Vancouver council votes to hike development-related fees

Vancouver city council voted Tuesday to endorse a staff recommendation to significantly hike the fees they charge for rezoning, development and building permits.
Staff have said the costs to process permit applications have not been recovered by fees. In essence, work that developers should be paying for was being paid for by taxpayers, Coun. Raymond Louie said.
Louie said after Tuesday’s council meeting there simply was no other alternative, given that construction isn’t s