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Clear Lake council holds first reading to let fees be set by resolution after wide debate over fire mitigation charges
Summary
At a public hearing March 21, councilors heard a nexus study recommending higher fire mitigation fees to pay for new stations and apparatus; after hours of questions and public comment the council voted unanimously to approve a first reading to let future fee rates be set by council resolution and scheduled a second reading for April 4.
Clear Lake — The City Council held a public hearing March 21 on proposed changes to Clear Lake Municipal Code section 3‑5 and on a county fire district’s nexus study recommending higher fire mitigation fees for new development.
Consultant Dimitri Semenov presented the study’s capacity‑based analysis and said the district estimated about $37 million in existing and planned facility and apparatus costs and recommended base fees of $1.89 per square foot for residential (administrative surcharge to $1.93) and $2.36 per square foot for nonresidential (to $2.41), plus a 50¢/sqft high‑impact surcharge for very large footprints or 3‑story-plus buildings. Semenov said the analysis began by correcting the county parcel dataset for undercounted square footage (manufactured homes and some…
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