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City manager and planning director propose updated fee schedule, new permits and sign-removal charges
Summary
City staff presented an updated fee schedule that corrects inconsistencies, raises small fees to cover rising costs, adds permits (solar, special events, vacation/dedication) and proposes a sign-removal charge to recover enforcement costs.
City Manager Hall and Planning Director Brian Moore presented a draft update to the city’s fee schedule on Sept. 2, proposing modest increases to many permits, correcting several discrepancies in existing code, and adding new permit types and an enforcement charge for illegal signage. Moore said the last comprehensive update was in 2018 and that rising operational costs — postage, printing and materials — motivated the changes: “some of these were just added a $5 fee to just to kinda keep up with the inflation of the cost that we have,” Moore said. He identified a specific code discrepancy in ordinance 1290.23, which sets the penalty for work started without a permit at double the permit amount; the fee schedule currently…
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