FAQs

Development cost charges (DCCs) are fees collected from developers on a user pay basis to help fund the cost of growth-related infrastructure, such as wastewater services and facilities. DCCs are regulated through the Local Government Act. The rates charged reflect the impact growth has on wastewater services; the larger the impact, the larger the charge. This helps ensure developers pay their fair share of the costs required to develop new infrastructure.

DCCs are paid by land developers. Developers pay DCCs instead of taxpayers who are not creating the demand and are not benefitting from the new infrastructure. Local municipalities are responsible for collecting the DCCs.

Wastewater services and facilities such as pollution control centers, pump stations and sewer line upgrades and maintenance.

Wastewater services and facilities operation and maintenance that are not related to population growth.

The Province suggests that local governments review their DCC’s every five years. The RDN’s wastewater service area DCC’s were last updated in 2017.

DCCs are calculated by dividing the cost of infrastructure attributed to new development by population growth over a period of time.