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Council hears staff proposal to reduce SB9 ministerial lot-split fee
Summary
Staff proposed a new ministerial lot-split fee for SB9/SB450 permits based on lower staff time estimates, recommending $10,885 per application versus the parcel-map fee previously used (about $30,000). Council discussion focused on cost recovery and tracking actual staff hours.
City staff told the Cupertino City Council that recent changes in state law (SB9 and SB450) have produced a ministerial lot-split pathway that consumes substantially less staff time than traditional parcel maps, and staff recommended a new fee aligned to that workload.
Luke Connelly and Ben Fu, from the Community…
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