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1. Introduction

  • What are development contributions?
  • Application of development contributions
  • Relationship with financial contributions in the District Plan
  • Effective date
  • How to find your way around this policy

2. Application of the policy

  • How to calculate your development contribution
  • How to calculate the number of EHUs
  • Credit for EHUs for existing development
  • Schedule of development contributions
  • Additional information on assessing the development contribution payable
  • Remission and postponement
  • Refunds

3. Assessment & payment

  • Requirement
  • When the Council will require a development contribution
  • Powers of the Council if development contributions are not paid

4. Transitional provisions

  • Effective date
  • Amendments
  • Transitional provision for developments that applied for resource consent prior to 1 July 2005

5. Definitions

6. Maps of development contributions catchment areas

7. Basis for policy

  • Legislative requirements
  • Relationship with financial contributions in the District Plan
  • Summary of financial contributions

8. Planning for growth

  • Growth in Wellington City
  • Application of Equivalent Household Units (EHUs) as the unit of demand

9. Rationale for funding the costs of growth through development contributions

  • Legislative background
  • Community outcomes
  • Distribution of benefits and the extent to which particular individuals or groups contribute to the need to undertake an activity
  • Costs and benefits of funding the activity distinctly from other activities
  • Overall impact on community well-being

10. Capital expenditure in response to growth

  • Activities and catchments for which development contributions may be required
  • Growth-related capital expenditure
  • Capital costs already incurred in anticipation of growth
  • Use of development contributions

11. How development contributions have been calculated

  • LGA requirements
  • Significant assumptions

12. Application of methodology to specific activities

  • Citywide development contributions
  • Development contributions for specific catchment areas
  • Application of s101(3) LGA

Appendix A - Tables 1 - 4

  • Table 1 - Capital expenditure from LTCCP
  • Table 2 - Prior capital expenditure
  • Table 3 - Citywide development contributions
  • Table 4 - Specific catchment related development contributions

Appendix B - Methodology & Calulations

  • B1 Calculation of development contribution levies based on the methodology
    • B1.1 Introduction
    • B2.1 Citywide
    • B3.1 Water supply
    • B4.1 Wastewater
    • B5.1 Roading
    • B6.1 Reserves
    • B7.1 Community infrastructure - catchment based

Approved by Wellington City Council on 28 June 2005.
Revised 1 July 2007

 

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