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Mill Creek to raise and standardize development-review fees; staff proposes $175 hourly baseline
Summary
City staff proposed a citywide update to development-review fees tied to a single hourly cost basis ($175). The update would raise many planning, building and engineering permit fees and align Mill Creek more closely with peer cities; staff estimated the changes would have produced about $161,000 in additional revenue in 2024.
City planning staff on Oct. 7 presented a draft citywide development-fee update aimed at recovering staff costs, simplifying administration and bringing Mill Creek’s permit fees closer to regional peers.
Staff proposed moving to a single, staff-cost-based hourly rate for development-review tasks and setting a $175 hourly baseline. The department said using a single hourly basis would allow staff to update many fees annually by adjusting one metric, rather than amending dozens of fee lines individually.
Presenting the study, a staff member summarized the rationale: “Now is the time just to kind of, refresh things, and, hopefully, we can have a better functioning fee system moving forward.” Staff said the…
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