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Building and Zoning Services budget adds code enforcement staff, registries and expedited review to speed housing projects
Summary
Director Scott Messer told Columbus City Council that the Building and Zoning Services 2025 budget combines permit fee (Development Services Fund) and general fund dollars to finance licensing, weights and measures, code enforcement and efforts intended to accelerate housing production.
Scott Messer, director of Building and Zoning Services, told the council's housing, homelessness and building committee on Jan. 21 that the department's operating plan for 2025 is a hybrid of permit‑fee revenue (the Development Services Fund) and general fund support for newly transferred divisions.
Messer said the department will have a FY2025 budget of roughly $44.7 million, with about $10.5 million from the general fund supporting licensing, weights and measures and the code enforcement division and approximately $34 million coming from the Development Services Fund that is…
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