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Planning commission recommends FY26 fee schedule; adds fixed review fee for tower RF review
Summary
The commission voted unanimously to recommend the Community Planning Department’s draft fiscal-year 2026 user-fee schedule to the borough assembly. The department proposed a new fixed fee to cover radio-frequency review costs for communication-tower conditional-use reviews and kept most permits unchanged.
The Fairbanks North Star Borough Planning Commission on March 11 recommended the adoption of the Community Planning Department’s draft FY26 user-fee schedule to the borough assembly, voting 10-0.
Community Planning Director Kellen Spillman told commissioners the department’s annual review showed most fees would remain unchanged for FY26; the sole proposed change is a new fixed fee to cover third-party radio-frequency (RF) engineering reviews tied to conditional-use reviews for communication towers. Spillman…
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