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Council adopts immediate increase to building and planning fees; staff presented multiyear phase-in alternatives
Summary
After a public hearing and consultant presentation, the council voted to immediately raise planning and building fees to improve cost recovery. Staff had recommended a three-year phase-in but the council adopted the immediate adjustment.
The Garden Grove City Council voted to adopt an immediate adjustment to building and planning fees after a public hearing and a consultant’s presentation on the city’s cost-recovery gap for permitting services.
The action matters because the fee changes are intended to recover the cost of plan review and permitting services that the city currently subsidizes from its general fund; staff and the consultant estimated about $1.7 million in under-recovery across the fee portfolio.
Consultant Terry Madsen of Clear Source Financial explained the legal and practical framework for regulatory fee setting in California and presented results of a city-specific study and a…
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