The budget will be before city council on Nov. 12.

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The city’s finance and corporate services committee has approved a budget direction that would limit next year’s property tax increase to 3.75 per cent. Article content

That includes up to 2.9 per cent for city-wide tax-supported services, the Ottawa Public Library and Ottawa Public Health, and between 2.9 and 6.5 per cent for the Ottawa Police Service. Article content Article content

On an average $410,000 house, the increases would add up to about $237.30, including about $166 in property tax increases, $25 for solid waste and $47.30 for water.

The direction also allows for a range of increases in a few cases, including a transit levy of between three and 15 per cent and transit fare increases between 2.5 and 7

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