Three types of development charges within the City are imposed under a number of by-laws. They are:
You may be required to pay development charges for any residential or non-residential development if you are:
The City of Markham also collects regional development charges and education development charges. The City sends the non-City charges to the Region of York, the York District School Board and the York Catholic District School Board. Each region or board sets its own development charges and makes its own exemptions.
Subdivisions pay some of the charges when they execute the subdivision agreement. The rest is paid at the building permit stage. You must pay all development charges before you can get a building permit
The City wants to make sure that development charges are applied fairly. Some areas benefit from specific services and infrastructure and pay a special charge.
Landowners who build services for the City can enter into a credit agreement with the municipality and receive a reduction on the area charge.
Your charges depends on:
City of Markham Development Charges are updated on January 1st and July 1st of each year. They change according to the Statistics Canada Non-Residential Construction Price Index.
The following provides a summary as to when development charge rates typically change each year, in accordance with the current by-laws. Note these dates are for reference purposes only, and may be subject to change.
January 1st – Semi-annual indexing of City of Markham rates
June 17th – Rate phase-in of City and Regional rates in accordance with Bill 23 the More Homes Built Faster Act
July 1st – Indexing of City and Region rates; Some Education development charge rates are phased-in, in accordance with the education development charge by-laws
November 8th – Indexing of GO Transit rates
You can see Markham's current development rates in the next section of this page.