E&N Corridor DCC AVICC Resolution

"THAT the following E&N Transportation Corridor Development Cost Charge resolution be submitted to the 2017 Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities' Annual General Meeting and Convention: "WHEREAS the Esquimalt & Nanaimo (E&N) Corridor is publicly owned; a critical transportation and utility corridor for Vancouver Island intended to help alleviate congestion on our major roads; and where 90% of the Island's population lives, works and recreates within a 5km distance from the Corridor; AND WHEREAS Island municipalities would need to supplement the costs of a transportation service in this corridor given that it would not be fully sustained solely by taxes, grants, passenger fares and/or railway revenue; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities petition the Province of British Columbia to amend legislation enabling Vancouver Island municipalities and regional districts to collect Development Cost Charges for the purpose of constructing/altering transportation service on the E&N Corridor.""