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Consultants propose clearer fee‑waiver criteria, revised application fees and stronger graduated penalties
Summary
Consultants recommended objective criteria for administrative fee waivers (public benefit, comprehensive‑plan support, nonprofit status, staff error, hardship), proposed raising some application fees and per‑unit charges, and suggested higher civil penalties combined with a codified informal warning stage to encourage voluntary compliance.
Consultants presented proposed updates to application fees, fee‑waiver authority and civil penalties as part of the administrative provisions package. They reported benchmarking of five neighboring jurisdictions and recommended aligning several application fees and adding per‑unit charges (for subdivisions and multi‑unit projects) to better reflect staff time and public‑notice costs.
On fee waivers, the consultants proposed objective findings the decisionmaker must make before waiving an application charge: demonstrable public benefit (public facilities, infrastructure, community…
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