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Committee reviews 2026 Community Development budget: fees, major projects and TIF updates
Summary
Committee members reviewed the Community Development Department’s proposed 2026 budget, which includes proposed fee increases for planning, assessor and inspection services, implementation of the Tyler Munis permitting system, ARPA spenddown activity, anticipated CDBG funding and updates on several tax incremental financing districts.
On Oct. 8, 2025 the Community Development Committee reviewed the department’s proposed 2026 budget, a presentation that covered major projects, proposed fee adjustments across planning and permit services, federal and state grant allocations, and status reports on multiple tax increment financing (TIF) districts.
The department highlighted several “big-ticket” items for 2026: continued planning and implementation work for the Thrive in Ballard community (referred to in discussion as Wilden Portfolio Park), comprehensive-plan implementation and zoning/code updates following the plan update, and the enterprise permitting conversion to the Tyler Munis web-based system intended to replace the AS/400 permitting processes. Staff also noted ARPA-funded projects remain in implementation and must be closed out by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s ARPA spend-down deadline in 2026.
Staff told the committee the assessor plans about…
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