Building activity for the first three months of 2025 revealed

The building activity in Amherstburg for the first three months of this year has been announced.

A report from chief building official Angelo Avolio that appeared before town council at the May 12 meeting showed information on permits that have been issued and paid. 

“There has been a significant amount of application submitted late 2024 due to the increase in development charges in 2025,” Avolio stated in his report. 

Avolio stated the building department has issued 50 permits with approximate construction value of $10 million for the first three months of 2025. He said this consists of five single family dwellings, four semi-detached units, one townhouse unit and five addition dwelling units. 

“There were several commercial and institutional permits issued,” added Avolio.

One permit each was issued for new buildings for commercial or institutional purposes. When it relates to alterations or additions, there was one permit each for commercial, industrial and institutional purposes and two for agricultural.

Avolio also pointed out that in comparison to 2024 activity, there were 53 permits issued last year at a construction value of $12 million. He called it “very minimal change in comparison.”

“With the uncertainty in the economy and the global conditions we are expecting to be a slow but steady construction season,” he wrote in his report.

Avolio added the building department added that collected revenues for all the permits during the first three months of this year are approximately $166,000. A total of approximately $254,000 in development charges were collected.

“The construction value is not related to the assessment value provided by MPAC, at this time MPAC is still using 2016 property valuation data to provide property tax assessment values. There can be a delay of up to two years after the homes in a development are sold or increases in home values from additions before the assessment values are updated by MPAC,” he stated. “This creates a lag in the timing of increases to the town’s overall assessment growth and collection of the property taxes for this period. Once these values are updated the town recovers the property taxes for the previous periods.”

Building activity for the first three months of 2025 revealed

By Ron Giofu