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Lee County building official proposes new valuation-based permit fees
Summary
The Lee County building official proposed adopting International Code Council valuation tables to recalculate permit fees; example calculations shown by staff would raise some permit charges and the committee asked staff to prepare ordinance language for the full board next month.
Joe, the county building official, told the committee that the building department processed 40 permits in November with a total valuation of $2,000,537 and collected $6,841.15 in permit fees. He proposed adopting the International Code Council (ICC) valuation tables to set permit fees based on square-foot construction valuations rather than the county’s current fee schedule.
The proposal would apply an ICC-derived valuation, subtract 25 percent (as a possible county adjustment) and then calculate a permit fee from that number, Joe said. He provided a sample project…
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