• Belleville council to apply for development charge reduction program

    Belleville council to apply for development charge reduction program
    Belleville city council rolled the dice in a special meeting Monday before voting to apply for a new $8.8 billion federal-provincial program calling for municipalities to slash development charges to spur on new housing across Ontario.But whether the city will cash in when the political roulette wheel stops is entirely unknown ahead of a deadline of June 19 to apply for what’s known as the Development Charge Reduction Program (DCRP) program, council heard.In that program, Prime Minister M

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