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West Sacramento updates community development fees to better reflect service costs
Summary
Council adopted changes to the Community Development 'book of fees' after a cost‑of‑service study that found many permit categories were underrecovering city costs; staff will publish an online fee estimator and update fees annually.
The West Sacramento City Council on Aug. 20 adopted updates to the Community Development Department’s book of fees to align user charges with the city’s cost of providing planning, building, engineering and code enforcement services.
Andrea Alisher, director of community development, said the city engaged Matrix Consulting to perform a bottom‑up cost‑of‑service study, the first comprehensive…
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