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Council raises building and planning fees after staff analysis; increases modest and aimed at cost recovery
Summary
Council approved an ordinance increasing selected building permit and planning application fees to better align charges with staff time and comparable municipalities; increases were modest and staff emphasized fees remain competitive.
City Council approved a set of changes to the city’s building-permit and planning-application fee schedules, increasing several plan-review, inspection and petition fees to better reflect current staff costs and comparable rates in similar coastal municipalities.
What changed: Building fees were adjusted to raise roughly $183,000 in estimated revenue—about 2.4% of the department’s annual…
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