The BC Government has amended s. 6.9 of the Strata Property Regulation to allow strata corporations to impose fixed rate and variable user fees for the use of common property and common assets. The amendment implicitly confirms that strata may impose user fees for the consumption of utilities.  Many commercial and mixed-use stratas have been imposing user fees for the consumption of utilities for some time. The common practice is to amend the strata’s bylaws to require a unit owner to pay a user fee for the consumption of the utility based on periodic meter readings. The new regulation endorses this practice and establishes non-exhaustive set factors that a strata may use to impose such user fees including:    Read the article……………….