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Walla Walla County adopts higher building, planning and fire permit fees over commissioners' objections
Summary
The Walla Walla County Board of Commissioners on Dec. 22 approved Ordinance 506 to update community development fee schedules for building, fire and planning permits—changes the acting director says reflect staff time and overhead—by a 2–1 vote after debate over service quality and the scale of increases.
Walla Walla County commissioners on Monday adopted updated fee schedules for building, fire and planning permits in Ordinance 506, approving across-the-board increases the county says are needed to recover staff costs and overhead.
Acting Community Development Director Melissa Schumake told the board the proposal is based on detailed spreadsheets that account for staff time, benefits and the mix of reviewers involved in permit processing. "It's based on staff cost," Schumake said. "It includes benefits ... reevaluating the amount of time that different kinds of permits and projects take to process." She said…
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