Residential development charges

Development charges, the fees municipalities levy on new development, are set municipality by municipality with little consistency, which makes them almost impossible to compare across the country. As part of NASH+, Curbcut assembled the first pan-Canadian dataset of residential development charges, covering hundreds of municipalities across every province.

Curbcut built the methodology, schema, and collection workflow to harmonize how each municipality structures and reports its charges, turning a fragmented patchwork into a single comparable dataset that can feed housing models and policy analysis.