TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL 
DEVELOPMENT COST CHARGES BYLAW NO. 1011, 2019 
A Bylaw to Impose Development Cost Charges  
Consolidated to March 2023 
 
 
WHEREAS:  
 
(a) Council may impose development cost charges under Section 559 of the Local 
Government Act, as amended; 
 
(b) Development cost charges may be imposed for the purpose of providing funds to assist 
the Town in paying the capital cost of providing, constructing, altering or expanding 
sewage, water, drainage and highway facilities, and providing and improving parkland, to 
service, directly or indirectly, the developments for which the charges are imposed; 
 
(c) Council, in establishing the development cost charges imposed by this bylaw, has 
considered: 
 
i. 
future land use patterns and development,  
ii. 
the phasing of works and services,  
iii. 
the provision of park land described in the Town’s official community plan; and,  
iv. 
how development designed to result in a low environmental impact may affect the 
capital costs of infrastructure in the Town of View Royal; 
 
(d) Council is of the opinion that the development cost charges imposed by this bylaw: 
 
i. 
are not excessive in relation to the capital cost of prevailing standards of service,  
ii. 
will not deter development,  
iii. 
will not discourage the construction of reasonably priced housing or the provision of 
reasonably priced serviced land; and 
iv. 
will not discourage development designed to result in a low environmental impact in 
the Town of View Royal; 
 
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Town of View Royal in open meeting assembled, enacts as 
follows: 
 
TITLE 
 
1. This bylaw may be cited as “Development Cost Charges Bylaw No. 1011, 2019”. 
 
 

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DEFINITIONS 
 
2. In this bylaw: 
 
‘Building Permit’ means a permit authorizing the construction, alteration or extension of a 
building or structure, issued pursuant to the Building Bylaw No. 786, as amended. 
 
‘Commercial’ includes a building or structure that is not detached residential, multi-family 
residential or institutional, such as buildings or structures used or intended to be used to 
carry on one or more businesses, excluding a home occupation.  
 
‘Detached Residential’ means a residential lot or residential building that is used or intended 
to be used for no more than 2 dwelling units in accordance with the Zoning Bylaw No. 900, 
as amended.  
 
‘Dwelling Unit’ means one or more rooms which constitute a self-contained residential unit 
that is used or intended to be used by one household for living and sleeping purposes, and 
includes only one room equipped for the preparation of food and at least one bathroom, and 
specifically excludes transient accommodation. 
  
‘Gross Floor Area’ means the sum of the area of each floor of a building measured to the 
interior of the outside wall, excluding any rooms where the floor to ceiling height is not more 
than 1.5 m throughout, elevator shafts, rooftop enclosures for mechanical systems, and 
underground or concealed parking.  
 
‘Institutional Use’ includes a building or structure that is used or intended to be used for a 
civic use, public, school, or educational purpose, such as a hospital, indoor recreational 
facility, assembly hall, hospital, hostel, public utility use, or correctional or community care 
facility.  
 
‘In-stream’ means in reference to an application,  
(a) not determined, rejected or withdrawn, and  
(b) for which a person has: 
i. 
completed the application form; 
ii. 
paid the application fees; and  
iii. 
provided all the required supporting documentations 
 
‘Manufactured Home Park’ means the use of land for the purpose of providing sites or lots 
for the accommodation of three or more manufactured homes for a fee, rental or sales 
charge for the use of such space or individual manufactured home lot.  
 
‘Mixed Use’ means the use of land for more than one type of use in respect of which different 
development cost charges are payable under this Bylaw. 
 

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‘Multi-Family Residential’ includes a building or portion of building containing 3 or more 
dwelling units, such as apartments, rowhouses, townhouses, but does not include 
institutional uses.  
 
‘Residential Subdivision’ includes a subdivision under the Land Title Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 250, 
as amended or the Strata Property Act, S.B.C. 1998, c. 43, as amended that creates parcels 
that may be used for residential development, or a manufactured home park subdivision; 
 
‘Town’ means the Town of View Royal. 
 
DEVELOPMENT COST CHARGES 
 
3. A person who obtains: 
(a) approval of a residential subdivision; or 
(b)  a building permit authorizing the construction, alteration, or extension of a building or 
structure; 
 
shall pay to the Town the applicable development cost charge in the amount set out in 
Schedule A. 
 
