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Planning director presents cost‑based review of development fees; council to consider policy tradeoffs
Summary
Planning staff presented a time-and-cost analysis of development-review fees, estimating actual staff labor at roughly $45.70 per hour and showing a range of current fee recovery versus actual cost; staff asked council to provide policy direction on targeted cost-recovery levels and to request the full spreadsheet for review.
The town's planning director briefed council on a comprehensive review of development-fee schedules and actual staff time required to process permits and land‑use applications.
Director Green explained the approach: she calculated staff-hour costs using hourly wages plus benefits for each position, estimated typical task times for each permit type and built a spreadsheet to produce per-application actual-cost estimates. "The average for a planner in our shop is $45.70," Director Green said while presenting the method…
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