Edmonton council still digging into cost of city policy on projects

Why are immoderate projects much costly successful Edmonton?

Some assembly members are inactive looking for the basal origin of that issue.

Back successful June, metropolis assembly asked medication for a outgo analysis, comparing superior projects to akin ones successful adjacent cities.

One examination was betwixt the caller net-zero Windermere occurrence presumption and Leduc’s Station No. 9.

The study shows Edmonton’s presumption outgo astir 3 times much per quadrate metre.

“I tin archer you it’s conscionable not adding up,” Coun. Tim Cartmell said.

The study finds metropolis policies and bylaws — combined with extracurricular factors similar proviso chains — thrust up expenses.

Twelve metropolis policies are listed arsenic outgo drivers successful the report.

But however overmuch fiscal load each argumentation carries is inactive unclear — that breakdown is not included successful these findings.

“It conscionable does not marque consciousness that immoderate of these things are much costly than others without that wide knowing of wherever each argumentation adds to the outgo and we inactive don’t person that,” Cartmell said.

“Are determination different policies that are not arsenic effective? Are they redundant? I deliberation that’s what we request to revisit,” Mayor Amarjeet Sohi said.

Mayor and assembly anticipation that becomes much wide aft its latest directive.

Committee has told medication to analyse however overmuch each portion of a task costs, including the policies. That study is expected successful the spring.