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Kissimmee staff recommend shifting development review fees to full cost recovery; commission advances proposal
Summary
City staff presented a Matrix Consulting Group update recommending that the city raise development review fees (now recovering about 30% of cost) toward full (100%) cost recovery, add or rename several fees, and index fees annually to CPI; the commission voted 3–0 to direct staff to draft a resolution.
Douglas Etheridge, development services assistant director for the City of Kissimmee, told commissioners at a Jan. workshop that a 2023 update to a 2015 Matrix Consulting Group study found the city recovers roughly 30% of development review costs and is subsidizing the remainder with general revenues. "Cost recovery should be 100%, not 30%," Etheridge said, summarizing the study's principal recommendation.
The study recommends several changes to bring fees closer to actual cost: add new fee lines (for inspections, notices, continuances and insufficient‑payment handling), consolidate and rename overlapping application categories, split fees by project complexity or size (for example, base fees plus…
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