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Planning and Development details impact-fee rules, permit trends and $5.3M permitting system upgrade
Summary
Planning and Development presented permit and impact-fee trends, constraints of Florida law, recruitment challenges and a board-approved $5.3 million upgrade to county permitting software to improve efficiency.
Planning and Development staff presented a budget overview to the Brevard County Board of County Commissioners on March 27, outlining permit and impact-fee trends, legal restrictions on fee use, workforce challenges and a planned technology upgrade to the department’s permitting system.
Presenter Billy Prasad told commissioners the department processes about 100 building permits daily, performs roughly 216 inspections a day and oversees about 77 employees. He said the department collects impact fees that largely pass through to other agencies and that about $80 million of the $108 million P&D budget are impact fees; removing those leaves roughly $28 million that funds day-to-day operations.
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