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Watertown reduces building permit fee for Codington County detention facility; county projects expected to break ground this summer
Summary
The council approved a staff recommendation to collect $10,000 at permit issuance for Codington County’s $30 million detention facility rather than the city’s full commercial permit amount; county commissioner said design is nearing construction documents with a hoped-for July groundbreaking.
The City of Watertown Council voted to accept a staff recommendation to collect $10,000 at permit issuance for the Codington County detention facility project, rather than charging the full commercial building-permit amount from the city's fee schedule.
Community Development Manager Hinton told the council the project valuation is roughly $30 million and that, under the city’s commercial fee schedule (including plan-review fees), the permit fee would have been about $140,000. "So what staff is presenting to council… would be that we would collect $10,000 at the time that the building permit is ready to be issued because staff feels confident that that will cover administrative costs for the staff's…
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