HamiltonFees & ChargesDevelopment Charges
Consolidated By-law No. 24-072
Published by City of Hamilton
This is the City of Hamilton’s document, as published on its website on 19 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- By-law
- Published by
- City of Hamilton
- Date
- June 1, 2026
- Also called
- 2024 Development Charges Consolidated By-law 24-072
- Form reference
- Development Charges Act, 1997
- For
- any
- Signed by
- mayor · acting city clerk
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 52
- Instruments
- Development Charges Act, 1997 · Ontario Regulation 82/98
Overview
The City of Hamilton's by-law respecting development charges on lands within the city, By-law No. 24-072, in an office consolidation updated June 1, 2026. Its opening table lists the amendments folded in: 24-213 adding studies, 25-157 and 26-088 creating temporary partial exemptions and exempting non-profit housing, and 25-202 exempting non-profit child care centres. It sets out exemptions, redevelopment credits, deferral agreements, indexing and rate determination, repeals By-law 19-142, and carries schedules of full-rate city-wide, wastewater, water, stormwater and special area charges with boundary and sewer-system maps.
What it covers
- Schedules
- Lands Affected
- Phasing and Amount of Charge
- Designation of Services / Class of Services
- Approvals for Development
- Calculation of Development Charges
- Development Charge Applicability
- Industrial Development Exemptions
- Other Exemptions from Development Charges
- Downtown CIPA Partial Exemption
- Other Partial Exemptions
- Rules with Respect to Redevelopment – Demolitions
- Rules with Respect to Redevelopment – Conversions
- Temporary Buildings or Structures
- Collection of Development Charges
- Prepayment or Deferral Agreements
- Credit for Services-in-lieu Agreement
- Front-Ending Agreements
- Indexing
- Reserve Fund Report
- When Amount of Development Charge is Determined
- Overpayments and Underpayments
- Temporary Partial Exemptions
- Date By-law Effective
- Date By-law Expires
- Repeal
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