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EMPLOYMENT LANDS CAN’T BE LEFT OUT OF THE GROWTH CONVERSATION
11/7/2023
We desperately need more housing, but it’s not good for our long-term
sustainability to tackle the issue as housing at all costs.
Lack of housing opportunities is creating significant challenges and anxiety
among businesses and our community as a whole. We have already become too
expensive for some to live here and the problem seems to be getting worse.
It’s understandable that all levels of government are fixated on creating more
housing — as they should be. But we need to make sure we don’t lose perspective
of the vision our communities need for the future.
We need more employment lands to go along with our population growth or we risk
becoming an expensive bedroom community.
Not only will servicing more employment lands build a stronger local workforce,
but it offsets the tax burden placed on homeowners. Commercial and industrial
property owners in Peterborough pay 1.5 times the tax assessment rate of
residential homeowner. While they desperately need basic municipal services like
water and sewer — they use fewer services overall.
Municipalities can generate more revenue with fewer expenses while growing our
local economy by servicing employment lands.
But we have essentially run out of serviced employment lands. There are a few
pockets here and there, but local opportunities are slim. This is not just a
City problem — we need to approach this as a region. There is a long history on
this subject and it comes with a lot of baggage. It’s time to step back, look at
the bigger picture, and come back to the negotiating table with all options as
we try and work collaboratively to grow stronger as a region.
Currently, the City of Peterborough’s Official Plan is holding back much of
these negotiations from even starting. Section 6.1.7 a) states:
Municipal utility services, sanitary sewer and water supply shall not be
extended beyond the City boundaries, except in the case where such
infrastructure is to serve City owned facilities such as the Peterborough
Airport.
It does go on to provide a couple exemptions, but this statement is very
limiting to not allow the municipality to even consider servicing land not
within their boundaries or land they don’t own.
The City of Peterborough already has servicing agreements with the County and
several townships on services like long-term care, emergency medical services,
social services, and policing. Why is it a non-starter for water and sewer?
Municipalities across Canada have water and sewer shared service agreements,
enough so that the Federation of Canadian Municipalities offers a template
service agreement for municipalities to use. Providing water and sewer service
is expensive, but it’s not unreasonable to create a shared service agreement
that covers the costs of this and provides financial benefits to all parties.
The message this section of the Official Plan sends is that if you’re planning
to work out an agreement for serviced employment lands with the City of
Peterborough, you’re really negotiating the terms of having your land annexed.
Annexation may or may not be part of the solution. The same goes for serving
development outside city limits. The solution to our employment land shortage
will have to be negotiated collaboratively between all parties with the
understanding that it will benefit all, regardless of which municipality is
collecting the tax revenue.
The City of Peterborough is undergoing a review of its Official Plan. Much of
this review is focused on the back-and-forth between it and the Province to
create more housing. One consequence of this back-and-forth is the potential
loss of the few future serviceable employment lands within City limits.
Now is the time to rework the Official Plan and the Peterborough and Kawarthas
Chamber of Commerce is strongly urging the City of Peterborough to completely
remove section 6.1.7. We are advocating that both the City and the County work
together in good faith to create an employment lands agreement. This will open
more opportunities to build housing, create more property tax revenue, and grow
our local economy.
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