E N Transportation Corridor Development Cost Charge

Whereas the Esquimalt and Nanaimo E N Corridor is publicly owned; a critical transportation and utility corridor for Vancouver Island intended to help alleviate congestion on our major roads; and where 90 of the Islands population lives, works and recreates within a 5km distance from the corridor; And whereas Island municipalities would need to supplement the costs of a transportation service in this corridor given that it would not be fully sustained solely by taxes, grants, passenger fares andor railway revenue: Therefore be it resolved that the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities petition the Province of British Columbia to amend legislation enabling Vancouver Island municipalities and regional districts to collect development cost charges for the purpose of constructingaltering transportation service on the E N Corridor.