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Last year, Council eliminated development charges for houses less than 1200 square feet – as well as reducing charges for homes between 1200 and 1500 square feet.

Those changes seem to be working says Mayor Al McDonald as the numbers of building permits continues to outpace last year’s numbers.

 

McDonald says this is an encouraging sign and hopes it leads to more developments of this size.

He adds the latest figures show an 85% increase over last year’s permit numbers, which is a total construction value of $26, 600,000.

At this time last year the city was sitting at $14,400,000.