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    Strategic Advantages

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    Norfolk County has several strategic advantages for a business thinking relocating or an entrepreneur planning a startup:

    • Competitive real estate prices
    • Development charges waived for industrial buildings
    • Rich agricultural history
    • Scenic coastline with vast opportunity for development
    • Rapidly growing and diverse tourism industry
    • Generous incentive programs
    • Direct link to Hwy 403 via Hwy 24
    • Local colleges for skills development
    • Diverse business base
    • Relaxing rural life

    Development Charge exemptions

    In Norfolk County, several types of development are exempted from any development charges to encourage these uses in our communities.

    These exemptions, in some cases, can amount hundreds of thousands of savings for developers:

    • Industrial (manufacturing, producing, processing, storing or distributing, etc.)
    • Roofed overnight accommodation (hotels, motels, inns, bed & breakfast, guest houses, and time share tourist-oriented condominiums)
    • Brownfield redevelopment (abandoned, idled or underutilized industrial and commercial properties)
    • Development within Central Business Districts
    • Farming business and farm help house
    • Affordable housing
    • Outdoor parking lot at grade or parking garage above or below grade
    • Temporary structures
    • Place of worship

    See Norfolk County By-Law 2014-105 for details and definitions

     

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