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Shelby council removes plan-review application fee in health-fees ordinance after discussion
Summary
The Shelby City Council voted to remove the plan-review application fee from the city code’s health division fees (listed in the ordinance under review) after council members and staff said the fee was not necessary; the ordinance passed third reading with a roll-call vote.
The Shelby City Council voted to amend city fee rules by removing the plan-review application fee from the municipal health-division fee schedule and approved the ordinance on third reading.
Council members debated the size and structure of plan-review fees earlier in the meeting while reviewing changes to Chapter 276 (Division of Health) that include licensing and approval fees for food-service and body-art businesses. Councilmember Martin proposed treating smaller construction projects differently—suggesting projects under $100,000 receive a reduced or waived plan-review fee and larger projects pay a higher bracket—while Councilmember Oz and others discussed sample figures (one suggestion floated was $50 for small projects and $150 for larger ones).
City staff representative (Ms. Olsen) was not present at the meeting; the council reported that Olsen, when contacted, said removing the plan-review application fee would not be problematic. With that guidance, Councilmember Martin moved to amend the ordinance by striking the plan-review application (subsection 5) and renumbering subsequent subsections. Councilmember Roberts seconded the amendment. The motion to amend passed on a roll call; later the ordinance on third reading (identified in the record as Order/Ordinance 29, 2024) passed its third reading.
The council did not adopt a final, tiered numerical schedule for future plan-review fees at this meeting; members said they want additional information about the workload and review costs before setting exact dollar amounts and that they could revisit fee levels after a period of implementation and review.
The amendment deletes the plan-review application item from the fee schedule (the transcript identifies the provision as subsection 5 of section 276.10) and instructs staff to renumber remaining subsections. No effective-date language for the fee removal was specified on the record.
Council members present who participated in the votes included Councilmember Martin and Councilmember Roberts; the roll call recorded additional yes votes from members identified in the record. The council indicated staff would provide follow-up information about review cost burdens and suggested bringing a more detailed fee schedule back to a future meeting for consideration.
