The general principle is that the council analyses a 10-year window of the capital expenditure constructed in anticipation of growth, and funds the growth component over the capacity uptake period of new capital projects as they relate to growth or 30 years, whichever is lesser.
The process to determine appropriate development contributions charges requires an understanding of :
- Project purposes in respect of meeting the council’s strategic needs as defined in the Long Term Council Community Plan (LTCCP), activity planning, and council contributions to Community Outcomes.
- The levels of service delivered by the project. Principally the tactical levels of service that define the nature of and need for service capacity.
Based on the levels of service measures delivered by the project, the process determines cost allocations between existing and growth communities.
These cost allocations are achieved by considering key aspects that need to be brought together in a coordinated manner, they include:
- Determining Levels of Service
- Conversion of growth models into demand assessments
- Determining Units of Demand - particularly non-residential demands
- Determining the land acquisitions and infrastructure works necessary to support the anticipated demand, including past expenditures incurred in anticipation of development
- Phasing the acquisitions and works to match, where possible, the anticipated development
- Catchment considerations - including: local and community wide shares
- Determining cost allocations to growth, backlog and renewal
- Consideration of the range of sources of funding
- Funding allocations including the other costs of the capital expenditure
- The views and preferences of groups and individuals who may be affected or interested in this work
- A wide array of other considerations that are required to support a robust development contributions policy implementation.
The proposed 2009 Schedule of Charges is based on historic growth projects to date and those of the draft City Plan 2009-2024 falling within the plan’s first 10 years from July 2009 to June 2019.
You may wish to read more details about cost allocation and funding requirements as required under the Local Government Act 2002. All relevant documents are displayed or linked from this site.
