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Edmonds council directs attorney to draft ordinance updating business license fees and dropping scaled floor-plan requirement
Summary
After weeks of discussion about revenue options, the Edmonds City Council voted to have the city attorney draft an ordinance that raises origination fees by a 49.5% inflation factor from 2017 and removes the current requirement that applicants submit a scaled floor plan with their business license application.
The Edmonds City Council on May 13 directed the city attorney to draft an ordinance updating the city's business license fee structure to reflect a 49.5% inflation adjustment from 2017 and to remove the application requirement that businesses submit a scaled drawing of their floor plan.
The motion, made by Councilmember Payne and approved by a 5-2 vote, follows a multipage staff presentation from Clerk Passi outlining the city's flat-fee business license program, its partnership with the State's Business Licensing Service (BLS) since 2019 and comparisons with neighboring jurisdictions.
Clerk Passi told the council Edmonds collected roughly $250,000 in business license revenue in 2024 from about 4,169 license applications and that the city's flat fees have not been…
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