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Fayetteville adopts phased user-fee increases; council authorizes seven staffing additions for development and engineering
Summary
After a city user-fee study, the council approved phased fee increases across water/sewer, planning, building and business licensing and approved seven new full-time positions in engineering and development services to improve turnaround times and enforcement.
Fayetteville City Council on Feb. 18 approved a package of ordinances and a resolution implementing recommendations from a user-fee study and authorized new staff to reduce review times and strengthen field inspections.
"The biggest takeaway from our user fee study is that we as a city have been subsidizing the development review process," Jonathan Kurth, Development Services, told the council. The consultant's review found fee recovery varied widely across departments; the city had not updated many fees in roughly two decades.
What the council approved - Ordinances changing water and sewer tap and connection fees, including new depth-based charges and consolidated line items; staff proposed phased implementation (C4). - Ordinance updates…
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