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County planner briefs commissioners on 1980 resolution giving city code authority in fringe area; fee impacts noted, no action taken
Summary
Planning and Zoning Administrator John Kinsey told county commissioners on Jan. 27 that a 1980 county resolution gives the City of McPherson authority to enforce building and related codes in a fringe area and presented a fee schedule that could modestly raise permit costs for applicants in that zone.
Planning and Zoning Administrator John Kinsey briefed the McPherson County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 27 about a 1980 county resolution that allows the City of McPherson to enforce building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical codes in a defined fringe area around the city.
Kinsey showed a map that he said roughly corresponds with an A-2 zone that previously surrounded the city and described the resolution area as extending about one-and-a-half miles and cutting between local streets (his map referenced Mohawk and Navajo streets and Twelfth to Eighteenth avenues). Kinsey said the city now administers building-code enforcement in the marked subdivision regulation area and that the county could either leave the arrangement as is or consider updating the resolution.
Kinsey also provided the board a city fee schedule and described how applying the city's fees to county permits in that area would affect applicants. He calculated that, under the city's fee spreadsheet, residential single-family permits would increase roughly $0.45 to $0.57 per square foot, and business/commercial permits would increase about $0.49 to $0.73 per square foot, depending on valuation and modifiers Kinsey used in his example. He proposed an administrative workflow under which the county would accept a zoning permit, instruct the applicant to obtain a city building permit within 30 days, and transmit the county permit to the city electronically; if the applicant failed to obtain the city permit in 30 days, Kinsey said the county could revoke the zoning permit until corrected.
Commissioners asked for time to review the resolution text and the fee-schedule calculations. Kinsey noted the county resolution dates from 1980 and that the city's building code edition has been updated since then; he suggested staff could work with the county counselor to prepare a draft resolution or amendment if the board chose to pursue a change. The board took no formal action on the matter at the Jan. 27 meeting and deferred further review.
Ending: Commissioners said they would take time to review Kinsey's materials and discuss next steps at a later meeting before making any changes to the county resolution or administrative procedures.