EXCEPTIONS 
 
4. A person shall not pay a development cost charge under Section 3 if the person is not required 
to pay development cost charge under another enactment, including the following situations: 
 
(a) if the development does not impose new capital cost burdens on the Town; 
(b) if a development cost charge has been previously paid for the same development, 
unless, as a result of further development, new capital cost burdens will be imposed on 
the Town; 
(c) a building permit authorizes the construction, alteration or extension of a building or 
part of a building that is, or will be, after the construction, alteration or extension, 
exempt from taxation under section 220(1)(h) or 224(2)(f) of the Community Charter, 
S.B.C. 2003, c. 26 as amended; 
(d) a building permit authorizes the construction, alteration or extension of a building where 
the value of the work authorized by the permit does not exceed $50,000 or any other 
amount the Minister may prescribe; or, 
(e) a building permit authorizes the construction, alteration or extension of self-contained 
dwelling units in which each unit is no larger in area than 29 square metres, and each 
dwelling unit is to be put to no other use other than residential use. 
 
TIMING OF PAYMENT 
 
5. A person shall pay development cost charges in the following situations: 

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(a) After application for a residential subdivision has been made, but no later than at the 
time of the final approval of the subdivision; 
(b) For all other cases, after a building permit application has been made, but no later than 
at the time of the approval the building permit has been issued; 
 
unless the charges are equal to or greater than $50,000 and paid by way of instalments in 
accordance with BC Regulation 166/84 as amended or replaced. 
 
CALCULATION OF CHARGES 
 
6. The Town shall calculate the amount of development cost charges payable based on the 
following factors: 
a. the applicable charges set out in Schedule A; 
b. actual or probable use of the building; and  
c. the applicable number of development units or development area.  
 
7. If a building or structure is used or may be used for a mixed use,  
a. the Town shall calculate the amount of development cost charges separately for each 
portion of the development based on the separate development class or use types; 
and  
b. a person shall pay the sum of the charges payable for each development class or use.  
 
8. For purposes of calculating the development cost charges for a manufactured home park, 
the Town shall consider each site or lot within a manufactured home park to be a multi-
family residential unit.  
 
9. If a type of development is not identified on Schedule A, or in the event of a vacant building 
where the actual or probable use is uncertain, a person shall pay the amount of development 
cost charges that shall be equal to the development cost charges that would have been 
payable for the most comparable type of development.  
 
10. This Bylaw comes into effect on the date of adoption. 
 
SCHEDULE 
 
11. The following schedule is attached to and forms part of this Bylaw: 
 
 
Schedule A – Development Cost Charges Rates 
 
 
 
 

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REPEAL 
 
12. Development Cost Charges Bylaw, 2001, No. 427 and all of its amendments shall be repealed, 
except in the case of applications which are in-stream as of the date of adoption of 
Development Cost Charges Bylaw No. 1011, 2019 and the projects are completed within one 
year of the date of adoption, which will be subject to Development Cost Charges Bylaw, 2001, 
No. 427 and its amendments until that time. 
 
13.  Development Cost Charges Bylaw, 2001, No. 427 and all of its amendments shall be repealed 
in its entirety one year from the date set out in section 10. 
 
 
READ A FIRST TIME on the 19th day of March, 2019 
READ A SECOND TIME on the 19th day of March, 2019 
READ A THIRD TIME on the 19th day of March, 2019 
RECEIVED THE APPROVAL of the INSPECTOR OF MUNICIPALITIES on the 3rd day of June, 2019  
 
ADOPTED on the 18th  day of June, 2019 
 
 
 
 
 
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MAYOR  
 
 
 
 
 
CORPORATE OFFICER 

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SCHEDULE A – DEVELOPMENT COST CHARGES RATES 
Amendment Bylaw No. 1110, 2023 
 
 
 
Development Class (Land Use) 
Unit 
Roads 
Storm 
Sanitary 
Park 
Improvement 
Park 
Acquisition 
Total 
Detached Residential 
per dwelling unit 
$3,536 
$313 
$2,514 
$1,292 
$2,151 
$9,806 
Multi-Family Residential 
per dwelling unit 
$1,943 
$157 
$1,865 
$959 
$1,596 
$6,519 
Commercial 
per m² of Gross 
Floor Area 
$33.49 
$0.53 
$3.89 
$1.01 
$1.67 
$40.59 
Institutional 
per m² of Gross 
Floor Area 
$35.76 
$0.97 
$6.76 
$1.73 
$2.89 
$48.11