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Port Orchard staff propose broad updates to permit and fee resolution, including new ADU, inspection and bond fees
Summary
City staff presented a proposed fee resolution that updates permit processing, adopts new basic-plan and preapproved ADU rules, adjusts building valuation, raises some inspection rates and adds administrative fees for performance bonds-in-lieu of construction.
Nick Bond, a city staff presenter, asked the finance committee on April 15 to review a proposed fee resolution that would adopt and update a wide range of Development and Community Development (DCD) and public-works fees before sending the resolution to city council.
Bond said the packet posted to the committee had a clean copy and that a red-line version of the 27-page exhibit was made available the same day. He told the committee the resolution does not change how the city calculates valuation-based permit fees, but it updates the building-valuation table to current International Code Council figures and adds or adjusts several discrete fees.
Key changes Bond described include: clarifying that permit payments are taken at the counter or online rather than by mail; extending “basic plan”…
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