Weber County surveyor proposes higher subdivision review fees, shifts monument work to cities

Weber County surveyor's office staff on April 14 asked commissioners to approve a series of code and fee changes intended to cover rising review costs for subdivision plats and to alter how the county handles monument improvement agreements with cities.

The proposal would change how the county charges for final local entity plats (from a flat fee to charging per sheet), raise the basic final-plat review fee and per-lot charges, and remove monument construction and escrow services from county interlocal agreements — instead offering a paid verification visit for monuments at $150 each.

The changes matter because surveyor staff say current fees do not cover the time and hourly rates needed to do technical plat reviews. Steve Collier of the surveyor's office told commissioners that new development patterns, including Infrastructure Financing Districts (IFDs), have increased staff workload and altered how plats arrive for review. Collier said, "So the IFD is the Infrastructure Financing District, kind of a spinoff from the Public Infrastructure Financing District, except no longer allows the governing body to approve or dictate anything." He argued those structures mean some plats now cover multiple, noncontiguous…