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Laguna Hills adopts updated development user fee schedule after consultant review
Summary
After a consultant presentation and council questions, Laguna Hills adopted an updated development user fee schedule that modernizes fee structure, adds a technology surcharge for permit upgrades, includes a six‑month checkup and applies annual CPI adjustments; the vote was unanimous.
Laguna Hills City Council voted unanimously April 8 to adopt an updated comprehensive user fee schedule for development, building, planning and select city services following a presentation by a consultant and questions from council members.
Consultant Jeff Wakefield told the council the study’s central goal was to “make sure that all of the development user fees for engineering, building and planning don't exceed the actual cost of providing the services,” and described a methodology that multiplies fully burdened hourly rates by average time estimates for each task. Wakefield said the consultant recommended converting many deposit/time‑and‑materials charges to flat fees to…
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