A recommendation to waive almost $1 million in development charges for a hotel development at the former Parliament Oak School site in Niagara-on-the-Lake has ruffled Niagara Region’s corporate services committee.

Debate on the matter ended with a majority of committee members voting to override regional staff’s position on collecting development charges from the developer, Two Sisters Resorts Corp., for the second level of an underground parking garage.

The full regional council needs to ratify the decision Thursday.

“Why don’t we ask the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake to pay it?” St. Catharines Coun. Brian Heit told the corporate services committee during a meeting earlier this month. “Could that be a solution? Or can we plant a money tree?

“We already know we don’t have enough money pu

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