Daily Poll: Do you support the city's permit fee increases for builders?
The city of Vancouver plans to hike the fees it charges to issue rezoning, development and building permits.
The increases would range from 12 per cent to 35 per cent and begin in January 2019. The hope is that an extra $7.9 million would be generated to recover city costs of processing the permit applications.
Some fees would go up by just a few dollars (for example, permits for minor repairs to a heritage building would rise to $71.70 from $64), but others would see increases in the thousands
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