Documentation
October 2024
April 2024
March 2024
- Citizen Letter 3.24
- Urgent Reconsideration Needed, Letter of Support
- Denial of over 800 new homes – Letter of Support
February 2024
June 2023
March 2023
December 2021
- North Cowichan’s Official Community Plan Update
- Letter to Douglas Routley MLA
- Duncan Cowichan Chamber of Commerce Support Letter
October 2018
Taxes, DCC’s and CAC’s calculation for West Vista Town Core Neighbourhood
Here is the Municipal Tax Revenue, Development Cost Charges (DCC’s) and Community Amenity Contributions (CAC’s) that will be pail to Municipality of North Cowichan for our West Vista Terrace project.
$66,857,450.00 in taxes will be collected over 25 years
$6,702,549.00 in Development Cost Charges will be collected over 10 years as project gets built out.
$57,783,816.00 in Community Amenity Contributions will be collected over 10 years as project gets built out.
The total paid to the municipality is
$131,343,815.00
from the West Vista Terrace Development.
We are excited that North Cowichan may soon have Hotel and a retail Town Core Neighbourhood where people can Work, Shop, Eat and Sleep only 2 min from the new 1.6 Bilion Hospital.
Thank you for your assistance in helping us fix the housing crisis in the Cowichan Valley!!
John and Elaine Lichtenwald
THE BELL MCKINNON LOCAL AREA PLAN to help shape development
Concept Framework
1. Program/Staging
2. Land Use & Links
3. Building Type & Form
APPENDIX 4 TO SCHEDULE "A", BYLAW 3900, 2022: ACRONYMS
List of Acronyms:
ALC: Agricultural Land Commission ALR: Agricultural Land Reserve
BC: British Columbia
CAEP: Climate Action and Energy Plan CAP: Climate Action Plan
CD: Comprehensive Development
CMHC: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
CO2: Carbon Dioxide
CPR: Canadian Pacific Railway
CPTED: Crime Prevention through Environmental Design
CVRD: Cowichan Valley Regional District
CVT: Cowichan Valley Trail
DAIA: Development Approval Information Area
DCC: Development Cost Charges
DFO: Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
DPA: Development Permit Area
DRIPA: Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
E&N: Esquimalt and Nanaimo rail corridor
ERU: Equivalent Residential Unit
ESA: Environmental Sensitive Area
FUS: Fire Underwriter Survey
GHG: Greenhouse Gas
Ha: Hectare
IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
JUB: Joint Utility Board
LAP: Local Area Plan
MNC: Municipality of North Cowichan
MTP: Master Transportation Plan
MWR: Municipal Waste Regulation
OCP: Official Community Plan
RAPA: Riparian Area Protection Act
RCMP: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
STP: Sanitary Treatment Plant
SWMP: Solid Waste Management Plan
TRC: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
UBCM: Union of British Columbia Municipalities
UCB: Urban Containment Boundary
UNDRIP: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples UVic: University of Victoria
VIU: Vancouver Island University