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Council reviews planning fee amendments and new administrative use permit fee to streamline permitting

5911174 · September 3, 2025
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Summary

City staff recommended eliminating select fee discounts and adding a $350 administrative use permit (AUP) fee to speed reviews and provide more certainty to applicants; council moved to adopt staff recommendations.

City planning staff told the Ukiah City Council on Sept. 3 that a proposed update to the planning and building fee schedule would remove certain fee discounts and add a $350 administrative use permit (AUP) application fee intended to speed reviews.

Clegg Schlatter, community development director, reviewed the multi‑year review of fees and the ad‑hoc committee work. Schlatter said the fee discounts in place historically amounted to "between a 20 and a 40% discount on planning permit fees" and that staff had not found evidence those discounts drove higher volumes of…

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