Typical Calgary infill townhouse includes $147K in extra regulatory costs: report
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The Calgary Inner City Builders Association (CICBA), the organization behind the report, is calling on candidates in the upcoming election to work with them to address the costs.
With the upcoming election less than one month away, a new report is highlighting additional costs that city regulations tack onto the price of an infill home in Calgary’s inner city communities.
The Calgary Inner City Builders Association (CICBA), the organization behind the report, is calling on candidates running for mayor and city council to work with them to shave down those costs.
The report, released Wednesday, found the regulatory cost to build an infill townhome is “disproportionately high” on a per-unit basis.
Using data from the last two years, CICBA found those costs total $146,098 per unit for an infill townhome, much higher than the $87,380 the regulatory costs add to a single-detached infill and the $47,688 added to the typical semi-detached infill.
“The worst part about these costs is you can’t eliminate them, but you can reduce them and you can look at different ways of doing that,” said Shameer Gaidhar, chair of CICBA. “But those costs get passed down to the end user.”
According to Gaidhar, the costs are broken down between additional construction to meet conditions on the development permit, as well as fees for on and off-site infrastructure.
However, Gaidhar said one of the biggest impacts is carrying costs during the approval process with infill townhome projects requiring a minimum of 225 days between permit applications and shovels going in the ground, but an appeal can extend that timeline to 265 days.
Single and semi-detached infills typically take 40 days, the report said.
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