CITY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE
BYLAW C-1027
A Bylaw to provide for the Classification
of Assessed Property
WHEREAS Section 297 of the Municipal Government
Act, being Chapter M-26.1 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1994, as
amended, (herein referred to as "the Act") provides that a Council
may provide for the classification of assessed property for
purposes of establishing tax rates against different classes of
assessed property;
NOW THEREFORE THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE, DULY ASSEMBLED, ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. Title
This bylaw may be cited as the "City of Grande
Prairie Classification of Assessed Property Bylaw".
2. Definitions
For the purposes of this bylaw words shall have
the same meaning as under the Act and the following words shall
have the following meanings:
a) "Apartment building" means a building
comprised of four or more dwelling units with shared entrance
facilities;
b) "Condominium" means an apartment
building, townhouse complex, office building, retail building or
warehouse building containing units that are individually
owned;
c) "Duplex" means a building designed and
built to contain two dwelling units, one above the other, each
having a separate entrance and not attached to any other
residential building;
d) "Farm building" means any improvement
other than a residence, to the extent it is used for farming
operations, as defined in the provincial regulations;
e) "Farm land" means land used for
farming operations, as defined in the provincial regulations;
f) "Fourplex" means a building comprised
of four dwelling units each unit having a separate direct entrance
from grade or landscaped area;
g) "Linear property" means electric power
systems, street lighting systems, telecommunications systems and
pipelines, as defined in the Act;
h) "Machinery and equipment" has the
meaning given to it in the provincial regulations;
i) "Mixed use building" means a building
used partly for residential purposes and partly for other
purposes;
j) "Manufactured home" means any
structure, whether ordinarily equipped with wheels or not, that is
manufactured to meet or exceed the Canadian Standards Association
standard CSA Z240 and that is used as a residence or for any other
purpose;
k) "Mobile home" means a structure that
is designed to be towed or carried from place to place and that is
used as a residence or for any other purpose, but that does not
meet Canadian Standards Association standard CSA Z240;
l) "Modular home" means a home that is
constructed from a number of pre-assembled units that are intended
for delivery to and assembly at a residential site;
m) "Semi-detached dwelling" or "Side
by side duplex" means a building that is divided vertically
into two dwelling units separated from each other by walls extended
from foundation to roof and not attached to any other residential
building;
n) "Single-dwelling" means a building
containing one dwelling unit only and which is not attached to any
other building but shall not include a mobile home;
o) "Stacked housing" means a single
building comprised of five or more dwelling units and constructed
such that one or more dwelling units are located totally or
partially above another, and each dwelling unit may or may not have
a separate, direct entrance from grade or a landscaped area;
p) "Townhouse" or "Rowhouse" means
a multiple dwelling comprised of three or more dwelling units
separated from each other by walls extended from foundation to roof
with each dwelling unit having separate direct entrance from grade
and includes all row, length, patio, garden court or other housing
which meet those criteria;
q) "Triplex" means a building comprised
of three dwelling units each unit having a separate, direct
entrance from grade or landscaped area;
r) "Vacant residential land" means
land:
i) that is used for
purposes ancillary to a residence or is not used for any purpose,
and
ii) that is designated under the City's Land Use
Bylaw for residences as a permitted use and subdivided into
residential or country residential lots.
3. Classification of Assessed
Property
Assessed property in the City of Grande Prairie
is hereby classified as follows:
a) residential;
b) non-residential;
c) farm land;
d) machinery and equipment;
4. Further Classification of Residential
Property
"Residential property" means property
that is not classed by the assessor as farm land, machinery and
equipment or non-residential, and in the City of Grande Prairie is
hereby further classified into the following sub-classes:
a) Low Density Residential, which shall
include:
i) single dwellings;
ii) semi-detached dwellings;
iii) duplexes;
iv) triplexes;
v) fourplexes;
vi) manufactured homes, mobile homes or modular
homes;
vii) manufactured home parks or mobile home
parks;
viii) townhouses or rowhouses whether under
condominium plan or otherwise;
ix) apartment buildings or stacked housing under
condominium plan where at least 50% of the units are occupied by
the registered owners;
x) residential condominium units located within
an apartment building or stacked housing where occupied by the
registered owners;
xi) farm buildings;
xii) vacant residential land;
xiii) the parcel of land forming the site of any
of the structures listed in clauses 4(a)(i) through 4(a)(xi),
inclusive;
xiv) the residential portion of mixed use
buildings constructed as any of the structures listed in clauses
4(a)(i) through 4(a)(xi), inclusive;
b) Other Residential, which shall include:
i) apartment buildings or stacked housing,
whether under condominium plan or otherwise, excepting only
condominium units that come within the provisions of clauses
4(a)(ix) or 4(a)(x);
ii) the residential portion of mixed use
buildings, excepting those that come within the provision of clause
4(a)(xiv);
iii) any other residential buildings not listed
in clause 4(a);
iv) the parcel of land forming the site of any
of the buildings listed in clauses 4(b)(i) through 4(b)(iii),
inclusive.
5. Further Classification of
Non-Residential Property
"Non-residential property" means linear
property, components of manufacturing or processing facilities that
are used for the co-generation or power of other property on which
industry, commerce or another use takes place or is permitted to
take place under a land use bylaw passed by a council, but does not
include farm land or land that is used or intended to be used for
permanent living accommodation. Non-residential property in the
City of Grande Prairie is hereby further classified into the
following sub-classes:
a) vacant;
b) improved.
5. Bylaw C-937 is hereby repealed.
6. This bylaw shall come into force upon third
and final reading.
READ a first time this 1st day of May,
2000
"G. Graydon" (Signed)
MAYOR
"J. Ferguson" (Signed)
CITY CLERK
READ a second time this 15th day of
May , 2000
READ a third time and finally passed this
15th day of May, 2000
"G. Graydon" (Signed)
MAYOR
"A. Roth"
(Signed)
ACTING CITY CLERK