Committee · Q3 2025
Planning & Development COW #06
Aug 19, 2025
Recorded present
Kimberly Smith · Harry Flaherty · Methusalah Kunuk · Simon Nattaq · Kyle Sheppard · Samuel Tilley
Recorded absent
Solomon Awa · Amber Aglukark · Romeyn Stevenson
DECISIONS AND ISSUES
- Committee recommended the Apex NHC modular-home land disposal.
- Committee recommended separate $56,151.50 Uquutaq and $28,902.15 Pinnguaq development-charge exemptions.
- Four quarry permits advanced with a new $7.50-per-cubic-metre extraction fee.
DOCUMENTED QUESTIONS · WRITTEN MINUTES
Could council control what NHC constructed on the vacant Apex lot?
- Answer recorded
- Planning said the lot was too small for a ballot, was intended for public housing and could fit a smaller prefabricated three-bedroom unit.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Would a partial development-charge exemption for Uquutaq set a precedent?
- Answer recorded
- Planning pointed to Uquutaq's non-profit rental purpose and lack of profit generation.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
When would Uquutaq build, and could the decision wait for a possible federal development-charge program?
- Answer recorded
- Planning said Uquutaq aimed for 2027, federal details were unknown and payment was a development-permit condition.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Were funds budgeted for the City to cover the remaining development charge?
- Answer recorded
- Planning said development charges fund capital projects and that various sources offset those projects, without identifying a specific budget line.
- Result or follow-up
- A specific funding source was not identified in the minutes.
Was the $7.50-per-cubic-metre extraction fee new?
- Answer recorded
- Planning said it was a new fee and the previous extraction fee had last been collected in 2017.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
What revenue was expected during the ten-month quarry permit?
- Answer recorded
- Planning said little extraction remained for the permit period but did not provide a dollar estimate.
- Result or follow-up
- No revenue estimate was recorded.
Would a company face a penalty for earlier non-compliance before receiving a quarry permit?
- Answer recorded
- Administration described notices, discussions and arrears checks, and said no arrears were owing, but did not record a separate penalty.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
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