MarkhamFees & ChargesCommunity Benefits Charge
By-law 2022-48: A By-law to Establish Community Benefits Charges
Published by City of Markham
This is the City of Markham’s document, as published on its website on 18 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 Markham
- Date
- May 31, 2022
- Also called
- 2022-48
- Form reference
- section 37 of the Planning Act
- For
- builder
- Signed by
- City Clerk · Mayor
- Building types
- All building types
- Instruments
- Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13 · Building Code Act, 1992 · Condominium Act, 1998 · Ontario Regulation 509/20
Overview
The City of Markham's By-law 2022-48, which establishes the Community Benefits Charge under section 37 of the Planning Act, passed May 31, 2022 and consolidated to June 2023 to include Ontario Land Tribunal Order OLT-22-004424. It defines terms such as Gross Floor Area and Value of the Land, sets the charge at 4% of the land's value for buildings of five or more storeys with ten or more residential units, and covers when the charge is calculated and paid, phasing, in-kind contributions and a five-year review.
What it covers
- Definitions
- Applicable Lands
- Application of By-law
- Amount of Charge
- Timing of Calculation and Payment
- Exemptions
- In-kind Contributions
- Review
- Short Title
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