Going forward, the appropriate amount will be charged for development charges.
Prior to the settlement, DRHBA and its stakeholder group had reduced the increase by $2,604 per single detached home; kept the redevelopment credit at 10 years; and removed Type C Arterial roads from the development charge.
DHRBA's executive officer, Stacey Hawkins, has been elected chair of OHBA's Executive Officers Committee.
Stacey was certified by OHBA's governance committee, elected by her fellow EOs and confirmed by OHBA's Board of Directors and by members at the AMM. She will serve as chair for two years. As chair, she also becomes a non-voting member of the OHBA board of directors.
The Ontario Home Builders' Association has announced the finalists for their 2020 Awards of Distinction.
A full list of nominees can be found here.
Congratulations to our DRHBA members who are finalists, including:
Winners of the OHBA 2020 AoD will be announced November 10th via Live Broadcast with comedian and TV personality James Cunningham serving as host. This year’s Awards of Distinction co-presented by Federated Insurance and Rogers, will be conducted virtually in an interactive portal and includes everything from networking, live streams, tradeshow booths, games, and much more.
Registration to the awards is free to all and we look forward to celebrating and showing off Ontario’s best of the best when it comes to residential construction, design and marketing.
On Monday, September 28th, OHBA hosted their Annual Meeting of Members (AMM).
At the meeting, OHBA's seven draft resolutions were passed. In addition, the 2020-2021 OHBA Board was approved.
The 2020-2021 OHBA Board of Directors includes:
Table Officers
Past President: Rick Martins, Brantford, Waterloo Region
President: Bob Schickedanz, Simcoe County, Durham, BILD
First Vice-President: Louie Zagordo, Sudbury
Second Vice-President: Dave Depencier, Chatham-Kent
Second Vice-President: Bob Ridley, Ottawa
Treasurer: Susan Cudahy, multi-local through Enbridge
Corporate Secretary: Christina Giannone, BILD
Four Largest Local HBA Designates:
BILD: Jason Sheldon
Greater Ottawa: Roy Nandram
London: Dave Stimac
West End HBA: Nick Carnicelli
7 Regional Groups
North Region: TBD, Sudbury, 2-year - end 2022
East Region: Gary Burtch, Haliburton, 2 year - end 2022
East Region: John-Ross Parks, Quinte, 1 year - end 2021
Central Region: Maria Kyveris, Waterloo Region, 2 year - end 2022
Central Region: Mike Memme, Niagara, 1 year - end 2021
Southwest Region: Heather Galloway, Stratford and Area, 2 year - end 2022
Southwest Region: Jon Rumble, Chatham-Kent, 1 year - end 2021
3 Voting Council Chairs
Chair Presidents' Council: Tom McLaughlin, GDHBA
Chair Builders'/Developers' Council: Doug Tarry, STEHBA
Chair Renovators' Council: Jamie Adam, WRHBA
2 Board Nominated and President Appointed Board member
Board Nominee: Steve Deveaux, BILD, DRHBA
Board Nominee: Pierre Dufresne, GOHBA
2 Board Non-voting Board Members
Executive Officers' Council: Stacey Hawkins, DRHBA
OHBA CEO: Joe Vaccaro
At the September 28th Whitby Council meeting, council voted unanimously to pass the revised Whitby Green Standards, with a revision.
Through DRHBA's extensive advocacy work, the Town conceded that they could not mandate building above code. This memo was attached to the item at the council meeting, which essentially made the requirements to build beyond code preferred but not mandatory.
The rest of the Whitby Green Standards passed as is. While Tier 1 becomes mandatory immediately, most of the requirements were already mandatory through other Whitby bylaws and standards. However, Tiers 2 through 4 will require much more from builders and developers. DRHBA will continue to work with the Town to create incentives for these additional tiers, and will continue to oppose mandating any requirements that go above and beyond the Ontario Building Code and the Planning Act.
Tier 1 is mandatory immediately. Here are the relevant documents on the Whitby Green Standards:
DRHBA worked extensively to ensure that the Town did not mandate anything above code, and the following details our advocacy efforts:
The school boards were considering passage of the new EDC bylaw later this month, however that meeting has now been delayed. The new meeting has been rescheduled for October 27, 2020 and the new implementation date for the new charge/bylaw is scheduled for November 2, 2020.
The charts below outlines the new charge for each school board as well as what the phase-in rates will be for each year on the anniversary of the implementation date.
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