Key dates

Planning and Development Services provided the following update:

• An Off-site Levy Advisory Committee has been created and will have its first meeting in late January 2025. 
• The committee is a mix of developers, consultants, relevant stakeholders and City staff.
• A scope of work will be prepared in early 2025 with the Advisory Committee.

Development Engineering provided the following OSL update: announced first Off-Site Levy Advisory Committee (OSL AC) meeting to take place on January 30^th, 2025, and BILD was identified as a member of the committee.

• Reviewed the Terms of Reference for the Committee
• Group Discussion – main takeaways from the Committee’s feedback were concerns around what OSL’s pay for, how projects are determined, estimated, allocated to benefitting areas, staged, managed, tracked and who pays for what.

PPT - OSL Advisory Meeting - Jan 30, 2025

Final Minutes - Off-Site Levy Advisory Committee Meeting - Jan 20, 2025

Committee Action Item:

Offsite Levy Bylaw update forecasted for Q4 2025. Planning and Development Services continues to meet with developers to reach consensus on an Offsite Levy Bylaw that is fair and meets everyone’s needs.

Committee Action Item:

Offsite Levy Bylaw update continues to be forecast for completion Q4 2025.

• Review of the Terms of Reference
• Ratification of the Terms of Reference
• OSL Advisory Committee Chair Selection – John Popoff
• Review of legislation covering OSL’s
• General Overview of OSL’s
• Alternatives to OSL’s
• Creation of a Principles Statement to guide the Committee’s review and development of a revised OSL process.

Agenda - Off-Site Levy Advisory Committee Meeting - Mar. 18 2025.pdf

OSL Committee Meeting PPT Presentation - Mar 18, 2025.pdf

 Adopted Minutes -Off-Site Levy Advisory Committee Meeting - Mar 18, 2025.pdf

Committee Action Item:

Offsite Levy Bylaw update continues to be forecast for completion Q4 2025.

Committee Action Item:

Offsite Levy Bylaw update remains on schedule for a Q4 2025 update.

Development Engineering provided the following update: 

That the OSL AC is organized and will meet regularly with the City’s consultant, Urban Systems. The entire framework is anticipated to take approximately 1 to 1.5 years

• Introduction to Consultants
• Provide summary of the project, purpose, outcomes and schedule (Phase 1)
• Provide overview of expected future phases
• Terms of Reference adopted

Agenda - Off-Site Levy Advisory Committee Meeting - May 29, 2025.pdf

Urban Systems PPT Presentation to OSLAC - May 29, 2025.pdf

Adopted Minutes -Off-Site Levy Advisory Committee Meeting - May 29, 2025.pdf

Committee Action Item:

Offsite Levy Bylaw update remains on schedule for a Q4 2025 update.

• Workshop hosted by Urban Systems
• Development of an Infrastructure Delivery Philosophy
  • Project Purpose
  • Approach
  • Perspective (What We Heard)
  • Roles/Alignment Exercise
  • Development of Process Principles
  • Next Steps

2025-07-28_OSLAC_Workshop1-SummaryR1.pdf

Committee Action Item:

Offsite Levy Bylaw update remains on schedule for a Q4 2025 update.

Managing Director provided the following update:

• Planning and Development Services is hosting an internal workshop on August 25, 2025, to review growth projections and infrastructure projects. 
• The next Off-Site Levy Advisory Committee workshop is scheduled for September 24, 2025, and September 25, 2025.
• The developers are engaged, and Planning and Development Services is listening and working with them.  Progress is being made in understanding what their needs are which fosters collaboration.

Review of Project Purpose, Project Phasing, Workshop Purpose and Expected Outcomes

• Confirm project scope
• Collected current projects and assumptions
• Identified further infrastructure requirements
• -Mapping and projected growth patterns

2025-08_25_CMH_WorkshopPresentation.pdf

2025-08-25_CMHWorkshopNotesFINAL.pdf

Planning shared the following update on the OSL project: 

PDS has engaged external experts (Urban Systems) as part of administrations efforts to work alongside the advisory committee in determining options and providing recommendations to Council. Reviewing growth projections and trends, developing a shared understanding of infrastructure projects tied to growth, and exploring considerations for funding tools and policy. Upcoming workshop and infrastructure delivery framework will be developed.

Response to Chamber Questions - September 2025.pdf

Infrastructure Funding Project Flow Chart.pdf

Response to Chamber Questions - September 2025.pdf

Infrastructure Funding Project Flow Chart.pdf

Director of Planning and Development provided the following update on the Infrastructure Funding Initiative:

• After stakeholder concerns raised at the 2024 public hearing, administration paused any new Off‑Site Levy recommendation and launched a broader Off‑Site Infrastructure Funding Initiative focused on water, sewer, storm and road infrastructure.
• An Advisory Committee was formed in early 2025, administration has completed a detailed review of projects, benefitting areas and financial records, and next steps include further committee workshops, ELT review and a Council briefing before drafting a new approach. 
• Communicated that, a commitment was made to Stakeholders that a recommendation for funding Off‑Site infrastructure would not be presented to Council for consideration, until all questions were answered, regardless of the effort necessary to find those answers.
•  It is expected that a new approach will be drafted in the first half of 2026.

The Project Manager provided a summary of the Infrastructure Funding Initiative to date and provided an overview of next steps, as well as provided a project timeline handout

DAP -Infrastructure Funding Initiative Update - October 22,2025.pdf

Workshop hosted by Urban Systems

Understanding Growth and Infrastructure Needs

• Overview of previous workshop
• Project process and task purpose
• Development-level considerations
• Understanding growth and infrastructure needs
• Exercise – sharing of growth and infrastructure needs information, growth assumptions and projects, infrastructure needs and timing
• Next steps

2025-11-24-OSLAC Workshop 2 Powerpoint.pdf

Growth Infrastructure Figures (Handouts).pdf

Committee Action Item:

• Staff is creating a new Bylaw based on Council request via stakeholder feedback.
•  Industry advisory group is actively engaged with administration evaluating options for calculating offsite infrastructure funding.
• Administration provided a timeline consisting of 4 phases with a targeted completion of Q4 2026.